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 …

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 …

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

This paper examines the impact of job-related stress on smoking behavior. We use data from the Health and Retirement … Study to examine how high job stress affects the probability that smokers quit and the number of cigarettes smoked for … also included to control for occupational characteristics other than stress; time dummies control for the secular decline …

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

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