Crib Sheet (Featuring Jersey Banks of The Urban Cowboy)

Other Peoples Parenting · Aug 12, 2026 · 1h 14m · transcript

In this week’s episode, we are joined by Jersey Banks, who is the co-founder of The Urban Cowboy Hotels and Lodge, and mother to a 6-year-old daughter. Here, we discuss Emily Oster’s book, “Crib Sheet.” Emily Oster is an economics professor at the University of Chicago who spends her life looking at research studies and data, evaluating the quality of information and conclusions in studies. In her parenting books, she tells us which parenting studies we can rely on and which are flawed. In “Crib Sheet,” Oster looks at questions parents face in the first three years of parenting:

 Should I…