Il Nobel Prize for Economics 2023 has been assigned to Claudia Goldin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Goldin, a 77-year-old American professor, was honored for her role in having “increased our knowledge on women's participation in the labor market".
Goldin's research covers a variety of topics, including the female workforce, the gender wage gap, income inequality, technological change, and immigration.
Goldin is only the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics has had a very low representation of female winners. Before her, out of a total of 93 winners, they had only won Elinor Ostrom in 2009 ed Esther duflo, in 2019. He was the only Italian winner Franco Modigliani in 1985 for his work on savings and financial markets.
The history of the Nobel Prize for economics
The Nobel Prize in Economics is not a real Nobel Prize. In fact, unlike the other prizes, this prize was not provided for in Alfred Nobel's will. In reality, it's about the Prize from the Bank of Sweden for economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel. And in any case managed by the Nobel Foundation and therefore commonly called the Nobel Prize. The main difference with the other five prizes is that this award is not financed with the returns of the capital left by Alfred Nobel, but it is financed by the Central Bank of Sweden. The amount of the endowment is the same as that of the other five.
Il Prize from the Bank of Sweden for economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel was established in 1968 by Sveriges Riksbank to celebrate its three hundredth anniversary. The first prize in economic sciences was awarded the following year to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen.
The latest winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics
THELast year the prize had gone to the former president of the Fed Bernanke and his colleagues Diamond and Dybvig for research on banks, financial crises and the regulation of financial markets. In 2021, however, the recognition went to David Card “for his empirical contribution regarding the labor market” and to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens “for their methodological contributions to analyzes of causal relationships”.
The 2023 Nobel Prize winners
The Nobel Prize in Economics was the latest award awarded for 2023. Last week, the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023 it went to two scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman “for their discoveries that made possible the development of effective mRna-based vaccines against Covid-19”. The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 has been assigned to Narges Mohammadic, the Iranian "Woman-Life-Freedom" activist who has been in prison for years. Jon fosse, Norwegian author, won the Nobel Prize for literature “for theatrical works and innovative prose”. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2023 it was assigned, instead, to Moungi Bawendi, Louis E Brus e Alexey Ekimov for nanotechnologies, with the discovery of the quantum dot while while that for Physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Klausz e Anne L'Huillier for their experimental methods that generate Actosecond light pulses to study the dynamics of electrons in matter.
