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Family Ruptures and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress

Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family … severe stress; the decrease in consumption of prescription drugs treating depression alone can be valued at nearly $ 1 … billion. More generally, our results point to in utero stress exposure as a potential cause of the rising incidence of several …

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Weathering the storm: Hurricanes and birth outcomes

Currie, Janet; Rossin-Slater, Maya - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 3, pp. 487-503

A growing literature suggests that stressful events in pregnancy can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Some of the estimates in this literature may be affected by small samples, omitted variables, endogenous mobility in response to disasters, and errors in the measurement of gestation, as...

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Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment ; comment

Kocher, Martin G.; Lenz, Marc V.; Sutter, Matthias - 2010

Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major...

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