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| caption = Goldin in 2019
| birth_name = Claudia Dale Goldin
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| nationality = American
| nationality = American
| occupation = Economist, economic historian
| occupation = Economist, economic historian
| known_for = Research on women's labor market outcomes, gender pay gap, historical role of women in the U.S. economy
| known_for = Research on women's labor market outcomes, gender wage gap
| employer = [[Harvard University]]
| employer = [[Harvard University]]
| title = Henry Lee Professor of Economics
| title = Henry Lee Professor of Economics
| education = Ph.D., [[University of Chicago]] (1972)
| education = Ph.D., [[University of Chicago]] (1972)
| awards = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (2023), [[Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics]] (2020), [[IZA Prize in Labor Economics]] (2016)
| awards = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (2023), [[Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics]] (2020), [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] (2019)
| website = [https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin Official Harvard faculty page]
| website = [https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin Official Harvard faculty page]
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'''Claudia Dale Goldin''' (born May 14, 1946) is an American [[economic historian]] and [[labor economist]] who serves as the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at [[Harvard University]]. Over a career spanning more than five decades, Goldin has constructed a sweeping analytical history of women's participation in the American economy, tracing changes in employment, education, earnings, and family formation from the late eighteenth century to the present. Her empirical research on the gender wage gap, the transformative effects of oral contraceptives on women's career trajectories, and the long-running dynamics of coeducation in American colleges has reshaped how economists understand labor markets and inequality. In October 2023, she was awarded the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes," becoming only the third woman to receive the prize and the first woman to win it as the sole laureate.<ref name="auto6">{{cite web |title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/summary/ |publisher=Nobel Prize |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> In 1990, Goldin made history at Harvard as the first woman to receive tenure in its economics department.<ref name="crimson2007">{{cite news |title=Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/26/goldin-demystifies-gender-economics-gender-will/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=2007-04-26 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> She served as president of the [[American Economic Association]] in 2013 and directed the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]'s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. As a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy study group, she continues to shape the research agenda on gender and economic life.
'''Claudia Dale Goldin''' (born May 14, 1946) is an American [[economic historian]] and [[labor economist]] who serves as the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at [[Harvard University]]. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, Goldin has reshaped the understanding of women's participation in the American economy, drawing on centuries of data to illuminate the forces that have shaped gender disparities in employment, earnings, and education. In October 2023, she was awarded the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes," becoming the third woman to receive the prize and the first woman to win it without sharing it with other laureates.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Prize in Economic Sciences 2023 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/summary/ |publisher=Nobel Foundation |date=2023-10-09 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> In 1990, Goldin became the first woman to receive tenure in Harvard's economics department, a milestone that reflected both her scholarly distinction and the broader institutional changes she has spent her career studying.<ref>{{cite news |title=Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/26/goldin-demystifies-gender-economics-gender-will/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=2007-04-26 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> She co-directs the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]'s Gender in the Economy study group and served as the director of the NBER's Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. In 2013, she served as president of the [[American Economic Association]].


== Early Life ==
== Early Life ==


Claudia Dale Goldin was born on May 14, 1946, in [[The Bronx]], [[New York City]].<ref name="bbntimes">{{cite news |title=Claudia Goldin: Pioneering Economist, Nobel Laureate, and Champion of Gender Equality |url=https://www.bbntimes.com/global-economy/claudia-goldin-pioneering-economist-nobel-laureate-and-champion-of-gender-equality |work=BBN Times |date=2025-02-20 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> Growing up in New York, Goldin developed an early intellectual curiosity that would eventually draw her toward economics and history. She has described her path into economics as that of a "detective," a metaphor she has returned to throughout her career to characterize the process of using data and historical evidence to uncover economic truths that are not immediately visible.<ref name="detective">{{cite web |title=The Economist as Detective |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/detective.doc |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
Claudia Dale Goldin was born on May 14, 1946, in [[The Bronx]], [[New York City]].<ref name="bbntimes">{{cite news |title=Claudia Goldin: Pioneering Economist, Nobel Laureate, and Champion of Gender Equality |url=https://www.bbntimes.com/global-economy/claudia-goldin-pioneering-economist-nobel-laureate-and-champion-of-gender-equality |work=BBN Times |date=2025-02-20 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> She grew up in New York and developed an early interest in scientific inquiry. In a reflective essay titled "The Economist as Detective," Goldin described how her intellectual curiosity was shaped during her formative years, comparing the work of an economist to that of a detective piecing together evidence to understand complex phenomena.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Economist as Detective |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/detective.doc |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>


Details about her family background and childhood remain largely private in the public record. What is documented is that Goldin came of age during a period of significant social transformation in the United States — the civil rights movement, the expansion of higher education, and the beginning of the feminist movement — all of which would later inform the subjects of her academic research.
Goldin's path to economics was not immediate. As a young student, she was drawn to the sciences and initially considered pursuing a career in fields outside of the social sciences. Her intellectual development was shaped by the broader social and cultural environment of postwar New York City, which provided exposure to diverse ideas and institutions. The trajectory that would eventually lead her to become one of the foremost economic historians in the United States began to take shape during her undergraduate years at [[Cornell University]], where she graduated in 1967.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Claudia Goldin '67 Speaks on Women's Rights in 'Why Women Won' Lecture |url=https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/09/nobel-memorial-prize-winner-claudia-goldin-67-speaks-on-women-s-rights-in-why-women-won-lecture |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=2025-09-27 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>


