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1. "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." ~ Emily Oster
2. "Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage." ~ Emily Oster
3. "When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips." ~ Emily Oster
4. "Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence." ~ Emily Oster
5. "The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows." ~ Emily Oster
6. "Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making." ~ Emily Oster
7. "All's fair in love and purchasing." ~ Emily Oster
8. "As people do a task, they improve at it." ~ Emily Oster
9. "Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one." ~ Emily Oster
10. "Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly." ~ Emily Oster
11. "For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy." ~ Emily Oster
12. "Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm." ~ Emily Oster
13. "I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself." ~ Emily Oster
14. "I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast." ~ Emily Oster
15. "In short, humans are programmed to get bored." ~ Emily Oster
16. "One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing." ~ Emily Oster
17. "Talking to women about birth can be polarizing." ~ Emily Oster
18. "There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis." ~ Emily Oster
19. "You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy." ~ Emily Oster
20. "Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring." ~ Emily Oster

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