Harvard professor becomes only the third woman to win the prestigious prize
Last modified on Mon 9 Oct 2023 16.19 CESTThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday that Goldin’s research “provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries” to reveal “the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap”.
Goldin’s 1990 book, Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women, was an influential examination of how wage inequality developed over the last 250 years and the defining difference in the modern era was among couples when they first had a child. “Claudia Goldin’s discoveries have vast societal implications,” said Randi Hjalmarsson, a member of the economic prize committee. “By finally understanding the problem and calling it by the right name, we will be able to pave a better route forward.
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