Sydnee Caldwell

Sydnee Caldwell is an assistant professor in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group at the Haas School of Business and an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. Caldwell’s research focuses on topics in labor and personnel economics. Caldwell received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019 and a BA in applied mathematics and economics from UC Berkeley in 2012. She is the 2019 winner of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research dissertation prize and was chosen as a participant in the 2019 Review of Economic Studies European Tour. Before joining UC Berkeley she was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England.

Expertise and Research Interests

• Personnel Economics
• Labor Economics
• Gender wage gap
• Applied Microeconomics

Selected Honors and Awards

Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow 2020-2021 Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow 2020-2021

W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Dissertation Award, First Prize 2019

Review of Economic Studies European Tour 2019

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2013-2018

Working Papers

• Outside Options, Bargaining, and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks Caldwell, S. & Harmon, N. (2019)
• Monopsony and the Gender Wage Gap: Experimental Evidence from the Gig Economy Caldwell, S. & Oehlsen, E. (2018)
• Outside Options in the Labor Market Caldwell, S. & Danieli, O. (2018)
• Tax Refund Expectations and Financial Behavior Caldwell, S., Nelson, S., & Waldinger, D. (2018)
• Uber vs. Taxi: A Driver’s Eye View Angrist, J., Caldwell, S., & Hall, J. (2019)

Education

• PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BA, Applied Mathematics, Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• Greatest Distinction, Highest Honors in Economics

Positions Held

At Haas since 2020

• July 2020 – present, Assistant Professor, Economic Analysis and Policy Group
• July 2020 – present, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Economics
• 2019 – 2020, Post-doctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
• 2012 – 2013, Senior Research Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of New York