Sydnee Caldwell is an assistant professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and an assistant professor of economics at UC Berkeley. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a senior research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Her research focuses on wage setting and competition in the labor market. She received her B.A. in applied mathematics and economics from UC Berkeley a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Funded Research
Authored by Sydnee Caldwell
Uncertainty about the size of annual tax refunds hinders the effectiveness of tax-based U.S. redistribution (opens in a new tab)
Blog APR 8, 2021
By: Sydnee Caldwell, Scott Nelson, Daniel Waldinger
Wage and employment implications of U.S. labor market monopsony and possible policy solutions (opens in a new tab)
Blog FEB 18, 2020
By: Sydnee Caldwell, Suresh Naidu
Sydnee Caldwell’s Working Papers
Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers APR 8, 2021
By: Sydnee Caldwell, Scott Nelson, Daniel Waldinger
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