The book is almost exclusively personal. The idea that you were going to sort of dive into these studies and try to understand this topic in particular, yet it was that personal to you at first? Oh, ye. I think there are pieces of the book that were very much like, id learned about this because i needed to make a decision on our own. Sow n we talk about la prenatle test ting. And then sorof started thinking about how to write about it, and that was kind of where the book came from.
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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