== Education ==
== Education ==


Goldin pursued her undergraduate education at [[Cornell University]], graduating in 1967.<ref name="cornellsun">{{cite news |title=Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Claudia Goldin '67 Speaks on Women's Rights in 'Why Women Won' Lecture |url=https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/09/nobel-memorial-prize-winner-claudia-goldin-67-speaks-on-women-s-rights-in-why-women-won-lecture |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=2025-09-27 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> She then entered the doctoral program in economics at the [[University of Chicago]], where she studied under [[Robert Fogel]], a pioneer of [[cliometrics]] — the application of quantitative methods to economic history — who himself would go on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993.<ref name="uchicago news">{{cite web |title=Claudia Goldin: University of Chicago doctoral advisor |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/goldin/facts/ |publisher=Nobel Prize |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> Goldin completed her Ph.D. in 1972 with a dissertation titled ''The Economics of Urban Slavery: 1820 to 1860'', a quantitative study of the economics of slavery in American cities before the Civil War.<ref name="thesis">{{cite web |title=The Economics of Urban Slavery: 1820 to 1860 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/3089707bd831f2d1d24fb01166d986d7/ |publisher=ProQuest |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> The dissertation reflected Fogel's influence in its rigorous use of historical data to address fundamental economic questions, a methodology that would define Goldin's subsequent career. Her training at Chicago, at the nexus of economic theory and quantitative history, provided the analytical foundation for the research on women and the economy that would become her life's work.
Goldin earned her undergraduate degree from [[Cornell University]] in 1967.<ref name="cornellsun">{{cite news |title=Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Claudia Goldin '67 Speaks on Women's Rights in 'Why Women Won' Lecture |url=https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/09/nobel-memorial-prize-winner-claudia-goldin-67-speaks-on-women-s-rights-in-why-women-won-lecture |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=2025-09-27 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> She subsequently pursued graduate studies at the [[University of Chicago]], where she earned her Ph.D. in economics in 1972. Her doctoral dissertation, titled ''The Economics of Urban Slavery: 1820 to 1860'', examined the economics of slavery in American cities during the antebellum period, reflecting an early and enduring interest in American economic history.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Economics of Urban Slavery: 1820 to 1860 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/3089707bd831f2d1d24fb01166d986d7/ |publisher=ProQuest |date=1972 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> Her doctoral advisor was [[Robert Fogel]], the Nobel Prize–winning economic historian who was instrumental in the development of [[cliometrics]]—the application of economic theory and quantitative methods to the study of history.<ref name="uchicago">{{cite web |title=Claudia Goldin |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/ |publisher=University of Chicago |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> The training Goldin received under Fogel at Chicago profoundly influenced her subsequent career, equipping her with the quantitative and archival methods that would become hallmarks of her research.


== Career ==
== Career ==


=== Early Academic Career and University of Pennsylvania ===
=== Early Academic Career and Research on Slavery and Industrialization ===


After completing her doctorate, Goldin held academic positions at several institutions before joining the faculty at the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref name="inter">{{cite web |title=Claudia Goldin Publications |url=http://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/publications |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> During her time at Penn, she began developing the research program that would distinguish her career: the application of economic history methods to questions about gender, labor markets, and education in the United States. Her early work on slavery and the antebellum economy demonstrated her skill at assembling and analyzing historical datasets — a capacity she would apply with increasing focus to the economic history of women.
After completing her doctorate, Goldin held positions at several institutions, including the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], [[Princeton University]], and the [[University of Pennsylvania]], before joining the faculty of Harvard University.<ref name="bbntimes" /> Her earliest research, growing out of her doctoral work on urban slavery, examined the economic dimensions of the American slave system. This work contributed to a broader scholarly effort, influenced by Robert Fogel and others, to apply rigorous quantitative analysis to the study of slavery and its role in American economic development.


=== Harvard University ===
Goldin's research interests expanded during the 1970s and 1980s to encompass the broader contours of American economic history, including industrialization, urbanization, and the evolution of labor markets. She published extensively on the economic history of the United States, establishing herself as a leading figure in the field of economic history.


In 1990, Goldin joined the economics department at [[Harvard University]], where she became the first woman to receive tenure in that department — an appointment that itself illustrated the very patterns of gender inequality she studied.<ref name="crimson2007" /> She was appointed the Henry Lee Professor of Economics, a position she continues to hold. At Harvard, Goldin built one of the most influential research programs in labor economics and economic history, training a generation of doctoral students who have gone on to prominent careers in academia and policy. Among her doctoral students is [[Leah Boustan]], who has made significant contributions to the economics of immigration and urban development.
=== Harvard University and the Study of Women in the Economy ===


Goldin's position at Harvard also connected her work to broader institutional networks. She served as director of the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]'s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017, a role through which she shaped the research agenda of economic history in the United States for nearly three decades. She subsequently became co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy study group, alongside Claudia Olivetti and Jessica Goldberg, continuing to guide research at the intersection of gender and economics.
In 1990, Goldin was appointed to the economics department at Harvard University with tenure, becoming the first woman to hold a tenured position in the department's history.<ref>{{cite news |title=Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/26/goldin-demystifies-gender-economics-gender-will/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=2007-04-26 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> She was named the Henry Lee Professor of Economics, a position she continues to hold. At Harvard, Goldin developed the body of research on gender and the economy for which she is most recognized.


