Nobel Prize in Economics 2023 awarded to Claudia Goldin from Harvard University

Professor Claudia Goldin from Harvard University won the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on women’s employment.

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. From 1989 to 2017, she was in charge of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program. She helps run the Gender in the Economy group at the NBER. Goldin is an economic historian and a labor economist. Her study includes a lot of different areas, such as women in the workforce, the pay gap between men and women, income inequality, technological change, education, immigration, and more. Most of her study looks at the present through the lens of the past and tries to figure out where problems that people are worried about now came from. It’s called Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity and came out in 2021% from Princeton University Press.

Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig, and Ben Bernanke, who used to be head of the Federal Reserve, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2022 for their work on banks during times of trouble.