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Sidelined no longer, Claudia Goldin wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for examining why gender pay gaps persist

In an astonishing act of timing, Harvard University’s Professor Claudia Goldin published a paper on Monday titled Why Women Won. It mapped milestone moments in women’s rights in the United States from 1905 to 2023.

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Nobel prize in economics: Claudia Goldin's work is a goldmine for understanding the gender pay gap and women's empowerment

Women stirred up a “quiet revolution” in the labour market, according to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the 2023 winner of the Nobel prize in economics for her analysis of gender differences in the labour market, particularly the persistent problem of the…

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‘She inspired me then; she inspires me now’: Sheryl Sandberg on Harvard professor winning the Nobel Prize

In an exclusive interview, Sheryl Sandberg talks to Sheila Flynn about how Claudia Goldin, the Harvard economics professor who won the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday, has spent decades doing work on women’s labor that “really matters”

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How the pill smashed early marriage and boosted women’s rise up the corporate ladder — but still wasn’t enough to make women’s pay equal to men’s

Research by Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin unearths the myriad factors behind the gender pay gap.

Fortune

Claudia Goldin wins Nobel economics prize for work on gender pay gap

Harvard professor becomes only the third woman to win the prestigious prize

The Guardian - UK

Economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize for work on gender gap

Goldin is the third woman so far to be awarded the prestigious economics prize.

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Economics Nobel Prize goes to Claudia Goldin, an expert on women at work

Harvard University's Claudia Goldin has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on women in the labor market. She studies the causes of the persistent pay gap between men and women.

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US professor Claudia Goldin wins Nobel economics prize for work on women's labour

The Nobel economics prize was awarded Monday to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin for research that has advanced the understanding of the gender gap in the labor market.

France 24

The winner of the Nobel memorial economics prize is set to be announced in Sweden

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is set to be announced in Sweden

The Independent UK

Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’

The Nobel prize winner and author of new book Economics in America argues economists must get back to serving society

The Guardian - US

Why the 'drug dealers defence' doesn't work for exporting coal. It's actually Economics 101

In defending a Federal Court case brought by opponents of her decisions to approve two export coal mines, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is relying in part on what critics call the “drug dealer’s defence”.

The Conversation

89 newsrooms across the world are experimenting with AI: Survey

“More than 75 percent of respondents use AI in at least one of the areas across the news value chain of news gathering, production and distribution,” as per a global survey of 105 newsrooms across 46 countries, published by the London School of Economics and Politics in collaboration with Google…

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Rising number of ‘predatory’ academic journals undermines research and public trust in scholarship

Predatory journals could weaken public confidence in the validity of research on everything from health and agriculture to economics and journalism.

The Hindu

Boys from the Blackstuff review – powerful portrayals of working-class pride

James Graham’s funny and violent TV adaptation belies a sensitive study of male mental health, as right-wing economics hits a group of road layers’ lives

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One in six chance of a ‘species-ending event’ in next century, Labor MP Andrew Leigh warns

Exclusive: Former economics professor says biggest dangers humans face are ‘the ones that our technologies’ have wreaked

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Money Talks in College Football, Just Ask Portland State

What the Vikings’ wild opening weeks reveal about the economics of college sports.

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s Tories, Starmer’s Labour: Britain is stuck in a doom loop of failed economics. Here’s the way out

We rely on too many old ideas. Governments must foster growth that is innovative and sustainable, says economist Mariana Mazzucato

The Guardian - UK

Populists are bad for our economic health, yet they’re still a hard habit to break

They are annoyingly good at politics but terrible at economics – GDP and living standards plummet in countries led by them

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UK economics professor has a few theories about skyrocketing auto insurance rates

The latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics are almost enough to force folks off the road – a 19 percent increase in auto insurance rates. Dr. Aaron Yelowitz is an economics professor at the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Economics. He has a few theories about…

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When four politicians walk into a room

There were, says Grant Robertson, a lot of professors of hindsight economics in the room at the ASB Queenstown finance debate. Newsroom's Jonathan Milne was also there.

The Conversation

South Africa can't crack the inequality curse. Why, and what can be done

South Africa is ranked one of the most unequal societies in the world. The Conversation Africa spoke to Imraan Valodia, the Director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, about inequality in South Africa.

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Greens attack Scottish freeports plan as 'repeat of trickle-down economics'

FREEPORTS are a repeat of the failed ‘trickle-down economics’ experiment of the 1980s, a Scottish Greens MSP has said.

The Hindu

Naidu formed Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation without approval of State Cabinet, alleges AP-CID

Even as the arrest of TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu in the alleged skill development corporation scam has triggered a debate over the law taking its course versus political vendetta, the prime task before the Economics Offence Wing (EOW) of the Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department (AP-CID) is to…

The Hindu

College student appears for exam on her wedding day

Sathyavathi B. surprised her classmates by running from her marriage hall to her college in Shivamogga to take her final semester exam. She and her husband Francis, who met two years ago, had a simple marriage at her home. After completing her Economics paper, they returned to the marriage hall…

France 24

Fatal stabbing of Gabonese student highlights 'daily' racism faced by Africans in Russia

François Ndzhelassili, a doctoral student from Gabon at the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia, was killed on August 18 by a group of Russian men after they harassed him and called him racial slurs. The murder is just the latest case of discrimination and violence against Black people living…

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