Social commentators have pointed to problems of women workers who face time stress' an absence of sufficient time to … accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how tightly the time constraint binds households …. Time stress will be more prevalent in households with higher incomes and whose members work longer in the market or on …

This paper studies the gender compensation gap among high-level executives in US corporations. We use the ExecuComp … are less likely to be CEO, Chair, or President of their company. The unexplained gender gap can be reduced to less than 5 … of a significant gender gap (once we control for measurable characteristics) implies that women and men who hold similar …

, and counterparty location of funding—and the extent of financial stress experienced in different countries and sectors … during the sharp risk-off shock in early 2020 when Covid-19 spread globally. We measure financial stress using a new dataset …-sector-time panels to assess how different funding structures are related to financial stress. A higher share of funding from non …

, while the fraction working would be 17.2% if none had the option of flexible hours. We further found that job stress …

A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during early childhood on later-life health. This paper … contributes to that literature by examining the later-life health impact of stress during adolescence and early adulthood, using a … novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction during the Vietnam War. We estimate that a 10 percentage point (2 …

This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find … fetal stress from family ruptures and possibly from economically induced stressors such as unemployment. They further … suggest that greater stress exposure among the poor may partially explain the intergenerational persistence of poverty …

A potential contributor to socioeconomic disparities in academic performance is the difference in the level of stress … experienced by students outside of school. Chronic stress – due to neighborhood violence, poverty, or family instability – can … affect how individuals' bodies respond to stressors in general, including the stress of standardized testing. This, in turn …

stress, our results are supportive of the idea that stressful events in pregnancy can damage the health of the fetus. However …