The majority of informal finance, in developed and developing countries, is provided by family and friends. Yet … characteristics of family finance: family investors often accept below-market or even negative returns, and despite this, borrowers … social preferences between relatives or friends. The social preferences make family finance cheap but also create shadow …

This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find …-anxiety and depression medications in adulthood. Further, family ruptures during pregnancy depress birth outcomes and raise the … fetal stress from family ruptures and possibly from economically induced stressors such as unemployment. They further …

The health care system commonly relies on information about family medical history in the allocation of screenings and … marginal diagnoses across family members, thereby raising caseloads and health care costs, but without improving patient well …

This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find …-anxiety and depression medications in adulthood. Further, family ruptures during pregnancy depress birth outcomes and raise the … fetal stress from family ruptures and possibly from economically induced stressors such as unemployment. They further …

household incomes that retain the level of well-being across different family types, distinguished by family size and employment …