Nobel Prize 2023 for economics awarded to Harvard Economist Claudia Goldin

Nobel Prize economics: Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has won the Nobel Prize in Economics 2023, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 9. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, which is awarded in memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded for her comprehensive research of women's contribution to the labour market.

The prize is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($999,137). The first Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded in 1969. Goldin is the third women to win this prestigious award in Economics.

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Claudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy group.

An economic historian and a labor economist, Goldin's research covers a wide range of topics, including the female labor force, the gender gap in earnings, income inequality, technological change, education, and immigration.

Goldin is best known for her historical work on women in the U.S. economy. Her most influential papers in that area have concerned the history of women’s quest for career and family, coeducation in higher education, the impact of the “Pill” on women’s career and marriage decisions, women’s surnames after marriage as a social indicator, the reasons why women are now the majority of undergraduates, and the new lifecycle of women’s employment.