Episode
17. Emily Oster: “I Am a Woman Who Is Prominently Discussing Vaginas.”
People I (Mostly) Admire · Apr 11, 2026 · 42 min
In addition to publishing best-selling books about pregnancy and child-rearing, Emily Oster is a respected economist at Brown University. Over the course of the pandemic, she’s become the primary collector of data about Covid-19 in schools. Steve and Emily discuss how she became an advocate for school reopening, how economists think differently from the average person, and whether pregnant women…