124: Emily Oster on Diabetes and Diet, Disease and Vaccinations and Debunking Pregnancy Myths

Emily Oster is Professor of Economics at Brown University. Before joining Brown University Professor Oster wasa faculty member of the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business following the completion of her PhD from Harvard. Emily’s research covers development economics, health economics and research design.

Professor Oster is the author of “Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong — and What You Really Need to Know”. Her book has over 600 customer reviews on Amazon and has over 4400 ratings on Goodreads. Emily has featured in SuperFreakonomics and her Ted talk ‘Flip your thinking on AIDs in Africa’, has almost 1 million views.

Links:

Diabetes and Diet: Purchasing Behavior Response to Health Information
American Economic Journal:Applied Economics,  Forthcoming

Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response
Journal of Health Economics, Forthcoming

Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004.

Podcast Episodes Mentioned:

118: Zachary Feinstein on Systemic Risk and Economics in Star Wars and Harry Potter

114: Deirdre McCloskey on Equality and Greed and How To Be a Very Good Economist

022: Josh Angrist on Taking the Con Out of Econometrics – Kung Fu Style

The Time Ferriss Show: Gretchen Rubin — Experiments in Happiness and Creativity

Books:

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong, and What you Really Need to Know by Emily Oster

Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion by Josh Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) by J. K. Rowling

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