60 Quotes by Emily Oster

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that’s why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have – it’s usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

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.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn’t trump good decision-making.

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

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I’m an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.