origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family … Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Further, children exposed prenatally to the death of a relative up to four generations … severe stress; the decrease in consumption of prescription drugs treating depression alone can be valued at nearly $1 billion …

and beyond. In this paper, we analyze the impact of prenatal stress on cognitive and non-cognitive development of the … child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed … in-utero to maternal stress do not have different birth-weight relative to those who were not exposed, yet by age 2 …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

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 … further show that workers exposed to in-utero stress face larger earnings reductions after job loss due to mass layoffs. This …