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PhD Economics University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Claudia Dale Goldin 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 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes,” as well as the root causes of the gender pay gap. She was the third woman to win the award, and the first woman to win the award solo.

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The Race Between Education And Technology (2008) (2741)
A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter (2014) (1551)
Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians (1997) (1462)
The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women’s Career and Marriage Decisions (2002) (1301)
The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap (2006) (1121)
The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity (1996) (1097)
The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women’s Employment, Education, and Family (2006) (1051)
Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors (2010) (999)
The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History (1994) (852)
The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid- Century (1991) (671)
Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (1990) (531)
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal ? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination (2007) (462)
America's Graduation from High School: The Evolution and Spread of Secondary Schooling in the Twentieth Century (1998) (402)
Understanding The Gender Gap (1992) (395)
The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005 (2007) (383)
The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940 (1998) (304)
Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of (1997) (299)
The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1890 to 1921 (1993) (276)
The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (1997) (266)
Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex: A Historical Analysis (1985) (236)
Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 19101940 (1998) (235)
The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study (2014) (232)
The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why it Mattered (2004) (214)
Can Online Learning Bend the Higher Education Cost Curve? (2015) (210)
Why the United States Led in Education: Lessons from Secondary School Expansion, 1910 to 1940 (1997) (208)
Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses (1981) (204)
Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940 (1998) (190)
Career and Family: College Women Look to the Past (1995) (184)
A Most Egalitarian Profession: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation (2016) (179)
A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings (2002) (175)
The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family (2004) (161)
Introduction to "The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy" (1994) (159)
Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges (2012) (153)
Egalitarianism and the Returns to Education during the Great Transformation of American Education (1999) (146)
The Cost of Workplace Flexibility for High-Powered Professionals (2011) (145)
Parental Altruism and Self-Interest: Child Labor among Late Nineteenth-Century American Families (1989) (142)
Residual Differences by Sex: Perspectives on the Gender Gap in Earnings (1987) (141)
Career and Marriage in the Age of the Pill. (2000) (139)
Technology, Skill, and the Wage Structure: Insights from the Past (1996) (139)
The Expanding Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from the LEHD-2000 Census (2017) (136)
Watersheds in Child Mortality: The Role of Effective Water and Sewerage Infrastructure, 1880–1920 (2015) (136)
The Economic Cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and Implications (1975) (130)
The Role of World War Ii in the Rise of Women's Work (1989) (130)
A Brief History of Education in the United States (1999) (120)
Front matter, Corruption and Reform. Lessons from America's Economic History (2006) (119)
Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors (2009) (118)
The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization: The American Case, 1820-1850 (1981) (118)
Making a Name: Women's Surnames at Marriage and Beyond (2004) (117)
Shocking Labor Supply: A Reassessment of the Role of World War Ii on U.S. Women&Apos;S Labor Supply (2013) (113)
The Legacy of U.S. Educational Leadership: Notes on Distribution and Economic Growth in the 20th Century (2001) (111)
Education and Income in the Early 20th Century: Evidence from the Prairies (1999) (99)
The New Lifecycle of Women's Employment: Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops (2016) (99)
For-Profit Colleges (2013) (97)
The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the Gender Gap in College (2006) (94)
The Decline of Non-Competing Groups: Changes in the Premium to Education, 1890 to 1940 (1995) (86)
Mass Secondary Schooling and the State: The Role of State Compulsion in the High School Movement (2008) (86)
