Dean Spears is the founder and director of the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin and the founder and leader of RICE, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization working on children’s health in rural India.
About Mike Geruso
Mike Geruso was a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisors in the Biden White House. Both he and Dean Spears hold PhDs from Princeton, are tenured professors in the University of Texas at Austin economics department, and are governing members of UT-Austin’s Population Research Center, ranked #1 by US News &World Report.
Their collective body of research has been cited over 7,000 times. Their work has also been featured in publications such as TheNew York Times, The Economist, and National Geographic.