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The authors aim to construct a value-based care framework for reconstructive surgery using post-mastectomy reconstruction as an organizing element. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has cultivated the country’s image as a bastion of moderate Islam and of himself as a strategic partner, but to what extent does his international reputation correspond to public opinion in Morocco? In this paper, the author evaluates the king’s domestic standing as part of a larger Baker Institute study on religious authority in the Middle East.

Fellow Joyce Beebe summarizes the evolution of the marriage penalty in the U.S. tax system, its magnitude and impact on couples’ work and marital decisions, and how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 changes the marriage penalty for different income and age groups.

A Baker Institute study is the first of its kind to examine the impact of the ride-sharing service Uber on drunk-driving deaths in a low- and middle-income country.

Though it is significantly smaller than Russia’s state-owned oil and gas companies, Novatek is the company at the frontier of innovation in the Russian energy sector, particularly with regard to LNG, energy fellow Anna Mikulska writes in a post for the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy: http://bit.ly/2I7A9UH.

The author applies a rigorous approach for developing a projection of growth and employment in India, concluding that the “Make in India” goals of the manufacturing sector reaching 25 percent of GDP and creating 100 million new jobs by 2022 do not appear realistic.

The authors construct a tax competition model in which local governments finance business public services with either a source-based tax on mobile capital, such as a property tax, or a tax on production, such as an origin-based value added tax, and then assess which of the two tax instruments is more efficient.

Fellow for the Middle East A.Kadir Yildirim and undergraduate intern Meredith McCain explore survey data on the goals, outcomes and beneficiaries of the Arab Spring protests.

How does a country’s constitutional form of governance — specifically, if it is a presidential or parliamentary system — influence its susceptibility to a military coup? The author examines the issue in Political Science Quarterly