=== Research on Women and the Economy ===
Goldin's historical work on women and the American economy constitutes the central contribution of her career. Her approach is distinguished by its use of long-run historical data, often spanning more than two centuries, to understand patterns that shorter time horizons would not reveal. Among her most influential contributions are papers on the impact of the [[combined oral contraceptive pill|contraceptive pill]] on women's career and marriage decisions, the history of [[coeducation]] in American higher education, the evolving pursuit of career and family by successive cohorts of American women, the use of married women's surnames as a social indicator, the reasons that women now constitute the majority of American undergraduates, and the changing life-cycle patterns of women's employment.<ref>{{cite web |title=Claudia Goldin – Publications |url=http://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/publications |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>


Goldin's most significant and far-reaching body of work concerns the history and economics of women's participation in the American labor force. Rather than treating the gender pay gap and women's employment patterns as static phenomena, she approached them as products of long historical processes shaped by technology, institutions, social norms, and individual choices.
A profile by the [[International Monetary Fund]] described Goldin as having "pioneered the study of women's role in the economy," noting that her work drew on meticulous archival research and innovative use of historical data sets to construct a comprehensive picture of how women's economic lives have changed over time.<ref name="imf">{{cite news |last=Walker |first=Peter J. |title=Profile of Harvard Economist Claudia Goldin |url=https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2018/12/profile-of-harvard-economist-claudia-goldin |work=IMF Finance & Development Magazine |date=2018-12 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>


One of her most influential contributions is her research on the impact of the [[combined oral contraceptive pill]] on women's career and marriage decisions. By analyzing how access to the pill altered the timing of marriage and childbearing, Goldin demonstrated that reproductive technology had profound economic consequences, enabling women to invest in education and careers in ways that were previously impractical. This work connected the history of contraception to labor market outcomes in a way that had not previously been done with such empirical rigor.
=== The Grand Gender Convergence and the Gender Wage Gap ===


Goldin also conducted extensive research on the history of [[coeducation]] in American higher education, examining why and how colleges and universities moved from single-sex to coeducational models, and what the consequences were for women's educational attainment. Related to this, she investigated why women came to constitute a majority of undergraduates in American colleges and universities — a reversal of the historical pattern that has significant implications for the labor market and for family formation.
One of Goldin's central arguments, developed across multiple publications, concerns what she has termed the "grand gender convergence" in the labor market. Goldin's research has documented how the gap between men's and women's earnings has narrowed substantially over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, driven by changes in women's education, labor force participation, and occupational attainment. However, Goldin has also identified the persistence of a residual gender wage gap, which she attributes not primarily to overt discrimination but to structural features of labor markets, particularly the premium paid to workers who are available for long or inflexible hours.


Her work on women's last names after marriage as a social indicator is characteristic of her methodological creativity. By tracking the prevalence of women retaining their birth names after marriage, Goldin used an observable social practice as a proxy for broader changes in gender identity and women's autonomy. This type of innovative use of historical data is a hallmark of her research.
In her influential research on what she calls "greedy work," Goldin has argued that much of the remaining gender pay gap arises from the fact that certain high-paying occupations—such as finance, law, and management consulting—disproportionately reward workers who can work long, unpredictable hours and penalize those who seek temporal flexibility. Because women continue to bear a disproportionate share of childcare and domestic responsibilities, they are more likely to seek flexibility and are consequently penalized in earnings. Goldin has argued that closing the gender pay gap requires not only changes in individual behavior but also structural changes in how work is organized and compensated.<ref name="imf" />


Goldin has also written extensively about what she calls the "new life history" of women's employment, documenting how successive cohorts of American women have navigated the relationship between career and family in different ways. She has identified distinct phases or "cohorts" in the history of women's economic participation, each characterized by different expectations, constraints, and outcomes. This framework has been influential in both academic economics and public discussions of work-life balance.
=== The Contraceptive Pill and Women's Career Decisions ===


A significant theme in Goldin's later research concerns the structure of workplaces and occupations. She has argued that a major source of the remaining gender pay gap is not discrimination per se but rather the premium that many occupations place on long, inflexible hours — what she terms "greedy work." According to her analysis, occupations that reward workers who are available at all times and who can substitute for one another tend to have smaller gender pay gaps, while occupations that place a high premium on specific individuals being present for extended or unpredictable hours tend to have larger gaps. This framework shifts the policy discussion from individual-level bias to structural characteristics of jobs and industries.<ref name="imf">{{cite web |title=Profile of Harvard Economist Claudia Goldin – IMF Finance & Development Magazine |url=https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2018/12/profile-of-harvard-economist-claudia-goldin |publisher=International Monetary Fund |date=2018-12 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
Among Goldin's most cited and discussed contributions is her research on the role of the contraceptive pill in transforming women's economic lives. In a series of papers, Goldin and her co-author [[Lawrence Katz]] demonstrated that access to the pill in the late 1960s and 1970s gave young women greater control over the timing of marriage and childbearing, enabling them to invest more heavily in education and career development. By allowing women to delay marriage and childbirth, the pill facilitated a dramatic increase in women's representation in professional schools and high-skilled occupations. This research provided quantitative evidence for what had long been asserted anecdotally: that reproductive control was a key driver of women's economic advancement in the latter twentieth century.<ref>{{cite web |title=Claudia Goldin – Publications |url=http://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/publications |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>