The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy (1996) (86)
Mass Secondary Schooling and the State (2003) (85)
The Meaning of College in the Lives of American Women: the Past One-Hundred Years (1992) (85)
Cliometrics and the Nobel (1994) (83)
Decreasing (and then Increasing) Inequality in America: A Tale of Two Half-Centuries (2001) (82)
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. (1976) (82)
The Rise of the Fourth Estate (2006) (79)
Female Labor Force Participation: The Origin of Black and White Differences, 1870 and 1880 (1977) (75)
Strategic factors in nineteenth century American economic history : a volume to honor Robert W. Fogel (1992) (70)
Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820-1860: A Quantitative History (1976) (65)
The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender (2002) (64)
The Most Egalitarian of All Professions: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation (2012) (56)
The Savings of Ordinary Americans: The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1992) (55)
The Historical Evolution of Female Earnings Functions and Occupations (1980) (53)
Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets Before the Civil War (1989) (50)
Sustaining U.S. Economic Growth (2003) (48)
THE EFFECTS OF GEOGRAPHIC INTEGRATION AND INCREASING COMPETITION IN THE MARKET FOR COLLEGE EDUCATION (2000) (47)
Extending the Race between Education and Technology (2020) (46)
The Female Labor Force and American Economic Growth,1890-1980 (1986) (46)
The "Virtues" of the Past: Education in the First Hundred Years of the New Republic (2003) (43)
The Work and Wages of Single Women, 1870 to 1920 (1979) (42)
Household and Market Production of Families in a Late Nineteenth Century American City (1979) (42)
The Economics of Emancipation (1973) (42)
What Can Uwe Do for Economics? (2018) (41)
The Economic Status of Women in the Early Republic: Quantitative Evidence (1986) (41)
A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation (1997) (41)
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (review) (2002) (40)
Seasonality in Nineteenth Century Labor Markets (1991) (40)
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History (1992) (39)
Maximum Hours Legislation and Female Employment: A Reassessment (1988) (39)
Patterns of Social Capital: Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910–1940 (2000) (38)
Marriage Bars: Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920&Apos;S to 1950&Apos;S (1988) (38)
From the Valley to the Summit: The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women&Apos;S Work (2004) (33)
The Origins of State-Level Differences in the Public Provision of Higher Education: 1890-1940 (1998) (32)
The poor at birth: Birth weights and infant mortality at Philadelphia's almshouse hospital, 1848–1873 (1989) (31)
How America Graduated from High School: 1910 to 1960 (1994) (29)
Putting the “Co” in Education: Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present (2010) (29)
“The changing economic role of women: A quantitative approach” (1983) (28)
The Human Capital Century. (2003) (28)
Women Working Longer: Facts and Some Explanations (2016) (27)
Xx>Xy?: The Changing Female Advantage in Life Expectancy (2018) (26)
The role of exports in American economic growth during the napoleonic wars, 1793 to 1807 (1980) (25)
In the company of educated women: A history of women and higher education in America: By Barbara Miller Solomon. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986. xxi + 298 pp., illus. Price U.S.$14.95 (paper) (1995) (25)
Can I Get Some Service Here (2007) (25)
The Future of Inequality The Other Reason Education Matters So Much (2009) (24)
The Regulated Economy (1994) (22)
Blood Rubber: The Effects of Labor Coercion on Institutions and Culture in the DRC* (2016) (22)
N kinds of freedom : An introduction to the issues (1979) (20)
Kinship Systems, Gender Norms, and Household Bargaining: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt * Most Recent Version Here (2016) (20)
Work and Women′s Marriage, Fertility and Empowerment: Evidence from Textile Mill Employment in India∗ (2014) (18)
Corruption and Reform (2008) (17)
Mommies and Daddies on the Fast Track: Success of Parents in Demanding Professions (2004) (17)
Appendix to: "How America Graduated from High School, 1910 to 1960", Construction of State-Level Secondary School Data (1994) (17)
Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity (2021) (17)
From the valley to the summit: a brief history of the quiet revolution that transformed women's work (2004) (16)
Marriage Bars: Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920's to 1950's (1988) (16)
The Earnings Gap between Male and Female Workers: an Historical Perspective (1986) (15)
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth-Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel (1994) (15)
Exploring the "Present through the Past": Career and Family across the Last Century (1997) (14)
The Post-Bellum Recovery of the South and the Cost of the Civil War: Comment (1978) (14)
Introduction to "Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages" (2017) (14)
