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Top 25 Emily Oster Quotes (2025 Update)

Emily Oster Quote: “All’s fair in love and purchasing.”

1. “All’s fair in love and purchasing.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information – the data – and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.”

2. “The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information – the data – and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Emily Oster Quote: “For many women – myself included – pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.”

4. “For many women – myself included – pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Emily Oster Quote: “Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.”

6. “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

Emily Oster Quote: “Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.”

7. “Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.”

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Emily Oster Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “In short, humans are programmed to get bored.”

10. “In short, humans are programmed to get bored.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.”

11. “Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.”

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Emily Oster Quote: “Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.”

12. “Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Emily Oster Quote: “You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.”

14. “You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn’t trump good decision-making.”

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

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.”

16. “One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.”

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Emily Oster Quote: “I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.”

17. “I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I’m an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.”

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

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “I think we’ve moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.”

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

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.”

20. “Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “As people do a task, they improve at it.”

21. “As people do a task, they improve at it.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.”

22. “Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.”

23. “Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.”

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Emily Oster Quote: “So let’s start by just framing this not as “What kind of mom will you be?” but “What is the optimal configuration of adult work hours for your household?” Less catchy, yes, but also perhaps more helpful for decision-making.”

24. “So let’s start by just framing this not as “What kind of mom will you be?” but “What is the optimal configuration of adult work hours for your household?” Less catchy, yes, but also perhaps more helpful for decision-making.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “But the world is oddly lacking in discussions of what happens, physically, to Mom after the baby arrives. Before the baby, you’re a vessel to be cherished and protected. After the baby, you’re a lactation-oriented baby accessory.”

25. “But the world is oddly lacking in discussions of what happens, physically, to Mom after the baby arrives. Before the baby, you’re a vessel to be cherished and protected. After the baby, you’re a lactation-oriented baby accessory.”

— Emily Oster

Emily Oster Quote: “The physical and emotional challenges of work pale in comparison to the physical and emotional challenges of being an on-scene parent.”

26. “The physical and emotional challenges of work pale in comparison to the physical and emotional challenges of being an on-scene parent.”

— Emily Oster

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