Emily Oster
Né(e): February 14, 1980 – New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Emily Oster is an economist and author who applies empirical analysis to pregnancy, parenting, and family decision-making. She is best known for Expecting Better, Cribsheet, The Family Firm, and The Unexpected, books that helped popularize data-driven parenting advice and made her an influential public commentator on risk and family life.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
Emily Oster grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, in a household where economics was part of ordinary life; both of her parents were Yale economists. She studied economics at Harvard, earning both her bachelor’s degree and Ph.D., taught at the University of Chicago, and joined Brown University in 2015, where she became a professor of economics and later the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence. Her academic work centered on health and development economics, but a more public turn began when her own pregnancy exposed how hard it was for non-specialists to find clear, decision-ready evidence. ((https://www.deseret.com/family/2024/10/23/emily-oster-parenting-data-raising-parents-podcast/))
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Voix de la Communauté
"Emily Oster is the non-judgmental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood"
— Amy Schumer
"Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families the bottom line"
— Good Morning America
"Thankfully, parents who wish to actually know what is known have Emily Oster"
— Forbes
"The good news is that Emily Oster has probably already looked into all of them"
— The Skimm
"Cribsheet, a new book by Emily Oster of Brown University, shows that an economist’s perspective can prove surprisingly clarifying"
— The Economist
"Emily Oster wrote the modern pregnancy bible"
— TIME
"It took someone as smart as Emily Oster to make it all this simple"
— Pamela Druckerman
"The author, economist Emily Oster, burst into the parent-lit world with her 2013 hit Expecting Better"
— The Washington Post
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"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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