Emily Oster

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@ProfEmilyOster

Data-Driven Pregnancy and Parenting
Economist @BrownUniversity
Author #ExpectingBetter, #Cribsheet, #FamilyFirm, #TheUnexpected
CEO of ParentData.org 👇

Providence, RI parentdata.org Joined December 2012

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Emily Oster @ProfEmilyOster 5d

For EconTwitter: my better half has a delightful JEP paper on the Bayesian Bootstrap and why you should use it more. It has a surprising number of exclamation points for him, which I guess I should attribute to his more fun coauthors.

aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

www.aeaweb.org In Praise of the Bayesian Bootstrap The key takeaways from this article will be the following: (i) Anytime you can bootstrap, you should! (ii) Use the Bayesian bootstrap instead of the nonparametric bootstrap. (iii) If the bootstrap...

Emily Oster @ProfEmilyOster Nov 2

Please share your wellness routines with me! Even if they are nothing! Informing future content...

forms.gle/BgRajzCUqCPpwD…

docs.google.com Your Health Behaviors! This is Emily Oster -- economist, author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet, and founder of ParentData. Please tell me what you're doing to support your physical health! I am interested in any and all...

Emily Oster @ProfEmilyOster Sep 28

From my non-social-media spouse, a new paper, using LLMs to replicate ... everything.

nber.org/papers/w35782

Headlne: "Across 4,452 published replication packages for five economics journals, the workflow flags discrepancies in 3,460 articles or their appendices."

www.nber.org An LLM Workflow That Reproduces, Improves, and Extends Published Economics Research

Emily Oster @ProfEmilyOster Sep 21

State school testing isn't perfect, but I'd argue it's our best current approach to accountability. Which means parents and policymakers and everyone need to be able to explore it. That's what we are trying to do with the Education Data Center.

For example:

eddatacenter.org/q/Eg2WMpdoen

www.eddatacenter.org Math Proficiency Rates in PS 307 DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS (NYC GEOG DIST #13 - BROOKLYN, New York) The line graph illustrates the trend of math proficiency rates for all students at PS 307 in New York City across various school years.

Emily Oster @ProfEmilyOster Sep 15

This is a great book!!

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Today is launch day for The Everywhere Millionaire! I talked with @PrincetonEcon to answer a few questions about the book.

1. You can order your copy today us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…

2. Please share this with friends who might be interested in the American Dream and/or American inequality

3. Amazon reviews are open now too, and a short one helps more than you'd think.

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