ECONOMIST

Claudia Goldin

1946 - Today

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Claudia Dale Goldin (born May 14, 1946) is an American economic historian and labor economist. She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. In October 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes”. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claudia Goldin has received more than 580,088 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Claudia Goldin is the 92nd most popular economist (up from 354th in 2019), the 1,247th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,697th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Economist.

Claudia Goldin is a Nobel Prize winner and best known as a Harvard economist who has extensively researched and written on the history and economics of women in the workforce, particularly the gender wage gap and the evolution of female labor force participation in the U.S.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Claudia Goldin ranks 92 out of 414Before her are James M. Buchanan, Alfred Weber, Charles Cooley, William Vickrey, Robert Reich, and Robert Lucas Jr.. After her are Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, George Akerlof, Jacques Attali, Dale T. Mortensen, Gottfried Feder, and Hermann Heinrich Gossen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Claudia Goldin ranks 102Before her are Steve Biko, Paul L. Modrich, Ajda Pekkan, Jean Todt, Demetris Christofias, and Robert Reich. After her are Kim Kyong-hui, Pete Postlethwaite, Aziz Sancar, Deepak Chopra, Edita Gruberová, and Marisa Paredes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Claudia Goldin ranks 1,247 out of 20,380Before her are Uma Thurman (1970), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Mario Lanza (1921), Valerie Solanas (1936), Gerald Edelman (1929), and Kathryn Bigelow (1951). After her are Evander Holyfield (1962), Jacque Fresco (1916), Marvin Minsky (1927), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Charles Sweeney (1919), and Ethan Hawke (1970).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Claudia Goldin ranks 28Before her are Edmund Phelps (1933), Lawrence Klein (1920), James M. Buchanan (1919), Charles Cooley (1864), Robert Reich (1946), and Robert Lucas Jr. (1937). After her are George Akerlof (1940), Dale T. Mortensen (1939), Douglas McGregor (1906), Thomas Schelling (1921), Thomas J. Sargent (1943), and William Nordhaus (1941).