The Rockwool Foundation Berlin pleased to announce its Annual Public Lecture, organized in collaboration with the Humboldt University of Berlin! This year, RFBerlin welcomes Nobel Prize laureate Claudia Goldin with her lecture “Why Women Won”.
Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and holds the Lee and Ezpeleta Professorship of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University.
She was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017 and is a co-director of the NBER’s Gender in the Economy group. Goldin was awarded the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
As an economic historian and a labor economist, Goldin’s research covers a wide range of topics, including the female labor force, the gender gap in earnings, income inequality, technological change and education. Most of her research interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of current issues of concern.
Time: 16:00 – 18:00, Tuesday 4 November 2025
Location: Lecture Hall 201 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Spandauer Straße 1, 10178 Berlin
A registration to the lecture is advised. More information and the link for registration can be found here.