The author is the child of two yale economic professors. He says his parents really liked their job and that he knew it was an option. The children of academics, i think, have to be more likely to become academic for some e things, some other reasons. But i'm not sure there was anything else specific, other than some kind of genetic link to enjoyingtoing research and the fact that this is a good job that they enjoyed.
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.”
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