Nobel Prize

The Many Wins Represented by Claudia Goldin’s  Nobel Prize
Impact
October 12, 2023

The Many Wins Represented by Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize

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Harvard’s Claudia Goldin Receives Nobel for Work on Gender Labor Gap
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October 10, 2023

Harvard’s Claudia Goldin Receives Nobel for Work on Gender Labor Gap

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Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1937-2023: Nobel Laureate and Pioneer of Rational Expectations
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May 18, 2023

Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1937-2023: Nobel Laureate and Pioneer of Rational Expectations

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What Can This Year’s Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Crises?
Recognition
October 11, 2022

What Can This Year’s Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Crises?

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Nobelist David Card Made the Minimum Wage Respectable

Nobelist David Card Made the Minimum Wage Respectable

This year’s Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to Canadian -born but US-based economist David Card for his work with Alan Krueger in reversing the perception that raising the minimum wage inevitably reduces the number of jobs.

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2021 Nobels in Economics a Victory in the Credibility Revolution

2021 Nobels in Economics a Victory in the Credibility Revolution

The Nobel committee’s decision to award its economics prize for 2021 to David Card, Josh Angrist and Guido Imbens marks the culmination […]

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Auction Theorists Win 2020 Economics Nobel

Auction Theorists Win 2020 Economics Nobel

Two economists whose work on how auctions work shone a much broader light on how people value and price goods and service have received the 2020 Nobel Prize in economics.

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Questioning Randomized Controlled Trials and Development Economics

Questioning Randomized Controlled Trials and Development Economics

Over the last three decades randomized trials have become an increasingly popular way of testing interventions designed to address developmental challenges. But do RCTs generate reliable results – or even retard progress?

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Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth: Economics Can Save Lives

Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth: Economics Can Save Lives

“Many people die without getting a transplant because there aren’t enough organs for the people who need them, living donor organs included. Sometimes, you might love someone enough to give him a kidney but you can’t give a kidney to the person you love, because kidneys have to be very well-matched. Kidney exchange is a way of getting some transplants done, even when patients and their donors are not well matched.”

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Economics Nobel 2019: Why Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer Won

Economics Nobel 2019: Why Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer Won

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 (commonly known as the Nobel Prize for Economics) has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” Through the award, the Nobel committee recognized both the significance of development economics in the world today and the innovative approaches developed by these three economists.

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Economics Nobel Recognizes Nature and Knowledge

Economics Nobel Recognizes Nature and Knowledge

Two academics who have integrated what might have once seemed like non-economic externalities into economic models have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics. The winners are William D. Nordhaus of Yale University, cited for integrating climate change into macroeconomic analysis, and Paul M. Romer of New York University’s Stern School of Business, cited doing the same with technological innovations.

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What Nudged the Nobel Committee to Honor Richard Thaler?

What Nudged the Nobel Committee to Honor Richard Thaler?

Richard Thaler was not the first proponent of behavioral economics to be awarded a Nobel Prize, notes Sergey Popov. But Thaler’s star turn came when the Great Recession and it orgy or irrationality brought a lot of attention to research that extensively cites the University of Chicago’s economist’s 40-year-long academic career.

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