sleep

Cash transfers improve sleep quality for household heads but not other family members, revealing how financial pressures burden those responsible for providing.

Research in Indonesia shows that elevated night-time temperatures disturb sleep, hinder cognitive performance and increase impatience and irrational behaviour. These effects disproportionately impact vulnerable populations.

Later sunsets reduce children's sleep, harming their learning and long-term education outcomes in India.

Studies in the US point to significant productivity benefits from sleeping more, but does this apply to low-income workers in developing countries?