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Published in IZA Policy Paper Series, 2021
This paper investigates what the NFHS-5 summary statistics released in 2020 tell us about open defecation in India.
Recommended citation: Spears, Dean, Nathan Franz, & Diane Coffey. (2021). "What do we learn about the Swacch Bharat Mission from the NFHS-5 fact sheets?" IZA Policy Paper 172. http://ftp.iza.org/pp172.pdf
Published in Economics Letters, 2020
This paper uses formal axiological arguments to prove, given a set of uncontroversial axioms, the equivalence of two much-studied principles focused on the sign of the lifetime utility of additions to a population.
Recommended citation: Franz, Nathan, & Dean Spears (2020). "Mere Addition is equivalent to avoiding the Sadistic Conclusion in all plausible variable-population social orderings." Economics Letters, 196, 109547. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016517652030330X