Dr. Dean Spears and Dr. Michael Geruso are economists, demographers, and associate professors at the University of Texas at Austin. Spears is a founding executive director of r.i.c.e, (a research institute for compassionate economics), a nonprofit that works to promote children’s health, growth, and survival in rural India. Geruso served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, where he advised on healthcare and population change. Their research on health, population, and climate change has been published in top peer-reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, Nature Climate Change, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Both live in Austin, Texas.