Harvard professor Claudia Goldin just won the Nobel Prize in economics, the third woman to do so. Goldin has been studying women's labor and the gender wage gap for decades. We know this thanks to decades of research by Claudia Goldin, who just won the Nobel Prize in economics. Mothers can make up ground relative to non-mothers, Kerr said, but "the gender gap is just way too large between parents." AdvertisementAdvertisement"There are lots of people doing such research now, and I think that this means that they'll see that it is important and that it's recognized," Goldin said.

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Persons: Claudia Goldin, Goldin, —, Lawrence Katz, Marianne Bertrand, Z, that's, they're, Sari Pekkala Kerr, Claudia Olivetti, Kerr, she's, it's, " Goldin Organizations: Service, Pew Research, Wellesley College Locations: Harvard