=== Published Works ===
=== The History of Coeducation ===


Goldin's scholarship is documented in numerous journal articles and several books. Her publication record, housed at Harvard, spans topics from slavery and industrialization to education and the gender gap.<ref name="inter" /> Her 1990 book ''Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women'' synthesized decades of research into a comprehensive account of women's economic status from the colonial era to the late twentieth century. Her 2021 book ''Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity'' extended her analysis to the present day, arguing that the remaining barriers to gender equality in the labor market are rooted in the structure of work itself rather than in overt discrimination.
Goldin has also contributed to the understanding of the history of coeducation in American higher education. Her research documented the varied and often contested process by which American colleges and universities came to admit women alongside men, showing that the spread of coeducation was driven by a combination of economic pressures, ideological shifts, and competitive dynamics among institutions. This work illuminated the connections between educational access and women's subsequent labor market outcomes.


=== Recent Work on Fertility and Women's Rights ===
=== NBER Leadership ===


In her more recent public engagements, Goldin has addressed questions about declining fertility rates globally. In a September 2025 discussion hosted by the [[Hoover Institution]], she advanced explanations for why fertility rates have fallen in recent decades around the world, connecting the phenomenon to women's expanded educational and economic opportunities as well as to structural features of modern economies.<ref name="hoover">{{cite web |title=Why So Few Births? |url=https://www.hoover.org/research/why-so-few-births |publisher=Hoover Institution |date=2025-09-17 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> Research connected to this discussion, reported by ''The 19th News'' in August 2025, found that countries where men do more housework and child care have higher fertility rates — a finding consistent with Goldin's broader argument that the distribution of unpaid labor within households is central to understanding gender and economic outcomes.<ref name="19th">{{cite news |title=To raise fertility rates, it's not women who need to step up — it's men |url=https://19thnews.org/2025/08/fertility-rates-traditionalism-research/ |work=The 19th News |date=2025-08-26 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
In addition to her teaching and research at Harvard, Goldin has played a significant role in the institutional infrastructure of American economics. She served as director of the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]'s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017, a period during which the program became a major center for research in American economic history.<ref name="imf" /> She subsequently co-directed, alongside Claudia Olivetti and Jessica Goldberg, the NBER's Gender in the Economy study group, which coordinates research on the economic dimensions of gender.


In September 2025, Goldin returned to her alma mater, Cornell University, to deliver the 2025 Staller Lecture, titled "Why Women Won." In a 40-minute lecture followed by a question-and-answer session, she used data to trace the progress of the U.S. women's movement while also identifying the forces that have slowed progress toward full equality.<ref name="cornellsun" /><ref name="cornellchronicle1">{{cite news |title=Nobel-winning economist to speak on 'why women won' |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/nobel-winning-economist-speak-why-women-won |work=Cornell Chronicle |date=2025-09-10 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> According to the ''Cornell Chronicle'', Goldin presented evidence of "tremendous" progress in women's rights in the United States but also noted that economic benefits have lagged behind legal and social advances.<ref name="cornellchronicle2">{{cite news |title=Nobel winner says US women won on rights, but benefits lag |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/nobel-winner-says-us-women-won-rights-benefits-lag |work=Cornell Chronicle |date=2025-09-29 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> She also appeared on [[C-SPAN]] in September 2025 to discuss why women are at the center of the world's economies.<ref name="cspan">{{cite web |title=Bell Ringer: Claudia Goldin |url=https://www.c-span.org/classroom/document/?24883 |publisher=C-SPAN |date=2025-09-22 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
=== Recent Work: Fertility, Women's Rights, and Public Engagement ===
 
In recent years, Goldin has expanded her public engagement, delivering lectures and contributing to public discourse on questions of gender equality, women's rights, and demographic change. In September 2025, she returned to her alma mater, Cornell University, to deliver the 2025 Staller Lecture, titled "Why Women Won." In the lecture, Goldin used data to trace the "tremendous" progress of the U.S. women's movement while also identifying the forces that have slowed or limited the full realization of women's gains.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nobel winner says US women won on rights, but benefits lag |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/nobel-winner-says-us-women-won-rights-benefits-lag |work=Cornell Chronicle |date=2025-09-29 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Nobel-winning economist to speak on 'why women won' |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/nobel-winning-economist-speak-why-women-won |work=Cornell Chronicle |date=2025-09-10 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
 
Goldin has also engaged with contemporary debates on declining fertility rates. In a 2025 discussion hosted by the [[Hoover Institution]], she advanced explanations for the global decline in birth rates, drawing connections between fertility trends, the organization of domestic labor, and broader social and economic shifts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Why So Few Births? |url=https://www.hoover.org/research/why-so-few-births |publisher=Hoover Institution |date=2025-09-17 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> Related research has found that countries where men perform a greater share of housework and child care tend to have higher fertility rates, a finding consistent with Goldin's broader arguments about the relationship between gender equity and economic outcomes.<ref>{{cite news |title=To raise fertility rates, it's not women who need to step up — it's men |url=https://19thnews.org/2025/08/fertility-rates-traditionalism-research/ |work=The 19th News |date=2025-08-26 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
 
