All Emily Oster Quotes
- 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… Active
- Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they… Activism
- 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… Anyone
- I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself. Lose
- I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast. Amount
- 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… Argued
- 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… All
- 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… Additional
- 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… Carrot
- 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… Activities
- Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do. Always Someone
- The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and… Available
- 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… All
- The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery. Baby
- 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… Early
- For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy. Along
- Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly. Birth
- 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… Birth
- 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… Brains
- The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise… Analysis
- You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy. Economy
- As people do a task, they improve at it. Improve
- Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. Actually Disagree
- Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm. Decision
- Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage. Child