Episode summary: Emily Oster is an economist, professor, and author. Her new book is The Family Firm. ”[COVID] has been 18 months of being a person who is slightly more public, who is saying things that are somewhat more controversial, where people yell at me a lot. … I do much less reading of the comments than I did early on because I found that eventually I just got mad and that’s not a productive way to interact. And it affects how I think about what I write, and I would like what I write to be the things that I think are true, not the things I think will avoid people being angry.” Show notes: @ProfEmilyOster emilyoster.net “Steve Cohen-Backed Radkl Hires DeFi Trader Aaron Lammer” (Nick Baker • Bloomberg • Nov 2021) Expecting Better (Penguin Books • 2014) Cribsheet (Penguin Books • 2020) The Family Firm (Penguin Books • 2021) Oster’s Parent Data newsletter 35:00 ”Antibiotics and Allergies, Zika, Travel Baby Carriers…” (Parent Data • Feb 2020) 36:00 ”Grandparents & Day Care” (Parent Data • May 2020) 36:00 ”She Fought to…
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