Emily Oster
Economist and parenting author
Emily Oster is an American economist at Brown University who uses data to help people make choices about pregnancy and parenting.
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American Born 1980 in New Haven, United States
About Emily Oster
Emily Oster is an American economist who has been a professor of economics at Brown University since 2015. She earned her bachelor's degree and PhD at Harvard, and earlier she held a teaching post at the business school of the University of Chicago. Her research spans development economics, health economics, research design and experimental methodology. She has written books on using data to make choices in pregnancy and parenting, including Expecting Better, Cribsheet and The Family Firm. She is a New York Times best-selling author. She also founded ParentData, a guide to pregnancy and parenting built on data.