ParentData with Emily Oster

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Parenting is full of decisions — starting the moment you learn you’re pregnant (sometimes before) and continuing indefinitely. For the past decade, Emily Oster has been a guide through the challeng

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December 08, 2022 Parenting in America with Jessica Grose and Yael Schonbrun
I am absolutely delighted to feature an interview with two amazing authors. Jessica Grose is the author of the just-released book “Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood,” and Yael Schonbrun is a clinical psychologist and an assistant professor at Brown (my colleague!) and the author of the new book “Work, Parent, Thrive.”
ParentData relaunched in September 2023. Please enjoy this episode of the earlier version of the podcast from our archives. You can read transcripts and listen to all of our episodes at parentdata.org/podcast.
Want more on data, pregnancy, and parenting? Subscribe to the ParentData newsletter for free at parentdata.org.
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30min
December 05, 2022 Where Does Data Come From?
Today's discussion: a lens into thinking more generally about where data comes from, and whether we can be confident in what it tells us.
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14min
November 14, 2022 How to Protect Against Illness This Holiday Season
In this moment, I am still getting a lot of questions about illness and seeing family. I will note, however, they are mostly not about COVID. People — especially those with young kids — are more worried about flu and RSV. The pandemic isn’t over, but it’s reached a place for most people where COVID is part of a broader landscape of illness. The turducken we build this year for Thanksgiving is going to be one we consider keeping indefinitely; it’s one we could have had in earlier, pre-COVID years, except we were not thinking about it.
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10min
October 31, 2022 What's the Deal With Vasectomies?
A vasectomy is a low-risk procedure that provides excellent (permanent, though sometimes reversible) birth control. In an effort to help readers who've written it about it, and anyone else who is thinking this through, today is a vasectomy deep dive. Want more on pregnancy and parenting? Subscribe to the ParentData newsletter for free at ParentData.org. You can also become a paid subscriber for access to the full ParentData archive (searchable by topic) and an extra newsletter every week.
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8min
October 24, 2022 How to Get Kids to Eat Their Lunches with Marnie Hanel
I talked to writer Marnie Hanel on her new, incredibly beautiful book about packing lunch boxes for your kids. When this book was first brought to my attention, I scoffed. I am nothing if not a hater of high-pressure lunch packing for children. However: I was convinced to consider the book by the fact that one of my children’s lunch boxes came back pretty much uneaten most days.
ParentData relaunched in September 2023. Please enjoy this episode of the earlier version of the podcast from our archives. You can read transcripts and listen to all of our episodes at parentdata.org/podcast.
Want more on data, pregnancy, and parenting? Subscribe to the ParentData newsletter for free at parentdata.org.
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29min
October 20, 2022 Should You Get the Bivalent Booster?
My inbox, and my Wednesday Instagram stories, are usually a good barometer of where people are in their concerns about COVID. In the past several weeks, nearly all of the questions I get are about vaccines, and specifically how to navigate what sometimes feels like confusing messaging. Today I want to try to help by talking through three somewhat specific questions. First: What is the value of getting the bivalent booster? Second: vaccines in pregnancy. Is there a best time to get boosted? Third: vaccines for the under-5 set. Want more on pregnancy and parenting? Subscribe to the ParentData newsletter for free at ParentData.org. You can also become a paid subscriber for access to the full ParentData archive (searchable by topic) and an extra newsletter every week.
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12min
October 17, 2022 Are Super Shoes That Super?
If you follow me on Instagram, you probably get a sense that I like to run. As part of this very intense hobby, I recently acquired a pair of “super shoes” — the new-technology racing shoes that supposedly make you faster. When I posted about them, I got questions, and also some skepticism. One commenter told me (nicely) that her husband feels the research does not support the value of these shoes, or that only the Nike versions work. This really felt like a question for data. Want more on pregnancy and parenting? Subscribe to the ParentData newsletter for free at ParentData.org. You can also become a paid subscriber for access to the full ParentData archive (searchable by topic) and an extra newsletter every week.
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10min
October 13, 2022 Pinworms, Lice, and Itching
Listen, I know you don’t want to think about this. I know you’re settling down with your coffee, hoping this will be about preschool or vaccinations, or really anything except itchy bugs that infest your child’s head or butt. However: sometime later (hopefully much later), you will thank me when you see worms in the toilet and you know what to do. Want more on pregnancy and parenting? Subscribe to the ParentData newsletter for free at ParentData.org. You can also become a paid subscriber for access to the full ParentData archive (searchable by topic) and an extra newsletter every week.
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9min
October 06, 2022 Should You Worry About Zika?
I get many questions in the category of “I’m worried about [FILL IN THE BLANK]. Should I be?” Sometimes these questions are in the immediate panic category (“A new study said gummy bears cause cancer!”). And some are more of a constant low-level concern. I want to address perhaps the most consistent of the latter: Zika. Want more on pregnancy and parenting? Subscribe to the ParentData newsletter for free at ParentData.org. You can also become a paid subscriber for access to the full ParentData archive (searchable by topic) and an extra newsletter every week.
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6min
September 29, 2022 Happy Anniversary to Us!
Today’s ParentData episode is about ParentData — where we are, where we are going, and answering some questions about how it gets produced. Want more on pregnancy and parenting? Subscribe to the ParentData newsletter for free at ParentData.org. You can also become a paid subscriber for access to the full ParentData archive (searchable by topic) and an extra newsletter every week.
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12min

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