PREVIEW - Isaac talks with Emily Oster
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Isaac talks with Emily Oster, economist, author, and CEO of ParentData, to discuss declining fertility rates globally, the impact of financial incentives on birth rates, and the various factors influencing people's decisions to have children, which not only include financial constraints, but also by changing societal attitudes towards parenthood. They talk about cultural and policy implications of family support and fertility in the United States, the need for paid parental leave, the debate surrounding declining birth rates, and the evolving concerns of parents over the years. They examine the impact of COVID-19 on education, the political ramifications of parenting decisions, and the role of data in making informed choices. Finally, they address the challenges of parenting in the age of social media and the fears that modern parents face.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.4 | When my wife became pregnant, one of the first things we started to do was seek out information about her pregnancy, about what she could and couldn't do, about how her body was going to change |
| 1:12.3 | throughout her pregnancy and what would happen shortly after our new baby was born. |
| 1:17.1 | And immediately, we were dropped into the world of Emily Oster. |
| 1:22.0 | Emily is an author and economist who has served as a professor of economics at Brown University since 2015. |
| 1:29.0 | She's best known for her writing on pregnancy and parenthood and her company parent data, |
| 1:33.8 | which she founded in 2020 to provide data-driven guidance for parents. |
| 1:38.5 | She attended Harvard for her bachelor's in PhD, graduating in 2006, with a dissertation on infectious disease. She's the author |
| 1:46.3 | of four books, expecting better crib sheet, the family firm, and the unexpected. And she is basically |
| 1:53.7 | somebody who, in my estimation, is driving the decisions that parents make today in America |
| 1:59.9 | more than just about any single person |
| 2:03.0 | that I can think of. She tackles controversial issues. She tackles issues you probably never |
| 2:08.9 | thought of about parenting. She tackles controversial political issues, things that kind of touch |
| 2:15.5 | politics and parenting, like what we should do about dropping |
| 2:19.2 | fertility rates or how we can better support families in the United States. And she does it all through |
| 2:24.4 | this data-first lens. I found her work indispensable. I'll be candid, and you'll hear it at the top |
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