-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …

The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral … economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision … intelligence tests as cognitive stressors, we find that stress increases subjective discounting rates, has no effect on the degree …

improve self-control and reduce stress. We conduct the experiment with 139 participants, half of whom receive a four …-related behaviours. We find evidence that mindfulness training reduces perceived stress, but only weak evidence on its impact on …

relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the … increase in individual stress levels after the economic, cultural and political consequences of reunification. …

-the-job-leisure, the higher the levels of stress during their work tasks. A back-of-the-envelope calculation based on time use data over … related to increases in worker stress. In analyzing workers' effort and stress during market work activities we contribute to …

hypothesis that increased stress is one transmission mechanism. Using unique survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we … find performance pay consistently and importantly associates with greater stress even controlling for a long list of … pay and stress. The risk tolerant receiving performance pay suffer less stress than the risk averse. …

This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique … about war casualties and Nazi raids across space (Municipality) and time. We find that prenatal stress exposure leads to … further show that workers exposed to in-utero stress face larger earnings reductions after job loss due to mass layoffs. This …

and beyond. In this paper, we analyze the impact of prenatal stress on cognitive and non-cognitive development of the … in-utero to maternal stress do not have different birth-weight relative to those who were not exposed, yet by age 2 … exposed to in utero stress. We also find that the negative impacts are observed if in-utero stress occurs during the first …