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The core of The Center for Cost-Effective Consumerism is its nationally-recognized Advisory Board.
These renowned experts bring the latest thinking and insights into human behavior and decision making and will help Express Scripts advance its understanding of
consumer behavior.
Emily Oster, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of EconomicsThe University of Chicago
Relevant Expertise: Economics
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’s degree and doctorate from Harvard University, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She was an inaugural Becker Fellow at The University of Chicago’s Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory in 2006 and 2007. Oster’s thought-provoking work has been featured in The New York Times, Esquire and Forbes.