Re-release: Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality
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🗓️ 9 October 2023
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Summary
Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has made a name for herself tackling difficult questions. What was the full economic cost of the American Civil War? Does education increase or lessen income inequality? What causes the gender pay gap—and how do you even measure it? Her approach, which often involves the unearthing of new historical data, has yielded lasting insights in several distinct areas of economics.
Claudia joined Tyler to discuss the rise of female billionaires in China, why the US gender earnings gap expanded in recent years, what’s behind falling marriage rates for those without a college degree, why the wage gap flips for Black women versus Black men, theoretical approaches for modeling intersectionality, gender ratios in economics, why she’s skeptical about happiness research, how the New York Times wedding announcement page has evolved, the problems with for-profit education, the value of an Ivy League degree, whether a Coasian solution existed to prevent the Civil War, which Americans were most likely to be anti-immigrant in the 1920s, her forthcoming work on Lanham schools, and more.
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Recorded September 1st, 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is Jeff, one of the producers of conversations with Tyler. |
| 0:04.0 | In light of today's Nobel announcement, we're re-releasing Tyler's conversation with Claudia |
| 0:08.7 | Golden, who just won for quote, advancing our understanding of women's labor market outcomes. |
| 0:15.0 | When I was reviewing this episode, which aired on October 6, 2021 originally, |
| 0:19.9 | one of the things that jumped out to me is that at one point, |
| 0:22.7 | Claudia says that every one of Tyler's questions is like a PhD dissertation topic. |
| 0:27.7 | And so it's a really great opportunity to review her work, |
| 0:31.2 | what she was working on, how she thinks about things, including what she won the Nobel for, |
| 0:36.0 | but also things like whether a co-sian solution existed to prevent the civil war, |
| 0:40.1 | why she skeptical about happiness research, what she learns by reading the New York Times |
| 0:45.0 | wedding announcement page over time, and much, much more. So congratulations to Claudia and |
| 0:50.4 | enjoy this re-release of Tyler's conversation with her. |
| 0:54.4 | Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, |
| 1:02.2 | bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems. |
| 1:06.3 | Learn more at mercatus.org. And for more conversations, including videos, |
| 1:11.7 | transcripts, and upcoming dates, visit ConversationsWithT Tyler.com. |
| 1:17.4 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to ConversationsWithT Tyler. Today I'm chatting with Claudia |
| 1:25.6 | Golden, who is quite simply one of the leading economists. She is professor of economics at Harvard |
| 1:30.9 | University, has made major contributions to economic history, the theory of income inequality, |
| 1:37.1 | economics of education, gender economics, and much more. Most exciting of all, she has a new |
| 1:43.1 | and excellent book out called Career and Family, Women's Century Long Journey Toward Equity. |
| 1:48.8 | Claudia, welcome. I'm very, very pleased to be here, Tyler. |
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