The author says she was frustrated by some of the controversy surrounding her work. She found it hard to trust studies that were based on data from a different field, such as statistic methods. "There's no secret information. There's just what we know from the data and what you know from being a doctor"
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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