Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models family behavior posit that an increase in women’s bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects inheritance law change, Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which conferred enhanced rights to unmarried women India, on height. find robust...

Over seven decades have passed since the end of Second World War, but trauma from cruelest war in human history continues today, perpetuated by denial responsibility for crimes committed and unjust attempts to rewrite at expense dignity, life, justice victims most serious rights violations. The latest such attempt is a troubling recharacterization sexual slavery enforced Japan during War as leg...

The dorsomedial striatum (DMS) has been implicated in the acquisition of reward representations, a proposal leading to the hypothesis that it should play a role in situations involving reward loss. We report the results of an experiment in which the effects of DMS excitotoxic lesions were tested in consummatory successive negative contrast (reward devaluation), autoshaping training with partial...

In a complex environment, animals learn from their responses to stimuli and events. Appropriate response to reward and punishment can promote survival, reproduction and increase evolutionary fitness. Interestingly, the neural processes underlying these responses are remarkably similar across phyla. In all species, dopamine is central to encoding reward and directing motivated behaviors, however...