Claudia Goldin wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

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By Nada Ali

The Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has won on Monday the Nobel Economics Prize for her research that helps explain why women around the world are less likely than men to work and to earn less money when they do.

“This year’s Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries,” the prize-giving body said in a statement on X platform.

The 77-year-old professor is the third woman to have won the economics Nobel, which was first awarded in 1969, and the first one to be honoured with it solo rather than sharing in the prize.

Claudia Dale Goldin is an American economic historian and labour economist who is currently the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She was born into a Jewish family in 1946, and grew up in Parkchester in the Bronx.

Goldin is a co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s (NBER) Gender in the Economy Study Group and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy programme from 1989 to 2017.

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