作者简介

Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know. She was a speaker at the 2007 TED conference and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Esquire. Oster is married to economist Jesse Shapiro and is also the daughter of two economists. She has two children.

内容简介

With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even greater challenge: decision-making in the early years of parenting.

As any new parent knows, there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet. From the earliest days, parents get the message that they must make certain choices around feeding, sleep, and schedule or all will be lost. There's a rule—or three—for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision?

Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths around breastfeeding (not a panacea), sleep training (not so bad!), potty training (wait until they're ready or possibly bribe with M&Ms), language acquisition (early talkers aren't necessarily geniuses), and many other topics. She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time.

Economics is the science of decision-making, and CRIBSHEET is a thinking parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years. Emily Oster is a trained expert—and mom of two—who can empower us to make better, less fraught decisions—and stay sane in the years before preschool.


Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know. She was a speaker at the 2007 TED conference and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Esquire. Oster is married to economist Jesse Shapiro and is also t...

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  • Miss Coconut
    两个大感悟:1. 对自己好就是对宝宝好; 2. 育儿是个难题,只能摸着石头过河。02-07
  • Ann
    只有economist知道什么样的研究才能确定causality说服我们,思维方式太契合了。这本书也可以窥见一些Emily的私人生活,比如她爸妈都是economists。做了笔记,如果将来有小孩就去买一本纸版。08-07
  • 爱乐
    送给待产朋友的礼物。作者是Brown的经济学家,这种用正经科学研究说话的育儿书比“经验之谈”靠谱多了,而且给新父母的take-away是:不用担心,没那么严重,那些口口相传新妈妈必须做的事情其实没那么要紧05-27
  • 摩登之夏
    The questions she tackled in the book are just common but important. The problem these days people have are never no information rather too much. Having her read and interpret studies as well as data, plus her own decision making sharing is unbelievable helpful. 08-19
  • 宇宙佛系渣渣蓝
    作者的上一本就很有帮助,这一本继续。受过专业训练的文献分析、概率学和经济学的思维方式给一些争议较大的 Mommy War 问题带来清风般的视角。看完感觉心理准备已完成七七八八,并且能对大部分问题放下焦虑了。08-02

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