The family firm a data-driven guide to better decision making in the early school years
"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...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A sample case application: Red shirt, green shirt, school-entry age
- The family toolbox. Creating the "big picture" ; The four fs ; The efficiency frontier
- Big data. Sleep ; Childcare and parental work ; Nutrition ; Helicopter, chicken, tiger, ostrich
- The data studies. School: overview. Application: One child at private school ; Extracurriculars: overview. Application: Sleepaway camp ; Feelings; overview. Application: Is my kid the mean one? ; Entertainment: overview. Application: The right age for a phone
- Conclusion.
