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First woman with an independent ‘Nobel Prize in Economics’- comment from our researcher

Goldin’s award may seem a bit surprising. She has been involved in explaining ‘women’s issues’ in economics for more than thirty years, but these can hardly be considered wholly original or groundbreaking. Moreover, one does not have to look long to find scholars with a similar body of work on the same topics – writes dr Alicja Sielska.

This year’s ‘Nobel Prize in Economics’ went to a Harvard professor. Klaudia Goldin was singled out for ‘deepening our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes’. The laureate not only considered issues of education or technology affecting gender differences, but also devoted much space to the issue of women’s lower wages relative to those of men. This is only the third award for a woman in this field and hopefully not the last.

Dr Alicja Sielska (a research and teaching fellow at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław) took an interest in the topic. The researcher developed it in the form of an article by Claudia Goldin – the first woman with an independent ‘Nobel Prize in Economics’. The text was published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute for Economic Education. The entire article, also downloadable for e-readers, can be found on the website of the Mises Institute.