Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named

I think you'll find that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. That last part, of course, is essential. --Devyn DuChien

I didn't even go to graduation.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

I think we should support entrepreneurialship.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

Make the most of your life instead of comparing it to everyone else's.

Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well - we're not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F] Kennedy.