Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of
The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years;
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool;
and
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know. She writes the newsletter
ParentData and her work has been featured in
The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Post,
The Atlantic, and
Bloomberg.com. She has two children.
Dr. Nathan Fox is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and maternal fetal medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He has a busy clinical practice of high-risk obstetrics, regularly publishes his peer-reviewed clinical research, and is invited to lecture nationally and internationally on pregnancy-related topics. He is also the host of the
Healthful Woman podcast. He has four children.
