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Tracking Quality in Head Start Classrooms: FACES 2006 to FACES 2014 (Technical Report)

Nikki Aikens, Charles Bush, Philip Gleason, Lizabeth Malone and Louisa Tarullo

The Long-Term Effects of Building Strong Families: A Relationship Skills Education Program (Technical Supplement)

Quinn Moore, Robert G. Wood, Andrew Clarkwest, Alexandra Killewald and Shannon Monahan

Overpayments Over Time: A Longitudinal Analysis of Work-Related Overpayments to Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries

Denise Hoffman, John T. Jones, Benjamin Fischer and Alex Bryce

Maternal Feeding Strategies, Child Eating Behaviors, and Child BMI in Low-Income African-American Preschoolers

Scott W. Powers, Leigh A. Chamberlin, Kelly B. van Schaick, Susan N. Sherman and Robert C. Whitaker

Prescription Drug Use and Cost Among Medicaid Beneficiaries with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses

James M. Verdier, Ann D. Bagchi and Dominick Esposito

One-Year Findings on the Use of Employment-Focused Services in YTD Projects

Arif Mamun

The Characteristics of Food Stamp Work Registrants: 1987

Nancy Heiser, Ann Huff and Carole Trippe

Toward Closing the Evaluation Gap: Lessons from Three Recent Impact Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lorenzo Moreno, Larissa Campuzano, Dan Levy and Randall Blair

Supplemental Analytical Sample Equivalence Tables for Student Characteristics and Achievement in 22 KIPP Middle Schools: A Report from the National Evaluation of KIPP Middle Schools

Christina Clark Tuttle, Bing-ru Teh, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Brian P. Gill and Philip Gleason

Evaluation of Support for Using Student Data to Inform Teachers’ Instruction

Philip Gleason, Sarah Crissey, Greg Chojnacki, Marykate Zukiewicz, Tim Silva, Sarah Costelloe and Fran O'Reilly

Replicating Experimental Impact Estimates With Nonexperimental Methods in the Context of Control-Group Noncompliance

Brian Gill, Joshua Furgeson, Hanley Chiang, Bing-Ru Teh, Joshua Haimson and Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz

Summary of the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Evaluation: Findings for Proof-of-Concept Year

Ann M. Collins, Ronette Briefel, Jacob Alex Klerman, Stephen Bell, Jeanne Bellotti, Christopher W. Logan, Anne Gordon, Anne Wolf, Gretchen Rowe, Steven M. McLaughlin, Ayesha Enver, Meena Fernandes, Carrie Wolfson, Marina Komarovsky, Charlotte Cabili and And

Federal and State Expenditures for Children with Disabilities in Fiscal Year 2014

Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore

Findings from the STETS Transitional Employment Demonstration

Stuart Kerachsky and Craig Thornton

Popular Medicaid Programs Do Battle With State Budget Pressures: Perspectives From Twelve States

John F. Hoadley, Peter Cunningham and Megan McHugh

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010

Esa Eslami, Joshua Leftin and Mark Strayer

The Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE): 2016 Monitoring Results

Swetha Sridharan, Clemencia Cosentino and Laura Meyer

Design of Three Field Experiments

Walter Corson and Robert G. Spiegelman

Steps States Can Take to Help Workers Keep Their Jobs after Injury, Illness, or Disability

Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Long-Term Evaluation of the IMAGINE Project in Niger (English version)

Emilie Bagby, Anca Dumitrescu, Cara Orfield and Matt Sloan

The Millennium Villages Project: A Retrospective, Observational, Endline Evaluation

Shira Mitchell, Andrew Gelman, Rebecca Ross, Joyce Chen, Sehrish Bari, Uyen Kim Huynh, Matthew W. Harris, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Avi Feller, Susanna Makela, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Lucy McClellan, Seth Ohemeng-Dapaah, Patricia Namakula, Cheryl A. Palm and Jeffrey D. Sachs

Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Recruitment Strategies, Data Snapshot: Reaching Potential Clients

Alexandra Stanczyk, Nikki Aikens, Sarah Avellar, Mathew Stange and Grace Roemer

Emails Increased Retirement Savings Among U.S. Department of Labor Employees (Infographic and Video)

