Assistant Professor
Economic Analysis & Policy
Economist researching labor markets and personnel issues
About
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
- 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)
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
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
Presidential Grant
Russell Sage Foundation
with Marco Tabellinin08/01/2020
- Data & Decisions, MBA 200S
- Labor Economics, Econ 250B