In 2022, Goldin appeared on [[C-SPAN]], where she discussed why women are at the center of the world's economies, further extending her efforts to communicate academic research to broader audiences.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bell Ringer: Claudia Goldin |url=https://www.c-span.org/classroom/document/?24883 |publisher=C-SPAN |date=2025-09-22 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>


== Personal Life ==
== Personal Life ==


Goldin is known for her golden retriever, Pika, who has become something of a public figure alongside her owner. Goldin has maintained a page devoted to Pika on her Harvard faculty website.<ref name="pika">{{cite web |title=Pika |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/pages/pika |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> Beyond this detail, Goldin has kept her personal life largely separate from her public academic profile. She resides in the Boston area, where she has been based throughout her tenure at Harvard.
Goldin is known to keep a golden retriever named Pika, who has attracted attention in media coverage and is featured on her Harvard faculty webpage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pika |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/pages/pika |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref> She resides in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area, where she has been based since joining Harvard's faculty in 1990. Beyond her academic work, Goldin has been noted for her role as a mentor to graduate students and younger scholars in economic history and labor economics. Among her doctoral students is [[Leah Boustan]], who has become a prominent economic historian in her own right.


== Recognition ==
== Recognition ==


Goldin has received numerous awards and honors over the course of her career, reflecting the breadth and impact of her research.
Goldin has received numerous awards and honors over the course of her career. The most prominent is the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]], which she received in October 2023 "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes." She was the third woman to be awarded the prize and the first to receive it without sharing it with other laureates.<ref name="bbntimes" />


In 2016, she received the [[IZA Prize in Labor Economics]], awarded by the Institute of Labor Economics (formerly the Institute for the Study of Labor) in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field.<ref name="iza">{{cite web |title=IZA Prize in Labor Economics |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908212243/http://legacy.iza.org/en/webcontent/prize/iza_prize |publisher=IZA – Institute of Labor Economics |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
In 2020, Goldin received the [[Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics]], awarded by [[Northwestern University]] to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to economics.<ref>{{cite web |title=Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics |url=https://www.nemmers.northwestern.edu/ |publisher=Northwestern University |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>


In 2019, she received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, recognizing her contributions to economic research.<ref name="bbva">{{cite web |title=The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/bf-tbf032619.php |publisher=EurekAlert |date=2019-03-26 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
In 2019, she was awarded the [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] in the Economics, Finance and Management category, in recognition of her research on the gender gap in the labor market.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/bf-tbf032619.php |publisher=EurekAlert |date=2019-03-26 |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>


In 2020, Goldin was awarded the [[Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics]], given biennially by [[Northwestern University]] to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to the field of economics.<ref name="auto8">{{cite web |title=Nemmers Prize in Economics |url=https://www.northwestern.edu/nemmers/ |publisher=Northwestern University |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
Goldin has also been honored with the [[IZA Prize in Labor Economics]], one of the most prestigious awards in the field of labor economics.<ref>{{cite web |title=IZA Prize in Labor Economics |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908212243/http://legacy.iza.org/en/webcontent/prize/iza_prize |publisher=IZA Institute of Labor Economics |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>


The culmination of this recognition came in October 2023, when the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] awarded Goldin the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The citation recognized her "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes." She was the third woman to receive the prize, after [[Elinor Ostrom]] in 2009 and [[Esther Duflo]] in 2019, and the first woman to receive it as a sole laureate rather than sharing it with co-recipients.<ref name="auto6" />
In 2013, she served as president of the [[American Economic Association]], one of the discipline's most significant leadership positions. Her presidency reflected her standing as one of the most influential economists of her generation.


In 2013, Goldin served as president of the [[American Economic Association]], one of the most prominent leadership positions in the economics profession. Her election to this role reflected broad recognition of her standing within the discipline.<ref name="aea">{{cite web |title=AEA Past Presidents |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=453 |publisher=American Economic Association |access-date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
== Legacy ==


== Legacy ==
Goldin's work has fundamentally altered the way economists and policymakers understand the economic history of women in the United States and globally. By assembling and analyzing data spanning more than 200 years, she has provided a long-run perspective on gender and the economy that was previously unavailable. Her research has demonstrated that the trajectory of women's labor force participation is not a simple story of linear progress but rather a complex, U-shaped pattern influenced by industrialization, social norms, education, and technological change.
 
Her concept of "greedy work" has entered the vocabulary of both academic economists and public policy discussions, providing a framework for understanding why the gender pay gap persists even as overt discrimination has declined. The finding that much of the remaining wage gap is attributable to the structure of work rather than to individual characteristics has influenced debates about workplace flexibility, parental leave, and the division of domestic labor.
 
Goldin's research on the contraceptive pill's role in women's economic advancement has been described as a landmark contribution, connecting demographic and medical history to labor economics in a way that has inspired subsequent research across multiple disciplines.


