Claudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin
Born (1946-05-14) May 14, 1946 (age 78)
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionHarvard University
NBER
FieldLabor economics
Economic History
Alma materCornell University (B.A.)
University of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D.)
Doctoral
advisor
Robert Fogel
Doctoral
students
Cecilia Rouse
Leah Boustan
AwardsIZA Prize in Labor Economics (2016)
Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics (2020)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Websitehttps://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin

Claudia Goldin (born May 14, 1946) is an American economic historian and labor economist.

She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy Study Group and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. She wins Nobel Prize in Economics in 2023 "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes".[1]

Goldin was the president of the American Economic Association between 2013 until 2014.[2]

References

  1. Nobel Prize in Economics in 2023
  2. Alexander, Sophie M. (April 26, 2007). "Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics". The Harvard Crimson.