Dean Spears is an economist who studies development, health

Dean Spears is an economist who studies development, health, demography, decision-making,
and human capital of children in poor countries, and especially in India. His research has been
featured on the front page of The New York Times, in The Economist, and in every major Indian
newspaper. Dean is a visiting economist at the Centre for Development Economics at the Delhi
School of Economics, is Executive Director of r.i.c.e., and has a PhD in Economics from Princeton
University.