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 pill’s long-term social and career consequences for young, single women who came of age in the years after its invention (2001);
- The difficult work life balance for people who work in the financial sector, especially women (2010);
- The increase in the percentage of College graduates who choose to work in finance (2008);
- Women’s changing educational and economic prospects (2008);
- The future of marriage (2004) and;
- Inequality in the United States (2008)
The Chronicle of Higher Education has also reported extensively on Goldin’s “many findings and observations on academic issues” including:
- The role of education in furthering the wage gap in the United States, described in The Race Between Education and Technology, a book written with Lawrence F. Katz (2008);
- The return on investment for students at for-profit colleges (2012);
- Women’s citation rates as a measure of scholarly productivity (2014);
- How the gender-based salary gap stems from the lack of flexibility in the workplace (2014);
- The influence of that 2008 book on Barack Obama’s free-college proposal (2015); and
- How economics might help fix its gender imbalance by using new hiring tactics to avoid implicit bias (2019).
Goldin was born in 1946 in New York City and earned her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1972.
