Meet Claudia Goldin, The Third Woman To Win Nobel Prize In Economic Sciences

Clodia Goldin became the third woman to win the Nobel Economics Prize for advancing our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes. Read on to learn more about the award winning women. 

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The popular Economics award created in 1968 by Sweden’s central bank is awarded to Claudia Glodin in 2023 for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes. Claudia became the third woman to win the prize after Elinor Ostrom in 2009 and Esther Duflo in 2019. The nobel economics award is worth 11 million.

Who Is Claudia Goldin?

Working as a Harvard Economics Professor Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Economics prize for her research and extensive work on examining wage inequality between men and women. She has exposed the causes of deeply rooted inequalities in wage in the labour market. Goldin in 1990 became the first woman to be appointed at the Harvard’s economic department. Her book titled “Understanding The Gender Gap: : An Economic History of American Women" was published in 1990 caters the root cause of wage inequality over 200 years of history.

Claudia Goldin Early Life

Claudia Goldin was born in 1946 in New York City. She has worked as the director of NBER’s Development of the American economy program from 1989 to 2017 and then as a co- director of the NBER’s Gender in the Economy grouo. He got recognision for her extensive research in the field of women’s (mother teresa) role in the U.S economy.

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Claudia Goldin On Women And Contraceptive Pill

She has extended her work on contraceptive pill that impact’s women’s career and marriage decision. She has also followed up her studies on women’s surnames changed after marriage is a social indicator and the reason why women (women reservation bill) are majorly undergraduate. At the Havard press conference she said that women had throughout history often been "hidden from view and uncompensated" for doing the same labour that men were paid for.

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