Guwahati, Sept. 10 -- A study conducted by Prof. Bhaskar Jyoti Neog, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, has revealed that extreme temperatures can influence how children allocate their time between learning and leisure.

Published in the prestigious Review of Economics of the Household, a Springer Nature journal, the study highlights an important, but less explored, pathway through which climate change and extreme weather may affect children's well-being and human capital formation.

By examining the data from India's nationally representative Time Use Survey, 2019, and correlating it with daily weather information, Prof. Neog found that children tend to substitute...