Harvard University Scholar to Give 49th Annual Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture
Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will give the 49th Annual Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture at UC Santa Barbara on Tuesday, May 22. She will speak on "American Leadership and the Human Capital Century: The Virtues of the Past."
Her talk begins at 2:30 p.m. in the university's MultiCultural Center. It is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, however, and reservations are recommended and may be made by calling the UCSB Department of Economics, (805) 893-3569. A reception will follow the lecture.
The Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture is named for the noted economic authority and author who died in 1946. Established in 1960 with a bequest from the estate of Snyder's wife, Madeleine Raisch, the memorial is used to bring to UCSB outstanding lecturers in the field of economics.
Goldin, who recently was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, is the author and editor of several books, including "Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women" (Oxford University Press, 1990). Her most recent work in the area of gender has concerned the impact of the birth control pill on women's career and marriage decisions in the 1970s, career and family tradeoffs among college graduate women, and women's surnames after marriage as a social indicator. Currently, she is at work on a wide-ranging project studying the family and career transitions of male and female graduates of selected universities from the late 1960s to the present.
Goldin is a Gilman Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Econometric Society. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
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