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

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

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

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.

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.