Samia Amin, Greg Chojnacki, Irma Perez-Johnson, Mikia Manley, Aravind Moorthy, Matthew Darling and Jaclyn Lefkowitz

Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) Baseline Methodology Report

David DesRoches, Tom Barton, Janice Ballou, Frank Potter, Zhanyun Zhao, Betsy Santos and Jaceey Sebastian

Synthesis of Research and Resources to Support At-Risk Youth

Heather Koball, Robin Dion, Andrew Gothro, Maura Bardos, Amy Dworsky, Jiffy Lansing, Matthew Stagner, Danijela Korom-Djakovic, Carla Herrera and Alice Elizabeth Manning

The School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: Summary of Findings

John Burghardt and Barbara Devaney

Evaluation of Water-to-Market Training in Armenia

Kenneth Fortson, Anu Rangarajan, Randall Blair, Joanne Lee and Valentine Gilbert

Evolving Vendor Market for HITECH-Certified Ambulatory EHR Products

Marsha Gold, Mynti Hossain, Dustin R. Charles and Michael F. Furukawa

Youth Engagement in Child Welfare Service Planning

Andrew Gothro and Valerie Caplan

Characteristics, Employment, and Sources of Support Among Working-Age SSI and DI Beneficiaries

Gina Livermore, David Stapleton and Allison Roche

Phone or Face-to-Face? Comparing Data from Surveys of People with Disabilities

Matt Sloan, Debra Wright and Kirsten Barrett

Options for Assessing the Net Costs of Supportive Housing

Craig Thornton, Debra J. Rog and Robert G. Wood

Medicare Advantage 2016 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update

Gretchen Jacobson, Giselle Casillas, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman and Marsha Gold

SoonerCare Managed Care History and Performance: 1115 Waiver Evaluation (Presentation)

James Verdier and Margaret Colby

Racial Disparities in Prescription Drug Use Among Dually Eligible Beneficiaries

Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown and Bridget Lavin

Improving the Effectiveness of Individual Training Accounts: Long-Term Findings from an Experimental Evaluation of Three Service Delivery Models (Appendices)

Irma Perez-Johnson, Quinn Moore and Robert Santillano

An Experimental Study of the Negative Income Tax

Heather Rose

Telephone Collection as Part of a Multimode Survey (Presentation)

Mark Pierzchala, Debra Wright, Claire Wilson and Paul Guerino

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 3 Slides: CNCS)

Mary Hyde, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

National Job Corps Study and Longer-Term Follow-Up Study: Impact and Benefit-Cost Findings Using Survey and Summary Earnings Records Data

Peter Z. Schochet, John Burghardt and Sheena McConnell

Expanding the Role of Primary Care in the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity: A Review of Clinic- and Community-Based Recommendations and Interventions

Michaela Vine, Margaret B. Hargreaves, Ronette R. Briefel and Cara Orfield

The Effects of Mental Health Parity on Spending and Utilization for Bipolar, Major Depression, and Adjustment Disorders

Alisa B. Busch, Frank Yoon, Colleen L. Barry, Vanessa Azzone, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Howard H. Goldman and Haiden A. Huskamp

The Cost of Dropout Prevention Programs

Linda Rosenberg and Alan Hershey

Helping Kids Succeed: Implementation of the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program

Alan Hershey, Nancy Adelman and Stephen Murray

New Denial and Disenrollment Coding Strategies to Drive State Enrollment Performance

Mary Harrington, Christopher Trenholm and Andrew Snyder

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Early Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After One Year

Jeffrey Max, Jill Constantine, Alison Wellington, Kristin Hallgren, Steven Glazerman, Hanley Chiang and Cecilia Speroni

Innovative Programs and Promising Practices: Indian and Native American Summer Youth Employment Initiatives and the 2009 Recovery Act

Jacqueline Berman and Brandon Coffee-Borden

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Description of Overpayments and Stakeholder Experiences

Monica Farid, Sarah Croake, Denise Hoffman, Paul Shattuck, Aleksandra Wec and David Wittenburg

