Explore the life and work of Claudia Goldin, Nobel-awarded economist , known for her groundbreaking research on the gender gap in the labor market. Goldin is the third woman to receive the economics prize and the only female solo winner since it was first awarded in 1969. She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and former director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Development of the American Economy program. “ Claudia Goldin ’s pathbreaking research, deeply grounded in history yet hugely relevant to the present, is a model of what social science should be,” says Nobel laureate and New York ... The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 was awarded to Claudia Goldin "for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes" Claudia Goldin found that studying the history of women’s participation in the U.S. labor force required a bit of detective work. “When I first started working on this subject, I realized that most economic historians were studying child labor, or they were studying the labor of men,” said Goldin , the Henry Lee Professor of Economics. “But they didn’t really know what women were doing. And so that’s what I worked out.” Goldin , 77, would, in fact, provide the first comprehensive ...
