18 Facts About Emily Oster

Emily Oster's research was brought to the attention of non-economists through the Wall Street Journal, the book SuperFreakonomics, and her 2007 TED Talk.

Emily Oster was born on February 14,1980, in New Haven, Connecticut.

When she was two years old, Emily Oster's parents noticed that she talked to herself in her crib after they left her room.

Analysis of Emily Oster's speech showed that her language was much more complex when she was alone than when interacting with adults.

Emily Oster then did doctoral studies in economics at Harvard under Michael Kremer.

From 2006 to 2007, Emily Oster was a Becker Fellow at the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago, where she was an assistant professor at the Department of Economics from 2007 to 2009, an assistant professor at the Booth School of Business from 2009 to 2011, and an associate professor from 2011 to 2014.

Emily Oster became a tenured associate professor of economics at Brown University in 2015, where she has been a full professor of economics since 2016 and the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence since 2019.

Emily Oster is the CEO of ParentData, which she founded in 2020.

Emily Oster has been a research associate at the NBER since 2015, where she was a faculty research fellow from 2006 to 2015, and has been an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 2014.

In 2005, Emily Oster published a dissertation for her economics Ph.

Emily Oster discusses the data behind common pregnancy practices and argues that many of them are misleading.

Emily Oster's second book, Cribsheet, was published in April 2019 and was a New York Times best seller.

Emily Oster suggests that parents run their families like firms in order to maximize their children's' advantage over others.

Emily Oster was an advocate for opening schools during the coronavirus epidemic, spearheading a project to collect data on the spread of coronavirus in schools, and appearing frequently in media discussing why schools should open.

Critics of Emily Oster's dashboard said it had methodological problems that they believe undermine its usefulness.

On May 18,2021, Emily Oster published another piece in The Atlantic titled "Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma", which generated much heated response.

In September 2021, Emily Oster launched the COVID-19 School Data Hub which includes information on virtual and in person status of schools across 31 states.

Emily Oster married Jesse Shapiro, an economist, in June 2006, and they have two children.