Claudia Goldin







The alias that I was assigned to is Claudia Goldin. She is an economic historian, a labor economist, and one of the ten most influential female economists in the world. Goldin is a professor of economics at Harvard University. Moreover, she was the director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s development program until 2017. Her research topics are wide ranging, for example; income inequality, education, and the gender pay gap. Currently, her research is about achievement of career, family, and college women`s aspiration. Furthermore, she has written texts including Women Working Longer and “The Expanding Gender Earnings Gap.”

In 1946, Goldin was born in the Bronx. She studied microbiology at Cornell University. Additionally, she achieved her doctorate in industrial organizations and labor economy at the University of Chicago.

She is also known for working for women’s rights in the US economy. “Its deceptively easy to calculate how much or how little women in the United States earn relative to men,” says Goldin. Her explanation is that men and women are not paid differently for the same work rather that they are working in different fields. Therefore, the work of women is undervalued.  

Sources:
https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/biocv
https://harvardmagazine.com/2016/05/reassessing-the-gender-wage-gap



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  1. Professor ArvanSeptember 11, 2019

    I share one thing with Goldin. I too was born in the Bronx, but nine years later. The gender earnings gap is interesting. I can only comment about how it has played out in my household. My wife became a stay home mom when my career as an administrator was in the takeoff phase. She has since returned to work and risen pretty far in the campus hierarchy, while most of the time I've been retired. I did get the better end of that deal, but I think it's worked out reasonably well for both of us.

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