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The Race Between Education and Technology.
Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Winner of the 2008 R.R. Hawkins Award for the most outstanding scholarly work in any discipline.
Winner of the 2008 Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations.

Summary article in the Milken Institute Review (3rd Q 2009), The Future of Inequality. 

Timothy Noah's article in Slate (Sept, 2010), "The Great Divergence," has a lengthy section on the book pp. 2, 13, 29-35.  Numerous columns and Op-eds in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof (Nov. 13, 2008, Feb. 15, 2009), Bob Herbert (Sept. 29, 2009, August 2010), Stephen Kotkin (Oct. 5, 2008), and David Leonhardt (July 2, 2008, Feb. 1, 2009) have concerned our book.  See also columns in Forbes by Thomas Cooley (Nov. 26, 2008), Joel Klein (Aug. 11, 2010), and Ben Wildavsky (Aug. 11, 2010).  Reviews include those in the Chronicle of Higher Education, De Economist, Education Next, Science, and The Financial Times.

For information on Claudia Goldin see " The Economist as Detective," a brief autobiographical essay from M. Szenberg, ed., Passion and Craft: Economists at Work. The University of Michigan Press (1998)

For more information on Claudia Goldin's research, see the interview in The Region, vol. 18, no. 3 (September 2004), pp. 14-23, a quarterly publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Interview with Claudia Goldin.

Also see, "Exploring the Present Through the Past," an interview with Claudia Goldin by Brian Snowden, in World Economics, vol. 8, no. 4 (Oct-Dec. 2007), pp. 61-124.

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Papers on Gender, the Female Labor Force, and the Pill

• “Putting the “Co” in Education: Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835- Present”
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
  Journal of Human Capital, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 2011), pp. 377-417
• "The Cost of Workplace Flexibility for High-Powered Professionals"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 638, No. 1 (November 2011), pp. 45-67.
• "Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors"
  (online Appendix for article)
  Marianne Bertrand, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 2, Issue 3 (July 2010), pp. 228-55.
• "Transitions: Career and Family Lifecycles of the Educational Elite"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
  AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2008, pp. 363-69
• "The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family"
  Claudia Goldin, 2006 Ely Lecture, American Economic Asssociation Meetings, Boston MA (Jan. 2006), published in American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 96 (May 2006), pp. 1-21.
• "The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the Gender Gap in College"
  Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz, and Ilyana Kuziemko, Journal of Economic Perspectives 20 (Fall 2006), pp. 133-56 
• "The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family"
  Claudia Goldin, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 596 (Nov. 2004), pp. 20-35.
• "From the Valley to the Summit: The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Work"
  Claudia Goldin, Regional Review Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Q4 2004.
  Unpublished version: "From the Valley to the Summit: The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Work," NBER Working Paper no. 10335, (March 2004).
• "Making a Name: Women's Surnames at Marriage and Beyond"
  Claudia Goldin and Maria Shim, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 (Spring 2004), pp. 143-60.
• "A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Occupations and Earnings"
  Claudia Goldin, NBER Working Paper no. 8985, (June 2002)
• "The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender"
  Claudia Goldin, NBER Working Paper no. 8915, (April 2002); Chapter 3 of F. Blau, M. Brinton, D. Grusky, eds., The Declining Significance of Gender? Russell Sage Foundation Press (2006). 
• "Career and Marriage in the Age of the Pill"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings (May 2000)
• "The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, revised version of NBER Working Paper no. 7527, Journal of Political Economy, (August 2002).
• "On the Pill: Changing the Course of Women's Education"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz Milken Institute Review vol. 3 (2nd Quarter 2001), pp. 12-21
• "Orchestrating Impartiality: The Effect of 'Blind' Auditions on Female Musicians"
  Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse (September 1999)
  published in American Economic Review (September 2000)
• "Career and Family: College Women Look to the Past"
  Claudia Goldin, in R. Ehrenberg and F. Blau, eds., Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace, New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press (1997), pp. 20-58.
• Claudia Goldin, “The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History.”  In T. P. Schultz, ed., Investment in Women’s Human Capital and Economic Development (1995), pp. 61-90.
• "The Role of World War II in the Rise of Women's Employment"
  Claudia Goldin, American Economic Review, September 1991, pp. 741-56.

Papers on Education, Technology, and Inequality

• “Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges”
  Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Claudia Goldin (February 2012) NBER Working Paper no. 17827
• “The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?”
  David J. Deming, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Journal of Economic Perspectives
  (Winter 2012) Vol 26, No. 1: pp 139-164
• "Why the United States Led in Education: Lessons from Secondary School Expansion, 1910 to 1940"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
  In D. Eltis, F. Lewis, and K. Sokoloff, eds., Human Capital and Institutions: A Long-Run View Cambridge University Press, 2009. "
• Mass Secondary Schooling and the State: The Role of State Compulsion in the High School Movement"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, December 2008.  To appear in D. Costa and N. Lamoreaux, Understanding Long Run Economic Growth (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
• "The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, March 2007.
• "Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Stucture: Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2:2007
• "The "Virtues" of the Past: Education in the First Hundred Years of the New Republic"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, NBER Working Paper no. 9958 (September 2003).
• "Sustaining U.S. Economic Growth"
  J. Bradford DeLong, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz, in H. Aaron, et al., eds., Agenda for the Nation, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution (2003), pp. 17-60.
• "The Legacy of U.S. Educational Leadership: Notes on Distribution and Economic Growth in the 20th Century"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings (May 2001)
• "The Human Capital Century and American Leadership: Virtues of the Past"
  Claudia Goldin (February 2001), Journal of Economic History (June 2001)
• "Education and Income in the Early Twentieth Century: Evidence from the Prairies,"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (June 1999), Journal of Economic History (September 2000)
• "Egalitarianism and the Returns to Education during the Great Transformation of Education in America"
  Claudia Goldin, Journal of Political Economy (December 1999)
• "The Returns to Skill across the Twentieth Century United States"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz NBER Working Paper no. 7126 (May 1999)
• "A Brief History of Education in the United States"
  Claudia Goldin, NBER Working Paper, Historical Series no. 119 (August 1999)
• "Labor Markets in the Twentieth Century"
  Claudia Goldin (April 1998 revised version of NBER Working Paper), in The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Vol. III, S. Engerman and R. Gallman, eds.
• "The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890-1940"
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, Journal of Economic Perspectives 13 (Winter 1999)

Papers on Corruption

• "Corruption and Reform: An Introduction"
  Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, NBER Working Paper no. 10775 (September 2004). March 2005 version posted.
• "The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered"
  Matthew Gentzkow, Edward Glaeser, and Claudia Goldin, NBER Working Paper no. 10791 (September 2004). March 2005 version posted.

New Deal Research

• "A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation,"
  NBER working paper no. 5889 version of:  Baicker, Katherine, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz, chapter 7 of The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 227-263.
  The manuscript is not the final version that was reviewed and edited by the publisher.
  ABSTRACT
• "The Defining Moment Hypothesis: The Editors' Introduction," by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 1-20.
  ABSTRACT
• The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.  Table of Contents