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The Family Firm

A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years - THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
By Emily Oster
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The Family Firm by Emily Oster offers a data-driven approach to parenting, focusing on the crucial elementary school years. The author combines research with practical advice to help parents make informed decisions on topics such as school choices, extracurricular activities, and family routines. It's a guide for balancing work and family life using business principles to streamline parenting challenges.
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Chart a child's path with less stress and more optimization for healthy habits and future success' - Time

From age 5 to 12, parenting decisions become more complicated and have lasting consequences. What's the right kind of school? Should they play a sport? When's the right time for a phone?

Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Alongside these bigger questions, Oster explores how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family logistics.

The Family Firm is a smart and winning guide to how to think more clearlyβ€”and with less ambient stressβ€”about the key decisions of these early years.

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Emily Oster's The Family Firm is praised for its data-driven approach to parenting, offering a structured mini-MBA style guide for managing family life. Her engaging and witty writing style makes complex data accessible, providing practical advice for establishing efficient routines and optimising children's development from early childhood to middle school. Critics appreciate Oster's ability to question conventional wisdom, presenting well-researched strategies that enable parents to make informed decisions with less stress.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788165860

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 August 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Souvenir Press Ltd

Edition: Main

Illustration: diagrams and graphs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 320

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Education & Reference Emily Oster Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Parenting & Family Science & Nature Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Cribsheet and Expecting Better. She spoke at the 2007 TED conference and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Esquire. Oster is married to economist Jesse Shapiro and is also the daughter of two economists. She has two children.

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