Episode 468: Emily Oster

Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 12:20 p.m.

b'Emily Oster is an economist, professor, and author. Her new book is\\xa0The Family Firm.\\n\\u201d[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.\\u201d\\n\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@ProfEmilyOster\\n\\nemilyoster.net\\n\\n\\n"Steve Cohen-Backed Radkl Hires DeFi Trader Aaron Lammer"\\xa0(Nick Baker \\u2022 Bloomberg \\u2022 Nov 2021)\\n\\n\\nExpecting Better\\xa0(Penguin Books \\u2022 2014)\\n\\n\\nCribsheet\\xa0(Penguin Books \\u2022 2020)\\n\\n\\nThe Family Firm\\xa0(Penguin Books \\u2022 2021)\\n\\nOster\\u2019s\\xa0Parent Data\\xa0newsletter\\n\\n35:00\\xa0"Antibiotics and Allergies, Zika, Travel Baby Carriers..."\\xa0(Parent Data \\u2022 Feb 2020)\\n\\n36:00\\xa0"Grandparents & Day Care"\\xa0(Parent Data \\u2022 May 2020)\\n\\n36:00\\xa0"She Fought to Reopen Schools, Becoming a Hero and a Villain"\\xa0(Dana Goldstein \\u2022 New York Times \\u2022 Jun 2021)\\n\\n36:00\\xa0"Emily Oster, the Brown Economist, Is Launching a New Data Hub on Schools and the Pandemi."\\xa0(Dana Goldstein \\u2022 New York Times \\u2022 Sept 2021)\\n\\n36:00\\xa0"Schools Aren\\u2019t Super-Spreaders"\\xa0(The Atlantic \\u2022 Oct 2020)\\n\\n37:00\\xa0"Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma"\\xa0(The Atlantic \\u2022 Mar 2021)\\n\\n42:00\\xa0Oster\\u2019s COVID-19 School Response Dashboard\\n\\n\\n44:00\\xa0"Emily Oster Thinks of Herself As an Expert on Data in Parenting, Not Parenting Itself"\\xa0(Alex Hazlett \\u2022 The Cut \\u2022 Aug 2021)\\n\\n45:00\\xa0"Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from US States"\\xa0(Clare Halloran, Rebecca Jack, James Okun, Emily Oster \\u2022 NBER \\u2022 Nov 2021)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'