The stress-caused-by-poverty narrative feels plausible to me but I'd like to see more evidence. Scott Alexander recently posted this study [0] that seems to sh

The stress-caused-by-poverty narrative feels plausible to me but I'd like to see more evidence. Scott Alexander recently posted this study [0] that seems to show that stress is not linked to poverty: > socioeconomic status has no relationship to hair cortisol level > which complicates theories about how many body systems are > affected by “the stress of poverty” since we might expect hair cortisol > level to be an indicator of biological stress levels. On the other hand, a couple of years ago I lost access to my bank accounts for 2 months, and I will say it was a fairly stressful experience, and did force me into situations where I made what I would generally consider bad economic choices. [0] http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/24/055244 http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/24/055244