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- Spouse: Jesse Shapiro, economist
- Major work: Dissertation Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women
- School: Harvard University, B.A. 2002, Ph.D. 2006 in Economics
- Faculty: University of Chicago Becker Fellow
- Oster is currently working on HIV prevention in Africa
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Emily Oster is an economist who received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Oster, now a Becker Fellow at the University of Chicago, is best known for her controversial Ph.D. dissertation "Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women," in which Oster theorized that the reason the male/female baby birth ratio in Asian countries is so skewed towards males is because widespread Hepatitis B infection in Asia causes mothers to bear more boys. In a follow-up paper, Oster questioned the validity of her own findings.
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Childhood Research
As a young economist, Oster has developed several controversial theories concerning birth rates in Asia and AIDS transmission in Africa. However, as a toddler, researchers placed microphones in her crib in an effort to understand children's speech patterns at an early age. From these recordings, child psychologist Katherine Nelson wrote a book, Narratives from the Crib, which caused other child psychologists in the field to begin to believe that children developed language abilities in ways unrealized before. However, today, some researchers believe that Oster's high IQ made the research that came from these childhood recordings flawed. -
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Emily Oster on Amazon
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J. S. Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden; Easter Oratorio - $18.98
This CD is probably the best single-disc example of the controversial one-voice-per-part approach to Bach's cantatas. The singers hold their own nicely with the period instrument...Amazon
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Narratives from the Crib - $21.00
This classic psychological case study focuses on one talkative child's emerging ability to use language, her capacity for understanding, for imagining, and for making inferences an...Amazon
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Bach: Magnificat; Easter Oratorio - $10.98
Andrew Parrott was the first conductor to adopt Joshua Rifkin's controversial one-singer-per-part approach to Bach's "choral" music (other than Rifkin himself, that is). This very ...Amazon
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Are all lotteries regressive? Evidence from the Powerball.: An article from: National Tax Journal - $5.95
This digital document is an article from National Tax Journal, published by National Tax Association on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 4082 words. The page length shown...Amazon
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Emily Oster Questions
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