Societal Costs of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Colorado

Dara Lee Luca, Nellie Garlow, Colleen Staatz, Caroline Margiotta and Kara Zivin

Best Bets for Reducing Medicare Costs for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: Assessing the Evidence

Randall Brown and David R. Mann

2016-2018 Oakland Unite Agency Report

Esa Eslami, Johanna Lacoe, Naihobe Gonzalez, Sarah Crissey, Charles Tilley and Natalie Larkin

Performance Measures Based on Test Scores – How Well Do They Predict Principals’ Impacts? (In Focus Brief)

Hanley Chiang, Moira McCullough, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

Measurement and Segmentation of College Students' Noncognitive Attributes: A Targeted Review

Ann E. Person, Scott E. Baumgartner, Kristin Hallgren and Betsy Santos

Experiences of Virginia Time Limit Families After Case Closure: 18-Month Followup with Cases Closed in 1998 and 1999

Anne Gordon, Jacqueline Kauff, Carole Kuhns and Renee Loeffler

Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE)

Denise Whalen, Gilbert Gimm, Henry Ireys, Boyd Gilman and Sarah Croake

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Berea College Promise Neighborhood

Andrea Mraz Esposito, Sarah Osborn, Rebekah Coley, Lara Hulsey and Kimberly Boller

Neo-Materialist Theory and the Temporal Relationship Between Income Inequality and Longevity Change

Andrew Clarkwest

Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-Based Tools and Outreach: A National Scan of Efforts, Volume II, Detailed Summary Tables of Benefits Access Efforts

Jacqueline Kauff, Emily Sama-Miller and Elizabeth Makowsky

Patterns of Hospital Performance in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure 30-Day Mortality and Readmission

Harlan M. Krumholz, Angela R. Merrill, Eric M. Schone, Geoffrey C. Schreiner, Jersey Chen, Elizabeth H. Bradley, Yun Wang, Yongfei Wang, Zhenqiu Lin, Barry M. Straube, Michael T. Rapp, Sharon-Lise T. Normand and Elizabeth E. Drye

The University of Maryland Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Nancy Archibald, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol

Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective

Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer

An Analysis of UI Recipients Unemployment Spells Data Set

Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

Ticket to Work Participants and Other Beneficiaries Leaving the Disability Rolls Because of Work

Jody Schimmel

Medicaid Managed Care Purchasing: What Works and What Doesn't

James M. Verdier and Cheryl G. Young

Dental Usage Under Changing Economic Conditions

Richard J. Manski, John F. Moeller, Haiyan Chen, Jody Schimmel, Patricia A. St. Clair and John Pepper

Medicaid Enrollment After Welfare Exit: Changes Since Welfare Reform

Angela Merrill and Marilyn Ellwood

Understanding Differences Between High- and Low-Price Hospitals: Implications for Efforts to Rein in Costs

Chapin White, James D. Reschovsky and Amelia M. Bond

Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? Evidence from the Tennessee SAILS Program

Thomas J. Kane, Angela Boatman, Whitney Kozakowski, Christopher Bennett, Rachel Hitch and Dana Weisenfeld

Supporting Employees and Maximizing Profit: The Case for Workforce Development Focused on Self-Regulation

Jacqueline F. Kauff

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on Broadened Horizons, Brighter Futures

Thomas Fraker, Todd Honeycutt, Arif Mamun, Michelle Manno, John Martinez, Bonnie O'Day, Debbie Reed and Allison Thompkins

Assessing the Research on Home Visiting Program Models Implemented in Tribal Communities, Part 1: Evidence of Effectiveness

Andreas Mraz Esposito, Rebecca Coughlin, Steven Malick, Emily Sama-Miller, Patricia Del Grosso, Rebecca Kleinman and Diane Paulsell

Supply and Demand Projections from 2010 to 2015

Boyd Gilman, Ellen Bouchery, Paul Hogan, Sebastian Negrusa, Sylvia Trent-Adams and Laura Cheever

Comparing Impact Findings from Design-Based and Model-Based Methods: An Empirical Investigation

Tim Kautz, Peter Z. Schochet and Charles Tilley

Estimating Variances when Analyzing Survey Data from the Community Tracking Study

Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Frank J. Potter

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2002-2004 for All Eligible People and the Working Poor

Karen E. Cunnyngham, Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

The Early Experience of the Avera Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program

Sherry Aliotta, Karen Sautter and Jennifer Schore

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2000 Advance Report (Issue Brief)

Karen E. Cunnyngham and Lisa Fowler

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Pilot Projects in Increasing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation Among Medicare's Extra Help Population (Executive Summary)

Emily Sama-Miller, Libby Makowsky, Gretchen Rowe, Elizabeth Brown, Elizabeth Clary, Laura Castner and Miki Satake

Evaluation of the Medicaid Value Program: Health Supports for Consumers with Chronic Conditions

Dominick Esposito, Erin Fries Taylor, Kristin Andrews and Marsha Gold

Examine Critical Access Hospital Payment Policies Within the Context of Integrated Systems

JudyAnn Bigby

Changes in Financial Aid and Student Enrollment of Historically Black Colleges and Universities After the Tightening of PLUS Credit Standards: An Update for the 2013/14 School Year

Matthew Johnson, Julie Bruch and Brian Gill

Privacy Issues in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment: Information Sharing Between Providers and Managed Care Organizations

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Jennifer Humensky

The Effect of Vocational Rehabilitation on the Employment Outcomes of Disability Insurance Beneficiaries: New Evidence from Canada

Michele Campolieti, Morley K.L. Gunderson and Jeffrey Smith

The Financial Vulnerability of Former Disability Beneficiaries in Retirement

Jody Schimmel Hyde and April Yanyuan Wu

Electronic Health Records Demonstration: Office Systems Survey Spring 2010

Mathematica Policy Research

Provider Experiences with Chronic Care Management (CCM) Services and Fees: A Qualitative Research Study

Ann O’Malley, Rumin Sarwar, Rosalind Keith, Patrick Balke, Sai Ma and Nancy McCall

Leveraging Benchmarks, Advisory Groups, and Experts to Understand Access in Medicaid

Amanda Lechner, Jenna Libersky, Joe Zickafoose, Allison Dodd and Deborah Chollet

Embedding Job and Career Advancement Services in Healthy Marriage Programs: Lessons from Two Programs in PACT

Heather Zaveri and Robin Dion

QRS Profile: Louisiana Quality Start Child Care Rating System

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Using the MAX-NHANES Merged Data to Evaluate the Association of Obesity and Medicaid Costs

Allison Hedley Dodd and Philip M. Gleason

How Integrated Care Programs Use Community-Based Primary Care Physicians

Valerie Cheh

Indicators of Dietary Qualities for the Nation's School Children

Allen L. Schirm, Mary Kay Fox and Nancy E. Wemmerus

Lessons from LAC Reads: Espacios para Crecer in Nicaragua

Mathematica

Hospitals' Negotiating Leverage with Health Plans: How and Why Has It Changed?

Kelly Devers, Lawrence P. Casalino, Liza S. Rudell, Jeffrey Stoddard, Linda R. Brewster and Timothy K. Lake

Challenges and Solutions in Evaluation Technical Assistance During Design and Early Implementation

Andrew Gothro, Elías S. Hanno and M. C. Bradley

Moving Teenage Parents into Self-Sufficiency: Lessons from Recent Demonstrations

Ellen Eliason Kisker, Rebecca A. Maynard, Anu Rangarajan and Kimberly Boller

Steps Toward Self-Sufficiency: A Study of the Characteristics and Work Participation of TANF Recipients in Fiscal Year 1999

Jonathan Jacobson, Karen Cunnyngham and Holly Gerhart

How Are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Testing the Children's Electronic Health Record Format?

Leslie Foster

Enhancing the Economic Stability and Parenting Skills of Fathers with Criminal Justice Involvement: Highlights from the Second FRAMING Research Responsible Fatherhood Technical Work Group

Julia Alamillo and Lexi Ouellette

The Medicaid Buy-In Program: Quantitative Measures of Enrollment Trends and Participant Characteristics in 2002

Henry T. Ireys, Justin S. White and Craig Thornton