support. We also find evidence of unemployment scarring effects: substantial experience of unemployment has long …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with …-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of … cannot be attributed to the parents' own employment status. The results suggest pathways through stress and air pollution. …

-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 …

-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 … in large part due to the type of job that people hold and interruptions in their working career due to unemployment. We …