Sydnee Caldwell is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Department of Economics and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Caldwell’s research focuses on imperfect competition in the labor market and its relationship with inequality.  Methodologically her work combines experimental and quasi-experimental methods with large administrative datasets and surveys.  Her early work focused on the relationship between workers’ outside options and their wages.  Her recent work has explored the importance of worker-firm bargaining for wage inequality, including the gender pay gap, and on the relationship between workers’ beliefs about pay and their search behavior.

Caldwell has a PhD in Economics from MIT and a BA in Applied Mathematics and Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.  She received the W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award’s First Prize and was chosen as a participant in the 2019 Review of Economic Studies European tour.