Claudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin
Goldin in 2019
Born (1946-05-14) May 14, 1946 (age 78)
The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
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Education
ThesisThe Economics of Urban Slavery: 1820 to 1860 (1972)
Doctoral advisorRobert Fogel[1]
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WebsiteOfficial website
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Claudia Dale Goldin (born May 14, 1946) is an American economic historian and labor economist. She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University.[9][2] In October 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes”.[10] The third woman to win the award, she was the first woman to win the award solo.[9][11]

She is a co-director (co-directing with Claudia Olivetti and Jessica Goldberg) of the National Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) Gender in the Economy study group,[12] and was the director of the NBER's Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017.[3]

Goldin's historical work on women and the American economy is what she is best known for. Regarding that subject, her papers that have been most influential have been those about the impact of the contraceptive pill on women's career and marriage decisions, the education of women and men together in higher education, the history of women's pursuit of career and family, women's last names after marriage as a social indicator, the reasons most undergraduates are now women, and the new life history of women's employment.[13]

In 1990, Goldin became the first woman to be tenured in Harvard's economics department.[14] In 2013 she was the president of the American Economic Association.[2]

  1. ^ Lee, Tori (October 9, 2023). "UChicago alum Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize for research on gender and labor". University of Chicago. Retrieved October 9, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Bio for Claudia Goldin". scholar.harvard.edu.
  3. ^ a b "Who is Claudia Goldin, winner of Nobel Economics Prize 2023?". Hindustan Times. October 9, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Interview. Claudia Goldin" (PDF). harvard.edu. Retrieved March 13, 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Former Princeton Professor Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics". Princeton Alumni Weekly. October 9, 2023.
  6. ^ "IZA Prize in Labor Economics". IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. 2016. Archived from the original on September 8, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  7. ^ "The Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics: Nemmers Prize – Northwestern University". www.nemmers.northwestern.edu.
  8. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023". NobelPrize.org.
  9. ^ a b "Claudia Goldin '67 wins Nobel Prize in Economics | Cornell Chronicle". news.cornell.edu.
  10. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023". October 9, 2023.
  11. ^ Johnson, Simon; Ahlander, Johan (October 9, 2023). "Nobel economics prize goes to Claudia Goldin". Reuters – via reuters.com.
  12. ^ "Gender in the Economy - Advisory Board Members". NBER.
  13. ^ "Bio for Claudia Goldin". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
  14. ^ Alexander, Sophie M. (April 26, 2007). "Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics". The Harvard Crimson.