EconTalk

Emily Oster on the Family Firm

Nov 15, 2021

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The Deliberateness and Purposefulness of the Firm

02:35

I'm Not, I Don't Want That for My Kids

03:54

What's the Only Way to Create Happiness?

03:16

Introduction

2min

Is Your Family a Firm?

2min

The Deliberateness and Purposefulness of the Firm

3min

You Can't All Be Your Hill to Dion

3min

Do You Have a Deliberate Approach to Raising Children?

3min

Are You Going to Let Your Kids Run Around?

3min

Parenting With Kids

1min

The Big Picture Approach to Parenting

2min

What Are the Pieces of Your Family Life That You Most Value?

2min

10.

What's Most Important to You?

2min

11.

Is It Important for Raising Successful or Happy Kids?

3min

12.

It's Not Always One to Be With

2min

13.

Are You a Good Mom or a Bad Mom?

4min

14.

You're Responsible for Making Your Own Breakfast, Okay?

2min

15.

You're the First Teacher Ever Let Me Hold the Fishing Rod

2min

16.

Is Your Child Good at Something That You Don't Want to Be?

3min

17.

I'm Not, I Don't Want That for My Kids

4min

18.

Is Sleep Really Important?

2min

19.

Data Is Not Going to Be the Answer to Everything

4min

20.

What's the Only Way to Create Happiness?

3min

21.

Are Private Schools Better Than Public Schools?

3min

22.

Is Your Parenting Influenced by Y?

2min

23.

I Think a Little Bit of a Pause Might Be Helpful

2min

24.

The Family Firm by Emily Oster

2min

Author and economist Emily Oster of Brown University talks about her book, The Family Firm, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Oster argues that running your family life the way you'd run your own business makes for a better family in today's crazy world. And where possible, the myriad of decisions you make should be based on hard data, at least when it's available.