Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, has been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her work identifying drivers of gender differences in the labor market, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today.
Goldin has “collected over 200 years of data from the U.S., allowing her to demonstrate how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time,” reads the release accompanying the prize.
Read more at the Harvard Gazette.