Nobel Economics Prize

Nobel Prize 2023 in Economic Sciences awarded to Claudia Goldin

Economic historian and labour economist, Claudia Goldin was recognised 'for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes'

A wealth tax is a bad way to pay off pandemic debts: Nobel economist

Angus Deaton said that levies on high-earners would be 'very difficult to implement' and give the wealthy 'huge incentives to avoid it'

The Nobel change

There are question-marks about the way the prizes work

Bolstered by Nobel win, randomised trials are big in development economics

But it really gathered momentum in the 2000s, with researchers such as the Nobel awardees designing and implementing experiments to study a wide range of microeconomic questions

Three Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing climate change

Winners of the prizes in physics, chemistry and economics made the assessment Saturday at a news conference ahead of next week's presentation of the prizes.

Growth, income, poverty and the Nobel

There is good reason for caution in applying the results of randomised control trials across space and time

'Delighted', Manmohan Singh congratulates Abhijeet Banerjee on Nobel win

Amartya Sen was the first Indian economist to win the Nobel Prize in 1998

A prize for evidence-based policy

Econ Nobelists transformed policy evaluation

Contract theory earns Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom Nobel Economics Prize

Hart and Holmstrom's work has laid 'an intellectual foundation' for designing policies and institutions in many areas