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Anjali P. Verma
Anjali P Verma is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Her research fields are labour, education, and development. She is primarily interested in questions related to women's labour supply, education policies, and determinants of achievement gaps among students. Her current work focusses on understanding the impact of exclusionary discipline policies and disciplinary alternative schools on short-run as well as long-run outcomes of students. Before joining UT, she was a Lecturer at the University of Delhi.
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Can technology mitigate the impact of heat on worker productivity?
Exposure to high heat causes productivity losses, with reduction in cognitive function as a key channel. A direct reduction in heat exposure via technologies such as air conditioning is not possible for outdoor tasks. This article presents results from a randomised experiment in Odisha where the use of a digital mode – rather than the traditional pen-and-paper mode – for household surveys helped mitigate some of these heat-induced productivity losses.
