Emily Oster Quotes

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• The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In…
• Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they…
• The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place…
• I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
• I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.
• Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My…
• Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for…
• Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This…
• Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a…
• No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why…
• Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.
• The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and…
• Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in…
• The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.
• Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early…
• For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.
• Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
• There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of…
• My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate…
• The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise…

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