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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
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When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.
- Emily Oster
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Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each does 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
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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.
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Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.
- Emily Oster
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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
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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
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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
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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, and working on the most important things.
- Emily Oster
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Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.
- Emily Oster
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Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and the risks of miscarriage.
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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
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Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.
- Emily Oster
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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 realize you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.
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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.
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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.
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