Career and Family: Then and Now with Claudia Goldin, Harvard University

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017 and is currently co-director of the NBER’s group on Gender in the Economy. Most of her research interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of issues of current concern including the gender gap in earnings, economic inequality, the returns to education, and the rise of the female labor force.

This is the first in a series of lectures to honor Stanley Engerman, professor emeritus in the Department of Economics.  Professor Engerman was a passionate teacher of undergraduates at the University of Rochester for over a half-century. The lecture series carries on his mission by giving undergraduates a unique opportunity to learn from top economists around the country and world.