designed to alter one of these factors – stress – as a means of narrowing the achievement gap by synthesizing the empirical … literature linking stress and academic performance, and reviewing the theoretical literature. Overall, the literature yields …. Despite these results, significant reason exists to believe that stress can be a meaningful part of a social policy …

Does poverty lead to stress? Despite several studies showing correlations between socioeconomic status and levels of … the stress hormone cortisol, it remains unknown whether this relationship is causal. We used random weather shocks in …-reported stress when the preceding year had high compared to low levels of rain. In addition, the effect of rain on cortisol is larger …