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Episode 468: Emily Oster

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How Much of the Family Firm Is About Parental Advice?

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Gret i wante to talk a lttle bit more about the book. So there's a kind of like rubric in the new book, in the family firm, that's like the four fs, parents who frame a problem, they should do fact finding, final decision and then follow up. We had this four f, and we were going through the fourfs, and i just like, wrote down the four s. It was like we had a way of encountering the world and then when i came to write it, i thought about, how would i structure that so someone else could replicate it? And then that is sort of where the framework 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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@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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