On the Pill: Changing the Course of Women's Education (2001) (14)
The shaping of higher education in the United States and New England (2001) (13)
The Career Cost of Family (2010) (12)
XX > XY?: The changing female advantage in life expectancy. (2019) (12)
‘ Til Death Do Us Part : Effects of Divorce Laws on Suicide , Domestic Violence and Spousal Murder (2000) (11)
How Japan and the Us Can Reduce the Stress of Aging (2016) (11)
The Defining Moment (2007) (10)
Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate † (2018) (9)
Ideal Vouchers (2001) (9)
Economic Well-Being and Child Labor: The Inter Action of Family and Industry (1981) (9)
Hours Constraints , Occupational Choice and Fertility : (2015) (8)
American leadership in the human capital century: have the virtues of the past become the vices of the present? (2002) (8)
Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave: An Exploratory Study (2020) (8)
The Incubator of Human Capital: The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm (2020) (7)
The Poor at Birth: Infant Auxology and Mortality at Philadelphia&Apos;S Almshouse Hospital, 1848-1873 (1988) (7)
Exploring the Present Through the Past (2007) (7)
Egalitarianism and the Returns to Education during the Great Transformation of Education in America (1999) (7)
The Human Capital Century: U.S. Schools Led the World during Much of the 20th Century. Will They Continue to Do So? (Research) (2003) (6)
Women's Work and Family Values, 1920–1940. By Winifred D. Wandersee. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. 165. $18.50 (1981) (6)
The Long-Term E↵ects of the Printing Press in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014) (6)
Women Working Longer (2018) (6)
The Defining Moment Hypothesis: The Editors' Introduction (1998) (6)
The B- Economics Major: Can and Should We Do Better? (1991) (5)
The Development of the American Economy (1992) (5)
"A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter." Am. Econ. Rev. 104 (2014): 1-30. (2014) (4)
As Minority Becomes Majority: Federal Reaction to the Phenomenon of Women in the Work Force, 1920–1963. By Judith Sealander, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 201. $27.95 (1983) (4)
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel. A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. (1994) (4)
Beyond the Classroom : Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports (2010) (4)
Making a Name (2001) (4)
Diabetics--inter-racial comparisons. II. Retinopathy and heart disease. (1966) (4)
Maximum Hours Legislation and Female Employment in the 1920s: a Reasse Ssment (1986) (3)
RETINOPATHY IN WOMEN OVER 45 YEARS OF AGE ATTENDING A DIABETES CLINIC, INCLUDING ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THERAPY WITH SULPHONYLUREAS. (1963) (3)
Resubmitted to the Journal of the European Economic Association Social Cohesion, Culture and Economic Behaviour: Irish Dairying Before the Great War (2004) (3)
Strength and Power in the Industrial Revolution (2009) (3)
Older Women’s Labor Market Attachment, Retirement Planning, and Household Debt (2018) (3)
Flowers of Invention: Patent Protection and Productivity Growth in US Agriculture (2021) (2)
An Economic History of Women in America: Women's Work, the Sexual Division of Labor, and the Development of Capitalism . By Julie A. Matthaei. New York: Schocken Books, 1982. Pp. xiv, 381. $29.50. (1983) (2)
Understanding Why Black Women Are Not Working Longer (2018) (2)
Property Rights, Social Cohesion and Innovation: Evidence from the Creameries (2003) (2)
Blood Rubber: The Effects of Labor Coercion on Development and Culture in the DRC (preliminary draft)⇤ (2015) (2)
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth-Century Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel. (1993) (2)
Women Working Longer: Labor Market Implications of Providing Family Care (2018) (2)
Historians' Consensus on the Economic Role of Women in American History: A Review Essay (1983) (2)
Farm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830–1860. Edited by Thomas Dublin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 191, $17.50 (1982) (2)
Changes in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women (2018) (2)
Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm (2020) (2)
Teaching, Teachers’ Pensions, and Retirement across Recent Cohorts of College Graduate Women (2018) (1)
In Memorium: Robert W. Fogel (2013) (1)
The E ciency Frontier for Economic Growth: Evidence of a Nonlinear Frontier Relationship Between Volatility and Growth (1998) (1)
The Role of Social Security Benefits in the Initial Increase of Older Women’s Employment: Evidence from the Social Security Notch (2018) (1)
Building Inclusive Career Paths around Caregiving: Constraints and Strategies (2019) (1)
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honour Robert Fogel. (1993) (1)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of theJEP (2002) (1)
Unintended Pregnancy and Public Policy (2014) (1)
Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810–1850. By Diane Lindstrom. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. ix + 255 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $16.50.) (1979) (1)
