Author: Emily Oster

Quotes

I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.

I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.

- Emily Oster

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

- Emily Oster

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 toxoplasmosis.

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 toxoplasmosis.

- Emily Oster

To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.

To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.

- Emily Oster

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 pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.

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 pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.

- Emily Oster

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

- Emily Oster

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

- Emily Oster

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