We review a significant body of evidence from independent prospective studies that if a
mother is stressed while pregnant, her child is substantially more likely to have emotional or …

Political pronouncements and policy statements include much conjecture concerning the
health and behavioral effects of economic decline. We both summarize empirical research …

Maternal prenatal stress influences offspring neurodevelopment and birth outcomes
including the ratio of males to females born; however, there is limited understanding of what …

This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable
synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children's emotional development …

BACKGROUND: The human secondary sex ratio reportedly falls in populations subjected to
exogenous stressors such as earthquakes or political and social upheavals. Explanations of …

Background The secondary sex ratio (ie, the odds of a male birth) reportedly declines
following natural disasters, pollution events, and economic collapse. It remains unclear …

Stress is ubiquitous and thus, not surprisingly, many hypotheses and models have been
created to better study the role stress plays in life. Stress spans fields and is found in the …

Public health researchers may assume, based on the fetal origins literature, that “scarring” of
birth cohorts describes the population response to modern-day stressors. We contend …

Many papers show that aggregate fertility is pro-cyclical over the business cycle. Using data
on more than 100 million births from 1988 to 2014, we show that for recent recessions in the …

The theory that natural selection has conserved mechanisms by which women subjected to
environmental stressors abort frail male fetuses implies that climate change may affect sex …