This study was released in June, so this may be a repost, but I just found out that one of my friends is a fan of Emily Oster and this is the void I must scream into.

  • Her wikipedia has a COVID-19 section. She is a think tank head who pushed super hard for school reopening and making masks optional in public. Her credentials for these were she is a liberal economist who graduated from Harvard and taught at the Chicago School of Economics. Her research was at least on “Economics and Health” but she also wrote a book with a section contesting fetal alcohol syndrome’s causal sensitivity which was widely panned by anyone who knew anything about it.