Claudia Goldin, a Harvard professor and Nobel laureate, dives into the complex economics of inequality. She addresses the rise of female billionaires in China while unpacking the persistent U.S. gender earnings gap. Goldin explores falling marriage rates among those without college degrees and the unique wage gap dynamics for Black women. Skeptical of happiness research, she offers insights on the impact of motherhood on well-being and critiques for-profit education's role in perpetuating gender disparities. A wealth of historical context reveals how educational access shapes economic outcomes.
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China's Female Billionaires
China's female billionaire surge is linked to increased liberation during the communist revolution.
However, equality has diminished, with fewer women in top CCP positions today.
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US Gender Earnings Gap
The US gender earnings gap expanded between 1995 and 2008, particularly for higher-educated women.
This is partly due to increasing inequality at the top, where men disproportionately occupy high-paying positions.
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Flexibility and the Gender Pay Gap
Workplace flexibility is key to closing the gender pay gap.
Even firms with high fixed costs can create redundancy to enable flexible work arrangements.
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In 'Career and Family,' Claudia Goldin examines the century-long journey of women in balancing career and family life, tracing the evolution of gender equality and the persistent challenges faced by women in achieving both career success and family responsibilities. The book explores how societal and economic structures have impacted women's choices and outcomes across different generations. Goldin argues that fundamental changes in work structures and the valuation of caregiving are necessary to achieve true gender equality.
The race between education and technology
Lawrence F. Katz
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Women Don't Ask
Sara Laschever
Linda Babcock
Women Don't Ask delves into the reasons behind the persistent gender divide in career progress, pay, and negotiation outcomes. It explores societal pressures and misconceptions that discourage women from negotiating for better opportunities and resources, and provides strategies for overcoming these challenges to achieve more equitable results.
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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