please welcome emily oster! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ hello!lause] ♪ ♪ all right. exciting, huh? >> i am excited. >> michael: data. >> and parenting. and babies. >> michael: and babies. what does parent data mean? >> there is data on parents and i am a firm believer that data is the key to making your parenting easier and happier and more relaxed. >> michael: some clip somewhere, might have even been in this book, "expecting better," which, maybe 10-year anniversary, this book? >> yeah. [cheers and applause] >> michael: wow. amazing. i am paraphrasing, but there is two preschools or two day cares, they are both of equal, credible value. which one should i go to as a parent? your answer was, go to the one that is closest to your house. >> yeah. for me, that is emblematic of what i think it is hard and often overthought about parenting is, we have this idea that there is a right way to do it. there is a correct day care. you can really get down the rabbit hole. well, these teachers have this qualifications and this method. at the end of the day,

please join welcoming babu jenna christopher worsham emily oster and. okay. so is. is it on? is it. no my. on. your. am i doing it right? oh, yeah. there you go. yeah. all right. oh. oh. wasn't okay. hello and welcome i am extremely excited to be here with bob and chris to talk about their book. we talked about how to what to do in this conversation. bob told me that his goal for it to be entertaining. so that is what we are going for. i'm here to tell you. so the gist is, yeah, just be clear to everyone else, okay. so. so this is a book about these sort of sometimes random moments that determine outcomes in medicine and. more than that, it's about how we can use those random moments to understand deeper questions and to generate information about. causal relationships. what i think is so and unusual about you, too, is that you're sort of uniquely good about generating ideas out of your own experiences. and i've known barbara for a long time, and i know that not all of his ideas are generated in this way, are good, but some some of them are good. and that's why there's a whole book

they are joined in conversation tonight by emily oster oster, a new york times bestselling author whose books include expecting better crib sheet and the family firm. last year, she was named the 22 time magazine hundred most influential people list, joanna and worsham presenting their new book, random acts of medicine. why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with adhd? how are marathons for your health even when you're not running? would have and salesmen have in common which annual event made people 30% more likely to get covid 19. as a university chicago trained economist and harvard school professor and dr. babu jenna is uniquely equipped to answer these questions and is a critical care doctor at massachusetts general hospital who researches health care policy. christopher worsham confronts their impact on the hospital's sickest patients. in the singular work of, science and medicine, jenna and worsham show us how medicine really works and its effect on all of us. we're so pleased to host this event here at harvard bookstore tonight. please join welcoming babu jenna