The 15th IZA Prize in Labor Economics was formally conferred to Claudia Goldin during the traditional IZA Reception at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations in Chicago on January 6, 2017. After introductions by Hilmar Schneider (CEO of IZA) and Daniel S. Hamermesh (Chief Coordinator of the IZA Network), laudatory remarks were given by Shelly Lundberg (UC Santa Barbara; IZA Prize Committee member), Robert A. Margo (Boston University) and Price V. Fishback (University of Arizona).
Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. The 2016 IZA Prize recognizes her career-long work on the economic history of women in education and the labor market. Read more about the laureate, her impressive vita, her “detective work” as an economic historian and labor economist, and her insights on the gender gap:
- Claudia Goldin (Interview in Econ Focus, 2014)
- “Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap” (Interview in Harvard Magazine, May 2016)
- “The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap” (Freakonomics, 2016)
- “Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics” (The Harvard Crimson, 2007)
- “Exploring the Present Through the Past” (Interview in World Economics, 2007)
- “The Economist as Detective” [doc file] (brief autobiographical essay, 1998)
- Harvard profile page | IZA profile page
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