Population, Progress, and the Case for People

In this episode of the 80,000 hours podcast, host Luisa Rodriguez speaks to Dean Spears — associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin and founding director of r.i.c.e. — about his experience implementing a surprisingly low-tech but highly cost-effective kangaroo mother care programme in Uttar Pradesh, India to save the lives of vulnerable newborn infants.

We provide the first evidence that individual-level questions find more open defecation than household-level questions.

Josephine Duh & Dean Spears of the r.i.c.e institute present their research on the relationship between increasing average wealth and decreasing average calorie consumption in India.