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Ask Emily: Your Personal Questions on Career

ParentData with Emily Oster

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How Long of Maternity Leave Did You Take for Your Kids?

I think what I got that summer was that it was going to be a very, very long distance in the hard sciences between the kind of work on the ground I was doing and the sort of big questions that I felt were exciting. And economics is a little bit closer to being able to say, I have like a big policy question or something that's on the ground, you know, happening now that I can speak to. Also, I'm actually terrible at dissecting fruit flies. It just, yeah, it's a skill. So fruit flies were really the make or break point for you. Yeah.

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