2023-10-09 19:43:32
It’s the last one of the season. The 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded this Monday morning to the American Claudia Goldin, professor at Harvard and specialist in labor and economic history, for her research on labor markets and gender equality. The laureate, the third woman to win the prize, has “advanced our understanding of the situation of women in the labor market”, announced the Nobel jury. She is 77 years old.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/FRAayC3Jwb— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 9, 2023
“Claudia Goldin has delved into archives and collected more than 200 years of data on the United States, allowing her to show how and why differences in income and employment rates between men and women have evolved over time,” said Randi Hjalmarsson, of the Nobel jury.
Harvard congratulated on X (ex-Twitter) her professor, specifying that one of her studies had revealed “that despite the “stress, anxiety and frustrations” of the pandemic, women with a university degree largely continued to work”. Claudia Goldin’s latest work published in 2021 is entitled “Career and Family”. It deals in particular with the participation of women in the American labor market.
Historically, much of the gender gap in earnings could be explained by differences in education and occupational choices. However, this year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin has shown that the bulk of this earnings difference is now between men and women in the same… pic.twitter.com/MGWou9hHZx
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 9, 2023
This award, the latest Nobel, has been awarded since 1969. Despite the victory of a researcher this year, this category still appears as a parity dunce. Only two women have won it, the American Elinor Ostrom (2009) and the Franco-American Esther Duflo (2019).
Work on banks rewarded last year
Last year, the prize went to Ben Bernanke, the former president of the American central bank (Fed) and his compatriots Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, for their work on banks and their necessary rescues during financial storms.
Created by the Bank of Sweden, the economics prize “in memory of Alfred Nobel” was added in 1969 to the five traditional prizes (medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace) more than sixty years after the others, he earning his detractors the nickname “false Nobel”. Like the other Nobels, the prize is endowed with 11 million Swedish crowns (920,000 euros), to be shared among co-winners, the highest nominal value (in Swedish currency) in the more than century-old history of the prize.
For the 2023 season, the most prestigious Nobel Prize, that of peace, was awarded last Friday to the imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi. Previously, the Norwegian Jon Fosse had been rewarded in literature. The chemistry prize was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov for their work on nanoparticles called quantum dots. In physics, three specialists in the movement of electrons were awarded the prize, Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz, and in medicine a duo, Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, for their progress on the messenger RNA vaccine.
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