Nobel economics prize goes to US professor for work on women in the labor market

Goldin is only the third woman to win the prize. Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the historic victory in Stockholm.

It follows the awards in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace that were announced last week.The economics award was created in 1968 by Sweden's central bank and is formally known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Nobel Prize winner Katalin Karikó raised a two-time Olympic gold medalist: Here's her No. 1 piece of parenting adviceA week ago, Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine. The physics prize went Tuesday to French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier, French scientist Pierre Agostini and Hungarian-born Ferenc Krausz.

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