survey of U.S. households, we document the prevalence of financial stress in U.S. households and a strong relationship … between financial stress and measures of financial constraints. We incorporate financial stress into an otherwise standard … requires two equally important components: financial stress itself and naivete about financial stress. Specifically …

mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic …. Stress is the biological reaction to external stimuli that threatens the self-preservation instinct of a human organism. The … stress was generated by debilitating poverty, financial insecurity, by the highest level of inequality among rich countries …