Goldin's body of work has fundamentally altered the way economists study gender and labor markets. Before her research, economic analyses of the gender wage gap and women's labor force participation tended to be cross-sectional, examining differences at a single point in time. Goldin's innovation was to treat these phenomena historically, assembling datasets spanning two centuries to show how women's economic roles evolved in response to technological change, educational expansion, legal reform, and shifting social norms. This historical approach revealed that progress toward gender equality has not been linear but rather has proceeded in distinct phases, each with its own dynamics and constraints.
As a teacher and mentor at Harvard, Goldin has trained a generation of economists who continue to work on questions of gender, labor, and economic history. Her role as the first tenured woman in Harvard's economics department, combined with her scholarly achievements, has made her a significant figure in discussions about the representation of women in the economics profession itself.


Her concept of "greedy work" — the idea that occupations demanding long and unpredictable hours are a primary driver of the remaining gender pay gap — has entered both academic and public discourse as a framework for understanding persistent inequality.<ref name="imf" /> This analysis has shifted attention from individual-level explanations of the gender gap (such as discrimination or differences in preferences) to structural features of the labor market, suggesting that meaningful progress requires changes in how work is organized rather than simply changes in women's behavior or qualifications.
Her Nobel Prize in 2023 cemented her status as one of the most consequential economists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The award recognized not a single paper or finding but rather a decades-long body of work that has shaped how the profession understands the relationship between gender and economic life.


As a researcher, mentor, and institutional leader, Goldin has shaped the field of labor economics and economic history in lasting ways. Her directorship of the NBER's Development of the American Economy program for nearly three decades influenced the questions and methods adopted by a generation of economic historians. Her training of doctoral students has extended her intellectual influence well beyond her own published work.
== Selected Works ==


By documenting the long history of women's economic participation in the United States — its advances, setbacks, and ongoing challenges — Goldin provided an empirical foundation for policy discussions about gender equality, workplace flexibility, and the relationship between family and career. Her Nobel Prize citation recognized not just specific findings but the cumulative contribution of a research program that has, over half a century, transformed the understanding of women's labor market outcomes.
* ''Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women'' (1990)
* ''The Race between Education and Technology'' (2008, with Lawrence Katz)
* ''Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity'' (2021)


== References ==
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Claudia Goldin
BornClaudia Dale Goldin
14 5, 1946
BirthplaceThe Bronx, New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEconomist, economic historian
TitleHenry Lee Professor of Economics
EmployerHarvard University
Known forResearch on women's labor market outcomes, gender wage gap
EducationPh.D., University of Chicago (1972)
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2023), Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics (2020), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2019)
Website[Official Harvard faculty page Official site]

Claudia Dale Goldin (born May 14, 1946) is an American economic historian and labor economist who serves as the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, Goldin has reshaped the understanding of women's participation in the American economy, drawing on centuries of data to illuminate the forces that have shaped gender disparities in employment, earnings, and education. In October 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes," becoming the third woman to receive the prize and the first woman to win it without sharing it with other laureates.[1] In 1990, Goldin became the first woman to receive tenure in Harvard's economics department, a milestone that reflected both her scholarly distinction and the broader institutional changes she has spent her career studying.[2] She co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research's Gender in the Economy study group and served as the director of the NBER's Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. In 2013, she served as president of the American Economic Association.

Early Life

Claudia Dale Goldin was born on May 14, 1946, in The Bronx, New York City.[3] She grew up in New York and developed an early interest in scientific inquiry. In a reflective essay titled "The Economist as Detective," Goldin described how her intellectual curiosity was shaped during her formative years, comparing the work of an economist to that of a detective piecing together evidence to understand complex phenomena.[4]

Goldin's path to economics was not immediate. As a young student, she was drawn to the sciences and initially considered pursuing a career in fields outside of the social sciences. Her intellectual development was shaped by the broader social and cultural environment of postwar New York City, which provided exposure to diverse ideas and institutions. The trajectory that would eventually lead her to become one of the foremost economic historians in the United States began to take shape during her undergraduate years at Cornell University, where she graduated in 1967.[5]

Education

Goldin earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1967.[6] She subsequently pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago, where she earned her Ph.D. in economics in 1972. Her doctoral dissertation, titled The Economics of Urban Slavery: 1820 to 1860, examined the economics of slavery in American cities during the antebellum period, reflecting an early and enduring interest in American economic history.[7] Her doctoral advisor was Robert Fogel, the Nobel Prize–winning economic historian who was instrumental in the development of cliometrics—the application of economic theory and quantitative methods to the study of history.[8] The training Goldin received under Fogel at Chicago profoundly influenced her subsequent career, equipping her with the quantitative and archival methods that would become hallmarks of her research.

Career

Early Academic Career and Research on Slavery and Industrialization

After completing her doctorate, Goldin held positions at several institutions, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania, before joining the faculty of Harvard University.[3] Her earliest research, growing out of her doctoral work on urban slavery, examined the economic dimensions of the American slave system. This work contributed to a broader scholarly effort, influenced by Robert Fogel and others, to apply rigorous quantitative analysis to the study of slavery and its role in American economic development.

Goldin's research interests expanded during the 1970s and 1980s to encompass the broader contours of American economic history, including industrialization, urbanization, and the evolution of labor markets. She published extensively on the economic history of the United States, establishing herself as a leading figure in the field of economic history.