Early-Life Education and Late-Life Outcomes: Exposure to Pre-School 1943-46 and Well-Being After Age 50 (2018) (1)
Claudia Goldin and Gary D. Libecap, eds., The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy , Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. viii + 312. $56.00 (ISBN 0-226-30110-9). (1997) (1)
The Opt-In Revolution: Contraception, Women's Labor Supply and the Gender Gap in Wages (2009) (1)
Data for: XX>XY? The Changing Female Advantage in Life Expectancy (2019) (1)
Dissertations Supervised by Robert W. Fogel (1992) (0)
Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century American . Edited by Tamara K. Hareven and Maris A. Vinovskis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 250. $25.00 cloth, $9.75 paper. (1979) (0)
President’s Foreword (2013) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TUSKEGEE AND THE HEALTH OF BLACK MEN (2016) (0)
Appendix: The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) (2017) (0)
Women and the Labor Market@@@Understanding the Gender Gap (1992) (0)
Replication data for: The Expanding Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from the LEHD-2000 Census (2019) (0)
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel (1994) (0)
American Slavery: De Jure and De Facto@@@This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South@@@The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 (1979) (0)
Meritocracy and Economic Inequality (review) (2000) (0)
Human Capital (2019) (0)
:Meritocracy and Economic Inequality . Edited by Kenneth Arrow , Samuel Bowles, and Steven Durlauf ( Princeton , Princeton University Press , 2000) 348 pp.$59.95 cloth $19.95 paper (2000) (0)
7. Urbanization and Slavery: The Issue of Compatibility (2015) (0)
Education, the Wage Structure, and Technological Change: Learning about the Present through the Past (1997) (0)
Economic History Association Slavery and Supervision in Comparative Perspective : A Model (2007) (0)
Discussion of 'Unemployment and Income Distribution' (1998) (0)
The Hidden Resources of Women Working Longer: Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data (2018) (0)
The Return to Work and Women's Employment Decisions (2018) (0)
Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995. By Julia Kirk Blackwelder ( College Station , Texas A&M University Press , 1997 ) 308 pp. $39.95 cloth $17.95 paper (1998) (0)
High-Powered Professionals (2011) (0)
Name (Program) Email/Primary Fields/JMP/Advisors and References (2013) (0)
The Future of Inequality (2022) (0)
Book Review: Economic and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Women's Quest for Economic Equality (1990) (0)
PRELIMINARY—DO NOT CITE Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Fertility Control Access on the 19th Century Demographic Transition by (2009) (0)
The Writings of Robert W. Fogel (1992) (0)
Brave New Families@@@New Families, No Families? The Transformation of the American Home. (1992) (0)
Readings Lecture 1 : The Economic Impact of Western Penetration : the case of Protestantism (2014) (0)
Front matter, The Defining Moment (1998) (0)
2. Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets before the Civil War (2019) (0)
Women in the Labor Force in a Developing Country : Geographical and Sectoral Labor Market Segmentation and Returns to Human Capital Within a Double Selectivity Model (2007) (0)
PETER D. MCCLELLAND. Causal Explanation and Model Building in History, Economics, and the New Economic History. Pp. 290. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975. $12.50 (1976) (0)
Issues in Political Economy, Vol 29(2), 2020, 141-164 Women in Labor Market: The Effect of Years of Schooling on Labor Force Participation in the Service, Industrial, and Agricultural Sectors across Countries (2020) (0)
List of contributors, Indexes (1998) (0)
The Development of the American Economy Program (2017) (0)
Front Matter (“Table of Contents”) (2021) (0)
Strategic Campaign Sentiment by Charles Crabtree (2018) (0)
Career and Family (2021) (0)
American Inequality: A Macroeconomic History (1982) (0)
Patent Protection, Invention, and Productivity Growth∗ (2020) (0)
Comment on Alston and Shlomowitz (1979) (0)
The labor market and poverty impacts of covid- in South Africa (2020) (0)
2 The Harvard College Economist Thank You (2001) (0)
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States (2013) (0)
Book Reviews 1345 The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Michael D. Bordo, (1998) (0)
Regulation in Nineteenth- Century U.S. Banking (1994) (0)
CHAPTER SIX Seasonality in Nineteenth-Century Labor Markets (1994) (0)
The Urban Threshold . By Stuart M. Blumin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pp. xiv, 298. (1977) (0)
Development of the American Economy. (Program Report) (2002) (0)
PRELIMINARY—DO NOT CITE Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Abortion and Birth Control Access on the 19th Century Demographic Transition by (2009) (0)
Robert William Fogel remembrance (2014) (0)

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