22 Facts About Claudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin was born on May 14,1946 and is an American economic historian and labor economist who is currently the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Claudia Goldin is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy Study Group and was the director of the NBER's Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017.

In 1990, Claudia Goldin became the first tenured woman at Harvard's economics department.

Claudia Goldin was born in New York City in 1946 to a Jewish family and grew up in the Parkchester housing complex in the Bronx.

Claudia Goldin began her doctoral program in that field, but after Gary Becker came to Chicago she added labor economics and then gravitated to economic history with Robert W Fogel.

Claudia Goldin wrote her PhD dissertation on slavery in US antebellum cities and in southern industry.

Directly after graduate school, Claudia Goldin taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Claudia Goldin moved to Princeton University in 1972 and to the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, where she became a tenured full professor.

Claudia Goldin joined the economics department at Harvard University in 1990, where she was the first woman to be offered tenure in that department.

Claudia Goldin has been elected fellow of numerous organizations, including the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Society of Labor Economists, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Claudia Goldin is a member of sections 53 and 54 of the National Academy of Sciences.

Claudia Goldin has received several honorary doctorates including the University of Nebraska, Lund University, the European University Institute, the University of Zurich, Dartmouth College, and the University of Rochester.

Claudia Goldin was an editor of the Journal of Economic History, from 1984 to 1988, and the editor of the NBER Long-term Factors in Economic Development Monograph Series from 1990 to 2017.

In 2015, with funding from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Goldin initiated the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge to understand why the fraction female among undergraduate majors in economics was low.

Claudia Goldin ran a randomized controlled trial using twenty institutions as treatments and others as controls to see if low-cost interventions could increase the number of female economics majors.

Claudia Goldin is best known for her historical work on women and the economy.

Claudia Goldin began her career researching the history of the US southern economy.

Claudia Goldin later worked with the Kenneth Sokoloff on early industrialization in the US and the role of female workers, child labor, and immigrant and working-class families.

Claudia Goldin then worked with Lawrence Katz to understand the history of economic inequality in America and its relationship to educational advances.

Claudia Goldin continued to work on various topics of current concern, and many became part of volumes she jointly edited.

Claudia Goldin then began to focus on college women's quest for career and family and the reasons for the persistent gender gap in earnings.

Claudia Goldin has had Golden Retrievers ever since 1970, starting with Kelso.