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

~Emily Oster

Topics: Again Always Being Being Pregnant Child Like Lot Pregnant Someone Telling You

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I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking, 'This is pretty awesome - is this really a job you can have?' This led me toward a career as an academic, although it took me until college to realise that economics was the right field.

~Emily Oster

Topics: Academic Although Always Awesome Career College Doing Economics Eighth Eighth Grade Field Grade Job Led Loved Me Pretty Project Realise Really Remember Research Right System Thinking Took Toward Until You I Remember

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

~Emily Oster

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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

Topics: Anyone Basic Behavior Clear Employees Idea Incentives Knows Motivate Parenting Place Powerful Rewards Sticker Toddler Tried Used Who Works

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How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It's whatever your salary works out to per hour.

~Emily Oster

Topics: Calculation Easy Even Fixed Get Hour Hours How How Much Much Number Out Per Principle Rate Salary Same Spent Time Wage Whatever Work Working Works Worth Would You Your

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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

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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

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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

Topics: Cost Everything Important Micro More Near Opportunity Others Some Some Things Students Teach Tell Than Them Things Top Truth Truth Is Useful

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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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: Unknown

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