A recent study by prominent authors including Nobel laureates shows that Indian children working in markets excel in mental ...

While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...

Intuitively solving a problem like multiplying 43 by 11, they might first multiply 43 by 10, and then add 43, reaching the ...

All children covered in the study were under the age of 17 years, with most in the age group of 13 to 15 years. Further, the ...

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.

Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT and the 2019 Nobel laureate in economic ...

Fissures within the INDIA opposition bloc continued apace Wednesday morning after the Samajwadi Party and the Trinamool Congress threw their weight behind the Aam Aadmi Party - and seemed to ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticized a local court's decision to withhold the death penalty in the RG Kar rape and murder case, calling for capital punishment and citing the heinous ...