Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research
Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. She is a co-director of the NBER’s Gender in the Economy Study Group. An economic historian and a labour economist, Goldin’s research covers a wide range of topics, including the female labour force, the gender gap in earnings, income inequality, technological change, and education. Most of her research interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of current issues of concern.
She is the author and editor of several books, among them Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (1990), The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy (1994), The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (1998), Corruption and Reform: Lesson’s from America’s Economic History (2006), and Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages (2018). The Race between Education and Technology (2008, 2010) was the winner of the 2008 R.R. Hawkins Award for the most outstanding scholarly work in all disciplines. Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity will be released October 2021.
Goldin was the president of the American Economic Association in 2013 and of the Economic History Association in 1999/2000. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of numerous scholarly societies. She received the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2016, the 2019 BBVA Frontiers in Knowledge award, and the 2020 Nemmers award. Goldin received her B.A. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She lives in Cambridge MA with her husband Larry Katz, and her dog Pika.