Posted 10/9/2023, 9:51:22 AM
Harvard Economist Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics for Research on Women in Labor Market, Becomes 3rd Woman to Receive Prestigious Award
- Harvard economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in economics for research on women in labor market
- She is 3rd woman to receive the economics Nobel
- Prize created in 1968 by Sweden's central bank
- Honors work related to economics in memory of Alfred Nobel
- Last year's winners studied bank failures and financial crises
- Nobel Prizes awarded for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, and peace
- Winners receive cash award of about $1 million from Alfred Nobel's estate
- Prize money raised this year due to drop in value of Swedish currency