The Nobel Economics Prize was on Monday awarded to Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard University for her research on women in the labor market, Ednews informs via CNBC.
The winners of the award, which is officially titled the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, receive 10 million Swedish krona ($907,000) between them.
Last year’s prize went to US-based economists Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig for their work on banks and financial crises.
The Nobel Committee said their research in the early 1980s had “significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises,” and in showing the importance of avoiding bank collapses. They added this was “invaluable” during the 2008-09 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.
