Moreover, this advice may be counterproductive. Many Americans will hear this as “add protein” rather than “replace other ...

When economist Emily Oster became pregnant with her first child in 2010, she found stress relief in numbers and facts about parenting. Data abated her anxieties and answered questions that her ...

In lieu of a national policy on schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, states and individual districts have been left to decide for themselves how to balance competing concerns of child development, ...

Economist Emily Oster in her backyard in Providence, R.I., on July 7 Credit - Tony Luong for TIME Emily Oster does not offer parenting advice. She is rather insistent on this point. A Brown University ...

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The economist Emily Oster’s “Expecting Better” made parenting less daunting. Her new book, “The Family Firm,” does the opposite. There is a scene in Moneyball that recounts the old way of evaluating ...