economics correspondent paul solman spoke with goldin about her trailblazing work. d you grow up? claudia: the bronx. new york city. paul: were you at all interested in economics? you went to the bronx high school of science right? claudia: i didn't know what economics was. most high school students don't know what economics is. that's good. that's fine. there are many things that you. should learn when you're more mature. paul: her nobel prize is for her work on the economics of women. but her research ranges far and deep. and in particular, the increasing role of women in the workplace. >> a woman's delicate touch. paul: one against the grain finding that -- she posed a question. >> if world war ii had not existed, what would labor force participation been in 1950? it probably would have been a little bit lower but not much. the treatment of the war was probably felt most by the more educated women who had the clerical jobs during world war ii. not the ones who, like rosie, would have been in the factories. >> the most accurate image of rosie, says goldin, is norma

economics correspondent paul solman takes a deep dive into one type of crime that may be getting outsizedpaul: ok, a question for you -- is retail theft running rampant in america these days? >> flash mob robberies -- >> just the latest in retail theft crime ring -- sheriff cooper: it is up massive. paul: sheriff jim cooper, of sacramento county, california, has his answer. sheriff cooper: it's not even the drip, drip, drip. it is the faucet's full on where these folks go in daily and steal merchandise from stores. paul: last month, cooper took to social media to blast big box retailers for ignoring shoplifting, and california's laws for being too soft on retail crime. to prove his point, cooper sent dozens of detectives on a week-long crackdown, netting 285 arrests, recovering tens of thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise. sheriff cooper: we have people going just from store to store to store. on law enforcement's part. it's frustrating and really the public, the public's tired of it. paul: but is it really? well, we reached out to our public, online. victoria: i have a part time jo

economics correspondent paul solman has the story from missouri. >> if you think i'm going to cut my eping commission. paul: one senior realty broker sharing his favorite commission tactic. >> you can take this home and shove it up your bleeping bleeping, and i know that it will fit. paul: this clip from a real estate podcast, and ones not quite so bleep-heavy, helped persuade a federal jury in missouri that the national association of realtors and its members have illegally conspired for decades to fix commission rates on home sales, money paid to selling agents, who invariably cut in the buyer's agents, 50-50. plaintiff attorney mike ketchmark. >> why is it that the only system in our entire country, if you want to sell something, that you're paying the other side? paul: or as one of ketchmark's plaintiffs, former policeman jared breit, put it. >> what a weird system that the person that i had never met and did absolutely nothing for me as a consumer was getting the full percentage. paul: the full buyer's agent half of the commission, 3%. worse still, says winning attorney ketchmark

economics paul correspondent paul solman has the story from missouri. >> if you think i'm going to cut bleeping commission -- >> one broker sharing his favorite commission tactic. >> you can take the home and shove it up your bleeping bleeping and i know that it will fit. >> this flip a real estate podcast help persuade a federal jury that the national association of realtors have illegal conspired for decades to fix commission rates on home sales. money paid to selling agents who invariably cut in the buyer's agent 50-50. >> why is it that the only system in our entire country, if you want to sell something that your paying the other side? >> it's one oh catchmark's plaintiffs, jared bright pit -- >> what a weird system that the person that had never met and did absolutely nothing for me as a consumer was getting the full percentage -- >> 3% fully half the typical total commission. large firms are coming to dominate the industry and have a huge incentive to preserve the system. >> half the time these corporations are making money representing sellers and half the time they're making m