Oster Quotes

#1. Oster blender. I poured that concoction into a griddle of sizzling butter, then sprinkled diced strawberries on the wet side. Three

Walter Mosley

#2. Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

Emily Oster

#3. The traditional way to use roses is in beds. These can be any shape and are an attractive, albeit conservative, choice for a formal garden. More exciting

Maggie Oster

#4. If you have a traditional view of economics, you're probably thinking of Ben Bernanke making Fed policy, or the guys creating financial derivatives at Goldman Sachs.

Emily Oster

#5. Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.

Emily Oster

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

Emily Oster

#7. I am extremely devoted to Amazon Prime - which offers speedier free deliveries, free movie streaming and other benefits for an annual fee - but I don't think it is great for groceries.

Emily Oster

#8. All's fair in love and purchasing.

Emily Oster

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

Emily Oster

#10. The biggest food-related risk in pregnancy is listeria. It's a dangerous bacteria, to which pregnant women are especially susceptible, that can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth.

Emily Oster

#11. Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

Emily Oster

#12. Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.

Emily Oster

#13. The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.

Emily Oster

#14. The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.

Emily Oster

#15. I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern.

Emily Oster

#16. No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

Emily Oster

#17. Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.

Emily Oster

#18. Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

Emily Oster

#19. Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

Emily Oster

#20. Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

Emily Oster

#21. 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

#22. addition to the landscape. No other shrub can bloom almost continuously from early summer until frost. And no

Maggie Oster

#23. The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.

Emily Oster

#24. The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.

Emily Oster

#25. You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

Emily Oster

#26. Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.

Emily Oster

#27. When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

Emily Oster

#28. Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

Emily Oster

#29. As people do a task, they improve at it.

Emily Oster

#30. The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

Emily Oster

#31. One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

Emily Oster

#32. If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.

Emily Oster

#33. The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.

Emily Oster

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

Emily Oster

#35. 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

#36. Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.

Emily Oster

#37. In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Emily Oster

#38. My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.

Emily Oster

#39. The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.

Emily Oster

#40. If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you're set. But this isn't always - or even usually - the case.

Emily Oster

#41. Lovingly crafted and super-creative cupcakes are not exactly on tap in my household after a full day at work, and I do not blame my mother for a second that they were not on tap in hers, either.

Emily Oster

#42. Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.

Emily Oster

#43. I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.

Emily Oster

#44. ...I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves- that you have to manipulate our belief so we do the right thing. That feels, again, like pregnant women are not given any more credit than children would be in making important decisions.

Emily Oster

#45. Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in my pregnancy it felt like all of my time with my doctor was focused on how fat I was getting - so fat!

Emily Oster

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

Emily Oster

#47. 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

#48. Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

Emily Oster

#49. I think that there's a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions.

Emily Oster

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

Emily Oster