Harvard University and the Study of Women in the Economy

In 1990, Goldin was appointed to the economics department at Harvard University with tenure, becoming the first woman to hold a tenured position in the department's history.[9] She was named the Henry Lee Professor of Economics, a position she continues to hold. At Harvard, Goldin developed the body of research on gender and the economy for which she is most recognized.

Goldin's historical work on women and the American economy constitutes the central contribution of her career. Her approach is distinguished by its use of long-run historical data, often spanning more than two centuries, to understand patterns that shorter time horizons would not reveal. Among her most influential contributions are papers on the impact of the contraceptive pill on women's career and marriage decisions, the history of coeducation in American higher education, the evolving pursuit of career and family by successive cohorts of American women, the use of married women's surnames as a social indicator, the reasons that women now constitute the majority of American undergraduates, and the changing life-cycle patterns of women's employment.[10]

A profile by the International Monetary Fund described Goldin as having "pioneered the study of women's role in the economy," noting that her work drew on meticulous archival research and innovative use of historical data sets to construct a comprehensive picture of how women's economic lives have changed over time.[11]

The Grand Gender Convergence and the Gender Wage Gap

One of Goldin's central arguments, developed across multiple publications, concerns what she has termed the "grand gender convergence" in the labor market. Goldin's research has documented how the gap between men's and women's earnings has narrowed substantially over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, driven by changes in women's education, labor force participation, and occupational attainment. However, Goldin has also identified the persistence of a residual gender wage gap, which she attributes not primarily to overt discrimination but to structural features of labor markets, particularly the premium paid to workers who are available for long or inflexible hours.

In her influential research on what she calls "greedy work," Goldin has argued that much of the remaining gender pay gap arises from the fact that certain high-paying occupations—such as finance, law, and management consulting—disproportionately reward workers who can work long, unpredictable hours and penalize those who seek temporal flexibility. Because women continue to bear a disproportionate share of childcare and domestic responsibilities, they are more likely to seek flexibility and are consequently penalized in earnings. Goldin has argued that closing the gender pay gap requires not only changes in individual behavior but also structural changes in how work is organized and compensated.[11]

The Contraceptive Pill and Women's Career Decisions

Among Goldin's most cited and discussed contributions is her research on the role of the contraceptive pill in transforming women's economic lives. In a series of papers, Goldin and her co-author Lawrence Katz demonstrated that access to the pill in the late 1960s and 1970s gave young women greater control over the timing of marriage and childbearing, enabling them to invest more heavily in education and career development. By allowing women to delay marriage and childbirth, the pill facilitated a dramatic increase in women's representation in professional schools and high-skilled occupations. This research provided quantitative evidence for what had long been asserted anecdotally: that reproductive control was a key driver of women's economic advancement in the latter twentieth century.[12]

The History of Coeducation

Goldin has also contributed to the understanding of the history of coeducation in American higher education. Her research documented the varied and often contested process by which American colleges and universities came to admit women alongside men, showing that the spread of coeducation was driven by a combination of economic pressures, ideological shifts, and competitive dynamics among institutions. This work illuminated the connections between educational access and women's subsequent labor market outcomes.

NBER Leadership

In addition to her teaching and research at Harvard, Goldin has played a significant role in the institutional infrastructure of American economics. She served as director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017, a period during which the program became a major center for research in American economic history.[11] She subsequently co-directed, alongside Claudia Olivetti and Jessica Goldberg, the NBER's Gender in the Economy study group, which coordinates research on the economic dimensions of gender.

Recent Work: Fertility, Women's Rights, and Public Engagement

In recent years, Goldin has expanded her public engagement, delivering lectures and contributing to public discourse on questions of gender equality, women's rights, and demographic change. In September 2025, she returned to her alma mater, Cornell University, to deliver the 2025 Staller Lecture, titled "Why Women Won." In the lecture, Goldin used data to trace the "tremendous" progress of the U.S. women's movement while also identifying the forces that have slowed or limited the full realization of women's gains.[13][14]

Goldin has also engaged with contemporary debates on declining fertility rates. In a 2025 discussion hosted by the Hoover Institution, she advanced explanations for the global decline in birth rates, drawing connections between fertility trends, the organization of domestic labor, and broader social and economic shifts.[15] Related research has found that countries where men perform a greater share of housework and child care tend to have higher fertility rates, a finding consistent with Goldin's broader arguments about the relationship between gender equity and economic outcomes.[16]

In 2022, Goldin appeared on C-SPAN, where she discussed why women are at the center of the world's economies, further extending her efforts to communicate academic research to broader audiences.[17]

Personal Life

Goldin is known to keep a golden retriever named Pika, who has attracted attention in media coverage and is featured on her Harvard faculty webpage.[18] She resides in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area, where she has been based since joining Harvard's faculty in 1990. Beyond her academic work, Goldin has been noted for her role as a mentor to graduate students and younger scholars in economic history and labor economics. Among her doctoral students is Leah Boustan, who has become a prominent economic historian in her own right.

