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In defense of expected utility
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Under construction.
The Case of the Miners: A utilitarian argument against expected utility
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Mere Addition is equivalent to avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion in all plausible variable-population social orderings
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
What Do We Learn about the Swacch Bharat Mission from the NFHS-5 Fact Sheets?
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
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Basic Demographic Methods and Materials, Teaching Assistant
Graduate course in Sociology Department, University of Texas at Austin, 2020
Course description
This is a graduate-level course on the methods and models of demography. It covers population growth and composition; measures of mortality, fertility, marriage, and migration; life table construction, population projection, and other topics in applied demography.
Basic Demographic Methods and Materials, Teaching Assistant
Graduate course in Sociology Department, University of Texas at Austin, 2022
Course description
This is a graduate-level course on the methods and models of demography. It covers population growth and composition; measures of mortality, fertility, marriage, and migration; life table construction, population projection, and other topics in applied demography.