intervention also improved worker satisfaction and reduced stress levels, without affecting the quality of the loan officers …

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 …

We find that veterans of the Union Army who faced greater wartime stress (as measured by higher battlefield mortality … statistically significantly less likely to be affected by wartime stress. Our results hold for overall mortality, mortality from …-run health follow-ups of the interaction between stress and social networks in a human population in which both stress and social …

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

of results is also consistent with a significant role for stress in generating long-term health consequences after job …

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 …

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 …

We study how maternal stress affects offspring outcomes. We find that in-utero exposure to elevated levels of the … stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based … literature linking exogenous exposure to stress hormones in-utero with declines in offspring cognitive, behavioral and motor …