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 ...

Emily Oster does not offer parenting advice. She is rather insistent on this point. A Brown University economist who specializes in health data, Oster prefers to analyze numbers that help parents ...

More than a million Oster countertop ovens have been recalled for potential burn hazards. Oster issued the recall on Sept. 25 for about 1,290,000 of its French Door Countertop Ovens, of which roughly ...

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Emily Oster and the rise of the optimization parent. What gets lost when we approach pregnancy and raising children through data? In February of 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

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 ...

Sunbeam is recalling nearly 1.4 million Oster countertop ovens because their French doors could unexpectedly close and pose a burn hazard to users. Consumers are advised to stop using the ovens and ...

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