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Author Talk: ‘The Unexpected’
Harvard economist, academic, and New York Times bestselling author Dr. EMILY OSTER draws on her co-authored book The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complication to discuss the hardest parts of pregnancy by bridging the knowledge gap and making space for difficult conversations. In this supportive conversation, Dr. Oster leverages data to educate audiences on how to expect the unexpected during pregnancy.
Information on book buys and signings is available upon request.
The Behavioral Economics of Health
Health care costs are skyrocketing, due to plenty of reasons, including obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
In this talk, Dr. EMILY OSTER discusses how to encourage people to change their health behaviors in positive ways. The talk goes through what we understand about people’s desire and ability to change their behavior in several domains (HIV and health behaviors, genetic risks, etc.). Dr. Oster will also reveal how behavioral economics can teach us about encouraging better health behaviors in these areas.
The Family Firm
How can lessons from firm decision-making help us make better decisions for our families?
Evidence-Based Parenting
How can data help us parent better? Is some data “better” than others and how would you know? Using examples drawn from pregnancy and parenting, this talk goes through the power -- and limitations -- of data for making family decisions.
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Emily Oster investigates women’s health equity and pregnancy in ‘The Unexpected’
Harvard economist, academic, and New York Times bestselling author Dr. EMILY OSTER revolutionized the pregnancy landscape with her data-driven approach to her first book, Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know. In her next book, The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complication, Dr. Oster approaches how to navigate a second pregnancy when the first did not go as planned, partnering with maternal-fetal medicine specialist Dr. Nathan Fox to explore the latest research. Dr. Oster’s discussions aim to demystify the hardest parts of pregnancy by bridging the knowledge gap and making space for difficult conversations.
Information on book buys and signings is available upon request.
Economist Emily Oster shares the next step in data driven parenting – how to use good decision-making skills to make purposeful choices for your family
In her book The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years, Brown professor of economics and mom of two EMILY OSTER offers a classic business school framework to data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more. Though her approach discusses parenting specifically, it is a framework that can be applied to any life choices, from relationships to business to sports.
Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Parents of this age are often still working in baby mode, which is to say, under stress and on the fly. That is a classic management problem, and Oster takes a page from her time as a business school professor at the University of Chicago to show us that thoughtful business process can help smooth out tough decisions. Oster’s talks are a smart and winning guide to how to think clearly--and with less ambient stress--about the key decisions in your life, whatever they are. Oster has gotten a lot of buzz, including being featured on NPR, Parade, and more. Oster is also the author of Cribsheet and Expecting Better.
New York Times bestselling author Emily Oster brings a data-driven focus to today’s most important questions for The Atlantic
Economist, academic, and New York Times bestselling author EMILY OSTER brings a data-driven focus and champions a strategic approach to today’s most important questions in her writing for The Atlantic. Known for her bestsellers The Family Firm, Expecting Better, and Cribsheet, Oster proposes a classic business school framework for making decisions thoughtfully and deliberately – which she says is less about a specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Her thought leadership is also featured in her twice-weekly newsletter ParentData, which has over 100K subscribers on Substack. Oster is an in-demand voice on health economics and statistical methods, and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Cut, and others. Though her approach discusses parenting specifically, her talks offer a smart and winning guide on how to think clearly – and with less stress – about any key decisions in life, for both organizations and individuals.
Emily Oster is on a mission to empower parents by providing the data and tools they need to make confident decisions.
After getting a PhD in Economics from Harvard, Emily went on to pursue research in health economics and now works as a Professor of Economics at Brown University.
As a mom of two, she was inspired by her own pregnancy and the lack of clear information to guide her decisions, from prenatal testing to induction. She decided to use her economics background to review and analyze the data on pregnancy and parenting, and write a book to help other parents navigate these topics.
In addition to being a professor, Emily is the founder and CEO of ParentData, a data-driven guide to pregnancy, parenting, and beyond. ParentData’s weekly newsletter now has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, along with a strong social media community. Emily is also a New York Times best-selling author, whose books include Expecting Better, Cribsheet, The Family Firm, and most recently, The Unexpected. She has sold over 1M copies thus far.
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