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Episode 468: Emily Oster

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Emily Oster is an economist, professor, and author. Her new book is The Family Firm.

”[COVID] has been 18 months of being a person who is slightly more public, who is saying things that are somewhat more controversial, where people yell at me a lot. ... I do much less reading of the comments than I did early on because I found that eventually I just got mad and that's not a productive way to interact. And it affects how I think about what I write, and I would like what I write to be the things that I think are true, not the things I think will avoid people being angry.”


Show notes:

  • @ProfEmilyOster
  • emilyoster.net
  • "Steve Cohen-Backed Radkl Hires DeFi Trader Aaron Lammer" (Nick Baker • Bloomberg • Nov 2021)
  • Expecting Better (Penguin Books • 2014)
  • Cribsheet (Penguin Books • 2020)
  • The Family Firm (Penguin Books • 2021)
  • Oster’s Parent Data newsletter
  • 35:00 "Antibiotics and Allergies, Zika, Travel Baby Carriers..." (Parent Data • Feb 2020)
  • 36:00 "Grandparents & Day Care" (Parent Data • May 2020)
  • 36:00 "She Fought to Reopen Schools, Becoming a Hero and a Villain" (Dana Goldstein • New York Times • Jun 2021)
  • 36:00 "Emily Oster, the Brown Economist, Is Launching a New Data Hub on Schools and the Pandemi." (Dana Goldstein • New York Times • Sept 2021)
  • 36:00 "Schools Aren’t Super-Spreaders" (The Atlantic • Oct 2020)
  • 37:00 "Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma" (The Atlantic • Mar 2021)
  • 42:00 Oster’s COVID-19 School Response Dashboard
  • 44:00 "Emily Oster Thinks of Herself As an Expert on Data in Parenting, Not Parenting Itself" (Alex Hazlett • The Cut • Aug 2021)
  • 45:00 "Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from US States" (Clare Halloran, Rebecca Jack, James Okun, Emily Oster • NBER • Nov 2021)

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