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Emily Oster says parents should be focused on raising independent children. Her kids walk alone to school and don't have social media.
Oster says parents should be focusing on raising independent kids. Both her kids walk to school alo…
Kelly Burch
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Emily Oster says parents of unvaccinated kids should start masking indoors again, and a pediatrician agrees
The economist Emily Oster broke down the numbers and suggested parents of unvaccinated kids should …
Kelly Burch
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Emily Oster: School infection rates are low even in areas with high COVID-19 rates, according to data on 550,000 US students
Evidence suggests we should expect more cases to show up in schools where community cases are highe…
Emily Oster
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An economist who collected coronavirus data from 841 childcare centers explains how parents should decide whether to send kids back to school
Emily Oster collected data from childcare centers that stayed open during the pandemic and found lo…
Eleanor Goldberg Fox
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Emily Oster's books provide insights on pregnancy and raising children - through the lens of an economist
It was not a lack of professional satisfaction that propelled her to mainstream authorship, but, as…
Julia Hood
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Tongue tie surgeries are on the rise, but experts say try other solutions first for baby's breastfeeding issues
Tongue tie surgery, or frenotomy, should not be the first thing to try to fix a baby's breastfeedin…
Kelly Burch
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Insider Today: Hair transplants in Istanbul
In Saturday's edition of Insider Today, we're following one writer's journey to Istanbul to get hai…
Joi-Marie McKenzie
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Business Insider Awards and Recognition
Business Insider's journalism has won distinguished awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, Scripps Howa…
Business Insider
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Everyone is getting paid these days — except investment bankers
Wall Street seems to be shelling out more money for plenty of roles in finance except one: investme…
Dan DeFrancesco
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The most successful families are run like mini companies. An expert shares the best exercise to help parents get started.
Read an excerpt from Emily Oster's new book, "The Family Firm," which helps parents make smarter de…
Emily Oster
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An economist who's collected COVID-19 data from 9 million students said NYC's decision to close schools ignores the evidence
Economist Emily Oster has collected data on more than 9 million school-aged kids. Coronavirus trans…
Anna Medaris Miller
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Less than 1 alcoholic drink a week in pregnancy is enough to change the fetal brain, study suggests
A new imaging study suggests even occasional drinking in pregnancy can slow fetal brain development…
Anna Medaris
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There's a lack of data on COVID-19 in schools across the nation. An economist is trying to change that.
American economist Emily Oster and a team of researchers are creating a national COVID-19 school re…
Monica Humphries
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A mom who drank a few glasses of wine while pregnant had a son with developmental issues. She said the buzz wasn't worth it.
Natalie Battaglia doesn't know if alcohol in pregnancy contributed to her son's unusual mannerisms,…
Anna Medaris
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Pfizer has pulled its FDA request to authorize a 2-dose shot for kids under 5, saying it will 'wait for the 3-dose data'
Parents of kids aged 0-5 will have to wait until at least April for a vaccine. Pfizer will keep tes…
Hilary Brueck
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An ER doctor used 2 factors to decide on Moderna instead of Pfizer for vaccinating his toddler
Both vaccines work. But Pfizer requires a longer waiting period before the vaccine kicks in, while …
Hilary Brueck
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We don't have enough data to understand COVID-19 risks in US schools. I built a platform tracking 550 schools to help provide it.
Economist Emily Oster has launched a platform looking at enrollment, reopening information, and vir…
Emily Oster
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The YMCA provided childcare to 40,000 kids during lockdown and said it didn't see any coronavirus outbreaks. Here are 11 precautions it took that worked.
The childcare centers that served children of essential workers took a number of precautions, inclu…
Eleanor Goldberg Fox
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Amy Schumer says she resents how much pregnant women have to 'suck it the f--k up and act like everything is fine'
In her HBO docuseries, "Expecting Amy," Amy Schumer details the trials she endured while pregnant w…
Eleanor Goldberg Fox
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Teachers' unions should just admit they don't want to come back to school until the pandemic is over
Politically powerful teachers' unions should just say it: "We're not going back to school, and you …