

Emily Oster is an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Chicago where she studies health and development with a particular emphasis on the interactions between disease and human behavior. She has worked, in particular, on understanding the HIV epidemic in Africa and gender imbalance in populations in Asia.
She received her bachelor'sand PhD from Harvard, in 2002 and 2006. She was an inaugural Becker Fellow at the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory in 2006-07.
Oster's work has been featured in the New York Times, Esquireand Forbes.
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