Sally Kohn: I want to make one point about the sibling study that you raised. That was the study that Amy Tutur leaned on in her defense of not breastfeeding because the sibling study finds very small effects. It is true that the mother's health constant in those situations, but what's not a whole bit, it's not random. They don't tell a mom, why don't you breastfeed one of the kids and not the other? We don't know the reason and that could have an effect. She says we always want to be interrogating all the kinds of studies that we have.Kohn: What are some of the reasons why you might breastfeed one kid
Economist and author Emily Oster of Brown University talks about her book Cribsheet with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Oster explores what the data and evidence can tell us about parenting in areas such as breastfeeding, sleep habits, discipline, vaccination, and food allergies. Oster often finds that commonly held views on some of these topics are not well supported by the evidence while on others, the evidence appears decisive. Oster thoughtfully explores the challenges of using empirical work and balances our sometimes ignorance with common sense.