Harvard Economist Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize In Economics

She identified key drivers of gender differences in the labor market.

Claudia Goldin

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has conferred the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin. She was honored for “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes” according to the announcement on Monday, October 9.

Goldin has conducted extensive research into the causes of the gender wage gap, as covered in this 2016 article from the archives. In 2021, she discussed that work on the Harvard Magazine podcast, “Ask a Harvard Professor.”

Harvard Magazine’s coverage of Goldin’s studies of labor markets include work on:

The Chronicle of Higher Education has also reported extensively on Goldin’s many findings and observations on academic issues” including:

Goldin was born in 1946 in New York City and earned her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1972.

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