Recognition for Claudia Goldin’s work may have come late but for several reasons it might be all the sweeter. Goldin’s body of work has already had a major impact on several key gender equality issues, such as women’s education, participation in the labour force, gender wage gaps and discrimination in hiring. Goldin’s U-shaped curve made eminent sense in the Indian …
On the morning of October 9th, the National Bureau of Economic Research circulated a working paper to economists around the world entitled “Why Women Won”. Rather fittingly, a few hours later, Ms Goldin was announced as the winner of this year’s economics Nobel prize, for advancing “our understanding of women’s labour-market outcomes”. Simple statistics, such as the female employment rate, …
Claudia Goldin became the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in economics as the US professor was awarded for her research into the factors that explain pay gaps between men and women. “Understanding women’s role in the labor market is important for society," Jakob Svensson, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences said in a statement. …
The Harvard professor is only the third woman to win the prestigious prize, following Elinor Ostrom in 2009 and Esther Duflo in 2019. American economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for “having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on October 9. The prestigious award, formally known as …
"Even if relationships are destructive, people cling together," photographer Nan Goldin writes in the introduction to the 1996 edition of her seminal monograph The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, originally published in 1986. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, the unflinching, Oscar-nominated documentary helmed by Laura Poitras, is also about a "struggle between autonomy and dependency" – one waged by Goldin …