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American researcher Claudia Goldin will receive the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics.
NOBEL PRIZE – The 2023 Nobel Prize waltz is coming to an end, the final award for this year has been announced. This Monday, October 9th, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to the American researcher Claudia Goldin, rewarding her work on gender inequalities in the world of work.
According to the Royal Swedish Academy’s presentation, this award “recognizes our understanding of the situation of women in the labor market.” She is the third woman to receive this award. “Claudia Goldin’s research has given us new and often surprising insights into the historical and current role of women in the labor market,” said the jury.
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First woman in Harvard’s economics department
“Claudia Goldin delved into archives and collected more than 200 years of data about the United States. “This enabled her to show how and why differences in income and employment rates between men and women have developed over time,” noted Nobel Prize jury member Randi Hjalmarsson.
The New York Times notes that Claudia Goldin, the first woman admitted to Harvard University’s economics department in 1989, has written numerous books over more than 200 years to support her research based on analyzing data Women’s employment based, accessible United States.
Her latest essay, “Career and Family – Women on the Path to Justice for Centuries,” published in 2021, is, according to the specialist site Cairn.info, “a remarkable synthesis of all her work, accessible to all audiences.” It traces the changes in the Women’s labor force participation from the early 20th century to the present in the United States and the changing complexities of the work-family relationship.
Latest Nobel added
The Economic Prize “in memory of Alfred Nobel”, created by the Swedish Central Bank, was added to the five traditional prizes (medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace) in 1969, more than sixty years after the others, which earned the prize its critics Nicknamed the “fake Nobel Prize”.
Like the other Nobel laureates, the prize is endowed with 11 million Swedish crowns (920,000 euros), to be shared in the case of co-winners, the highest nominal value (in Swedish currency) in the prize’s more than century-long history.
In 2022, the award went to Ben Bernanke, former President of the US Federal Reserve (Fed), and his compatriots Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for their work at banks and their necessary rescues during financial storms.
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