Emily Oster explores how business strategies can be leveraged in parenting and family management for easier decision-making and more efficient day-to-day living.

Parenting school-aged children in the digital age can be complicated.

Fishing through a sea of endless parenting advice on everything from school choice to cell phone usage can make parenting difficult.

Although we often think of corporate firms and households as entirely separate arenas, firms utilize many organizational tools and strategies that can be incredibly helpful in household management.

Emily Oster is an author of several parenting books and a professor of economics at Brown University.

Oster practices evidence-based parenting with her own children and draws on personal experience of managing the logistics of family life in her work.

The Family Firm examines the benefits of running a household like a business, providing guidance on how evidence can be used to facilitate parenting decisions and create a positive environment for children and parents alike.