Emily Oster on the Pandemic

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Economist and author Emily Oster of Brown University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenge of reopening schools in a pandemic. Oster has been collecting data from K-12 schools around the country. Her preliminary analysis finds little evidence that schools are super-spreaders of COVID. She argues that closing schools comes at a high cost for the students with little benefit in reducing the spread of the disease. The conversation ends with a discussion of parenting.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
0:16.3	and other information related to today's conversation.
0:19.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:23.3	back to 2006.
0:25.5	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org. We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.8	Today is October 23rd, 2020, and my guest is economist Emily Oster of Brown University.
0:38.2	This is Emily's fourth appearance on econtalk.
0:40.8	Her last anger was April of 2019 to talk about her most recent book, Crib Sheet, our
0:46.0	Data-Driven Guide to Parenting.
0:47.7	Today, we're going to talk about work that she has been doing on the pandemic, particularly
0:51.3	what we've learned about the vulnerability of school children, and if we have time, we'll
0:56.1	also revisit some of Emily's work on pregnancy and parenting.
1:00.0	Emily, welcome back to econtalk.
1:02.2	Thank you for having me.
1:03.2	I always like to get to chat with you.
1:04.8	So describe the nature of the data that you've been gathering.
1:08.3	Where it's coming from and what you've learned so far.
1:11.4	Yeah, so we've been gathering data on schools, and the approach that we're taking is to basically
1:16.6	start with schools and school districts.
1:20.0	So we would like to do some sort of ultimate goals to do some tracking of COVID cases in
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