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Dr. Sarah Richardson explores the shift in child development research from genes’ impact to the importance of mothers’ behavior and physiology in this free virtual talk with economist Dr. Emily Oster.
Sarah Richardson, Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
In conversation with Emily Oster, Professor of Economics, Brown University
At the turn of the twentieth century, any notion that a pregnant woman could alter her offspring’s physical and behavioral traits was dismissed as it was believed that a child’s fate was set by its genes and upbringing. Today, a wide body of interdisciplinary research argues that a woman’s ... view more »
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