I am extremely devoted to Amazon Prime – which offers speedier free deliveries, free movie streaming and other benefits for an annual fee – but I don’t think it is great for groceries. Emily Oster Read Quote
For many women – myself included – pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy. Emily Oster Read Quote
Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It’s exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health. Emily Oster Read Quote
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly. Emily Oster Read Quote
I think that there’s a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions. Emily Oster Read Quote
If you have a traditional view of economics, you’re probably thinking of Ben Bernanke making Fed policy, or the guys creating financial derivatives at Goldman Sachs. Emily Oster Read Quote
The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you’d have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school. Emily Oster Read Quote
My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies. Emily Oster Read Quote
The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis – that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them. Emily Oster Read Quote
If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you’re set. But this isn’t always – or even usually – the case. Emily Oster Read Quote
