Author: Emily Oster

Quotes

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

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

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

- 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 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

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

- 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

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

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