The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to American economist and historian Claudia Goldin.
Goldin “provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labor market outcomes throughout the centuries,” according to the committee that gave her the honor, officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel.
Goldin, who is based at Harvard University, is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on the gender gap in labor economics worldwide. She is just the third woman to get the award; the other two were Esther Duflo in 2019 and Elinor Ostrom in 2009.
Simon Jäger, director of the Institute for the Future of Work (IZA) in Bonn knows Goldin from his time studying for a doctorate at Harvard University. “She is a very special researcher and a very special person,” he told DW. He said the award was “well-deserved” for an “outstanding” researcher and academic.
Possibly the most distinguished honor in the field of economics, the prize. Some of the most significant and well-known economists of the 20th century are included in the list of its 92 past laureates.
Three American economists, Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig, shared the award equally last year for their work on banking and financial crises.
But there has been some controversy around the award. It has been the subject of heated debate, ranging from the argument over whether it should even be considered a Nobel Prize to numerous differences on some of the winners.