Recognition

Goldin has received numerous awards and honors over the course of her career. The most prominent is the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which she received in October 2023 "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes." She was the third woman to be awarded the prize and the first to receive it without sharing it with other laureates.[3]

In 2020, Goldin received the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, awarded by Northwestern University to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to economics.[19]

In 2019, she was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category, in recognition of her research on the gender gap in the labor market.[20]

Goldin has also been honored with the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of labor economics.[21]

In 2013, she served as president of the American Economic Association, one of the discipline's most significant leadership positions. Her presidency reflected her standing as one of the most influential economists of her generation.

Legacy

Goldin's work has fundamentally altered the way economists and policymakers understand the economic history of women in the United States and globally. By assembling and analyzing data spanning more than 200 years, she has provided a long-run perspective on gender and the economy that was previously unavailable. Her research has demonstrated that the trajectory of women's labor force participation is not a simple story of linear progress but rather a complex, U-shaped pattern influenced by industrialization, social norms, education, and technological change.

Her concept of "greedy work" has entered the vocabulary of both academic economists and public policy discussions, providing a framework for understanding why the gender pay gap persists even as overt discrimination has declined. The finding that much of the remaining wage gap is attributable to the structure of work rather than to individual characteristics has influenced debates about workplace flexibility, parental leave, and the division of domestic labor.

Goldin's research on the contraceptive pill's role in women's economic advancement has been described as a landmark contribution, connecting demographic and medical history to labor economics in a way that has inspired subsequent research across multiple disciplines.

As a teacher and mentor at Harvard, Goldin has trained a generation of economists who continue to work on questions of gender, labor, and economic history. Her role as the first tenured woman in Harvard's economics department, combined with her scholarly achievements, has made her a significant figure in discussions about the representation of women in the economics profession itself.

Her Nobel Prize in 2023 cemented her status as one of the most consequential economists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The award recognized not a single paper or finding but rather a decades-long body of work that has shaped how the profession understands the relationship between gender and economic life.

Selected Works

  • Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (1990)
  • The Race between Education and Technology (2008, with Lawrence Katz)
  • Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity (2021)

References

  1. ↑ "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2023".Nobel Foundation.2023-10-09.https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/summary/.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  2. ↑ "Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics".The Harvard Crimson.2007-04-26.http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/26/goldin-demystifies-gender-economics-gender-will/.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Claudia Goldin: Pioneering Economist, Nobel Laureate, and Champion of Gender Equality".BBN Times.2025-02-20.https://www.bbntimes.com/global-economy/claudia-goldin-pioneering-economist-nobel-laureate-and-champion-of-gender-equality.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  4. ↑ "The Economist as Detective".Harvard University.https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/detective.doc.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  5. ↑ "Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Claudia Goldin '67 Speaks on Women's Rights in 'Why Women Won' Lecture".The Cornell Daily Sun.2025-09-27.https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/09/nobel-memorial-prize-winner-claudia-goldin-67-speaks-on-women-s-rights-in-why-women-won-lecture.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  6. ↑ "Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Claudia Goldin '67 Speaks on Women's Rights in 'Why Women Won' Lecture".The Cornell Daily Sun.2025-09-27.https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/09/nobel-memorial-prize-winner-claudia-goldin-67-speaks-on-women-s-rights-in-why-women-won-lecture.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  7. ↑ "The Economics of Urban Slavery: 1820 to 1860".ProQuest.1972.https://www.proquest.com/openview/3089707bd831f2d1d24fb01166d986d7/.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  8. ↑ "Claudia Goldin".University of Chicago.https://news.uchicago.edu/.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  9. ↑ "Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics".The Harvard Crimson.2007-04-26.http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/26/goldin-demystifies-gender-economics-gender-will/.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  10. ↑ "Claudia Goldin – Publications".Harvard University.http://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/publications.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 WalkerPeter J.Peter J."Profile of Harvard Economist Claudia Goldin".IMF Finance & Development Magazine.2018-12.https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2018/12/profile-of-harvard-economist-claudia-goldin.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  12. ↑ "Claudia Goldin – Publications".Harvard University.http://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/publications.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  13. ↑ "Nobel winner says US women won on rights, but benefits lag".Cornell Chronicle.2025-09-29.https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/nobel-winner-says-us-women-won-rights-benefits-lag.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  14. ↑ "Nobel-winning economist to speak on 'why women won'".Cornell Chronicle.2025-09-10.https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/nobel-winning-economist-speak-why-women-won.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  15. ↑ "Why So Few Births?".Hoover Institution.2025-09-17.https://www.hoover.org/research/why-so-few-births.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  16. ↑ "To raise fertility rates, it's not women who need to step up — it's men".The 19th News.2025-08-26.https://19thnews.org/2025/08/fertility-rates-traditionalism-research/.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  17. ↑ "Bell Ringer: Claudia Goldin".C-SPAN.2025-09-22.https://www.c-span.org/classroom/document/?24883.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  18. ↑ "Pika".Harvard University.https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/pages/pika.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  19. ↑ "Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics".Northwestern University.https://www.nemmers.northwestern.edu/.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  20. ↑ "BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award".EurekAlert.2019-03-26.https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/bf-tbf032619.php.Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  21. ↑ "IZA Prize in Labor Economics".IZA Institute of Labor Economics.https://web.archive.org/web/20180908212243/http://legacy.iza.org/en/webcontent/prize/iza_prize.Retrieved 2026-02-24.

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