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39. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting

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Why Do We Want to Listen to Economists When We Talk About Parenting?

There are two kinds of economists. There are macr economists and there are micro economistsn cro economists, they study the big questions - inflation, financial crisis. We're focussed on individual choices, on behavior, on n how incentives affect what people do. How you can use data to try to test hypotheses about whether our simple theories turn out to be right or not.

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