Nobel Economics Prize awarded to Claudia Goldin for her research on women's contribution to labour market
Goldin is an economics professor at Harvard University in the US and is the third woman to win the highly-coveted award. She is also the second woman to win the highly-coveted prize in economics.
Economist Claudia Goldin on Sunday won the Nobel Prize 2023 in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin for her work in advancing the understanding of "women’s labour market outcomes”.
Goldin is an economics professor at Harvard University and is the third woman to win the highly-coveted award. She is the second woman Nobel laureate in economics.
“Understanding women’s role in the labour market is important for society. Thanks to Claudia Goldin’s groundbreaking research, we now know much more about the underlying factors and which barriers may need to be addressed in the future,” said Jakob Svensson, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences.
The Economics Award was created by Sweden’s central bank in 1968 and is formally known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip Dybvig last year for their research into bank failures that helped shape America’s aggressive response to the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
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