Hybrid Event: Emily Oster, The Family Firm, moderated by Keiana Mayfield

Tue Oct 18 2022 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm

East City Bookshop | Washington

East City Bookshop
Publisher/HostEast City Bookshop
Hybrid Event: Emily Oster, The Family Firm, moderated by Keiana Mayfield
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East City Bookshop welcomes Emily Oster to discuss her book, The Family Firm, moderated by Keiana Mayfield.
About this Event

East City Bookshop welcomes professor of economics, pregnancy and parenting data expert, and New York Times bestselling author Emily Oster to discuss her book, The Family Firm, moderated by Keiana Mayfield.

Note on Format: This hybrid event will have both an in-person component with limited seating as well as a virtual broadcast via Zoom Webinar. Both in-person and virtual attendees will be able to pose questions to the authors during audience Q&A.

COVID-19 Information: Please note that East City Bookshop continuously monitors public health guidance to ensure the safety of customers, authors, and our staff and reserves the right to adjust in-person events. Masks and proof of vaccination are required for all in-person attendees.

ABOUT THE FAMILY FIRM

From the bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet, the next step in data driven parenting from economist Emily Oster.

In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more.

Unlike the hourly challenges of infant parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently. But we live with the consequences of our decisions for much longer. What's the right kind of school and at what age should a particular kid start? How do you encourage a healthy diet? Should kids play a sport and how seriously? How do you think smartly about encouraging children's independence? Along with these bigger questions, Oster investigates how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family logistics.

Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Parents of this age are often still working in baby mode, which is to say, under stress and on the fly. That is a classic management problem, and Oster takes a page from her time as a business school professor at the University of Chicago to show us that thoughtful business process can help smooth out tough family decisions.

The Family Firm is a smart and winning guide to how to think clearly--and with less ambient stress—about the key decisions of the elementary school years.

Parenting is a full-time job. It's time we start treating it like one.

EMILY OSTER is on a mission to help parents become more data literate, and thus remove much of the anxiety of modern day parenting. As both a parent of two and a professor of economics at Brown University (she holds a PhD in economics from Harvard) she was inspired to utilize her data translation super powers to analyze the data around pregnancy and parenting to help give parents the information and tools they need to confidently make informed decisions. She is a New York Times bestselling author whose books include Expecting Better, Cribsheet and The Family Firm. Earlier this year, she was named to the 2022 Time 100 Most Influential People list.

KEIANA MAYFIELD is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park in the department of human development and quantitative methods. She completed her doctorate in the human development and family studies program at the Pennsylvania State University in 2022 and received her master's in social work in 2015. In her role as the Diversity in KidLit Advocate for East City Bookshop, Keiana is responsible for providing direct services and support to ECB customers and staff at the intersection of diversity/inclusion, children’s literature, and child development. With her expertise in child development, Keiana assists in the curation of kidlit titles that are inclusive of a broad range of identities and backgrounds.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

East City Bookshop, 645 Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast, Washington, United States

Tickets

USD 0.00 to USD 23.50

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