Claudia Goldin

2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics

CESifo and CES have a double reason to celebrate Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded on the 9th October: first, now there is a full dozen CESifo Network members who are Nobel laureates; second, Claudia makes now 6 out of 30 Distinguished CES Fellows who have received the coveted call from Stockholm. Who else can say that fully 20 percent of those selected for such an academic distinction as the CES Fellowship would also go on to get the Nobel one?

Claudia Goldin is a pioneer in studying the role of women in the labour market and how this role has evolved through the years. She trawled through two centuries worth of data to draw her insights, often doing detective work to unearth the relevant data when it referred to periods far in the past, when no systematic gathering or storage of such data existed.

Claudia is special in more than one way: she is also just the third woman ever to be awarded what is officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and she is also the first woman ever to be granted tenure at Harvard.

Our warmest congratulations to Claudia for her well-deserved distinction.