“I am standing here because I have students. My students are my muses. My students are the individuals I depend upon to listen to my ideas and to react to them.”

— Claudia Goldin

For her part, Goldin emphasized the importance of these students — whom she called her “muses” — to her work.

“I deeply thank my students — my undergraduates, my graduate students — who push me to the frontiers of knowledge every day,” she said at the press conference “I could never do research, I could never be where I am today, without them.”