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 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 ...

Economist Emily Oster in her backyard in Providence, R.I., on July 7 Correspondent Emily Oster does not offer parenting advice. She is rather insistent on this point. A Brown University economist who ...

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A famed brand that’s been around since the 1920s, Oster is synonymous with kitchen equipment that is top quality and affordable. Whether you’re looking for a large-capacity blender for holiday cooking ...

The Oster Versa is an unusual blender to say the least. At a price point of $150, it still qualifies as a budget blender, yet it offers a generous 1100 watts of power and enough accessories to make ...

Emily Oster is sitting in the back of a car, checking her Garmin watch as we lurch through rush-hour traffic toward the Holland Tunnel. The Brown University economist doesn't like to keep people ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Over the course of a few days in mid-May in Providence, in between homeschooling her 5- and 9-year-olds, grading undergrad research papers, baking bread, revising her first book, and co-chairing Brown ...

"As you get into having older kids, there are very few things which can be fully answered with data because kids are so different," Oster says. "And so that makes the data helpful but incomplete in a ...