Emily Oster

Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University. She is the author of Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong and Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, From Birth to Preschool, and organizer of COVID-Explained.

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How the Delta Variant Should Change Parents’ Plans This Summer

Emily Oster

July 13, 2021 12:44 PM

How to (Try to) Talk Your Family Into Getting Vaccinated

Emily Oster

March 29, 2021 4:50 PM

What Can Families Do When Adults Are Vaccinated and Kids Are Not?

Emily Oster

March 10, 2021 2:31 PM

How to Think About the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine’s Efficacy

Emily Oster

March 08, 2021 3:57 PM

How the Pandemic Will End, Starting Now

Emily Oster

Dec 10, 2020 4:04 PM

We’re Thinking About School Closings and Reopenings Wrong

Emily Oster

Nov 17, 2020 9:00 AM

Three Steps to Deciding How to Have a Safe-Enough Thanksgiving

Emily Oster

Oct 14, 2020 9:00 AM

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A Study Shows Children Can Carry Tons of Virus. What Does That Mean for Schools?

Emily Oster

Aug 05, 2020 11:26 AM

What Day Cares and Summer Camps Can Tell Us About Reopening Schools

Emily Oster

July 31, 2020 9:35 AM

We Need to Reopen Schools. Here’s What It Would Take.

Emily Oster

July 02, 2020 2:14 PM

What We Know—and Really Don’t Know—About the Future of COVID-19 Vaccines

Jonathan D. Herman and Emily Oster

June 22, 2020 5:50 AM

Do Coronavirus Superspreaders Exist?

Emily Oster

June 01, 2020 4:54 PM

How to Think Through Choices About Grandparents, Day Care, Summer Camp, and More

Emily Oster

May 20, 2020 4:36 PM

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What Does an Antibody Test False Positive Mean? What About 5,000 of Them?

Emily Oster

May 10, 2020 6:00 AM

We Can’t Get a Handle on the Coronavirus Pandemic Without Random Testing

Emily Oster

April 17, 2020 1:26 PM

For Pregnant Women Who Are Scared of Hospitals Right Now, Is Switching to Home Birth Better?

Emily Oster

March 29, 2020 4:19 PM

Is Your Toddler Straight-Up Refusing to Poop in the Toilet? Join the Club.

Emily Oster

April 25, 2019 5:45 AM

Why Parents Panic Way Too Much Over Kids Who Learn to Walk Late

Emily Oster

April 24, 2019 5:45 AM

Nearly All Infants Lose Weight After They’re Born. So Why Do Hospitals Focus on It So Obsessively?

Emily Oster

April 23, 2019 8:30 AM

When You Give Birth, Your Body … Rips. That Might Suck a Little Less if We Talked About It More.

Emily Oster

April 22, 2019 8:30 AM

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