Emily Oster Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I think that there's a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions.”

“The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.”

“Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.”

“One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.”

“You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.”

“All's fair in love and purchasing.”

“Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.”

“Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.”

“I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.”