ParentData with Emily Oster

ParentData with Emily Oster

Parenting is full of decisions — starting the moment you learn you’re pregnant (sometimes before) and continuing indefinitely. For the past decade, Emily Oster has been a guide through the challenges of pregnancy and parenthood using data. She translates the latest scientific research into answers to the questions people have in their day-to-day lives. ParentData brings Emily together with other experts in areas of pregnancy and parenting to talk about some of the most complicated of these issues, from labor induction to food allergies to parenting through a divorce. Each conversation brings us closer to Emily’s mission: to create the most informed generation of parents by providing high-quality data that they can trust, whenever they need it.

Latest Episode

Goodbye, for now (06.03.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • An Expert Roundtable on Trying to Conceive 27.02.2025
  • How to Baby-Proof Your Relationship: Navigating a new marital landscape 20.02.2025
  • All About Vaccines: Why they’re important, and how to make them more tolerable for your child 13.02.2025
  • Understanding Risk, Living With Uncertainty 06.02.2025
  • It’s Never Too Late for Pelvic Floor Therapy: Why it’s about more than Kegels 30.01.2025
  • Tamron Hall's Late-Night Panic Google 23.01.2025
  • How to Talk to Your Doctor: Navigating important conversations about your care 16.01.2025
  • ParentData Presents: Raising Parents - "Should You Have Kids?" 09.01.2025
  • Understanding Panic Headlines: How studies that influence your parenting choices get published 02.01.2025
  • Is Gentle Parenting Best? What the evidence says 26.12.2024
  • Researching the Importance of Paid Leave: A look into how studies are conducted 19.12.2024
  • Bess Kalb's Late-Night Panic Google 12.12.2024
  • Why Is Nutrition So Stressful? The challenge of navigating “good” food choices 05.12.2024
  • ParentData Presents: The Lonely Palette's "Mary Kelly's Postpartum Document (1973-78)" 28.11.2024
  • It’s Not Hysteria: How women’s health gets overlooked 21.11.2024
  • It's The Placenta Episode! 14.11.2024
  • Racial Disparity in C-Section Rates: Unpacking bias in the medical system 07.11.2024
  • Ultra-Processed Foods: What they are and whether we should worry 31.10.2024
  • The Power of Local Politics: How Vermont is revolutionizing child care 24.10.2024
  • Steve Levitt's Late-Night Panic Google 17.10.2024

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