Claudia Goldin to Deliver 2005 American Enterprise Lecture


Claudia Goldin - Harvard University

On Monday, April 4, at 3:30pm in Burgiss Theater, Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard University will deliver the 2005 American Enterprise Lecture

Professor Goldin's talk is titled "The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family."  It concerns the history of women's attempts to combine career and family with an emphasis on some relatively recent cohorts. 

Her research interests include the economic histories of education, income, inequality, immigration, technological change, and the interrelationships among them, particularly for the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries and beyond.  

In additon to her public lecture, Professor Goldin will address a Senior Seminar in Economics class and will meet with students and faculty for informal conversations.


For more information, contact Ken Peterson in the Department of Economics.