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Marijuana Legalization: Public Health, Safety, and Economic Factors for States to Consider

Aparna Keshaviah, Eric Morris, Dara Lee Luca, Huihua Lu, Sarah Bardin, Colleen Staatz and David Jones

Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Youth Unemployment Rates, by Gender

Hande Inanc and Megan Caruso

How Does the Medicaid Buy-In Program Relate to Other Federal Efforts to Improve Access to Health Coverage for Adults with Disabilities?

Sarah R. Davis and Henry T. Ireys

Modeling Errors in Physical Activity Recall Data

Sarah M. Nusser, Nicholas K. Beyler, Gregory J. Welk, Alicia L. Carriquiry, Wayne A. Fuller and Benjamin M.N. King

Focusing on the Boys: Implementing Wise Guys in Davenport, Iowa

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Lauren Murphy

What Physicians Think About Resource Use Reports

Sunyna S. Williams, Margaret Gerteis, Mary A. Laschober and Myles Maxfield

Testimony on the Summer SNAP for Children Act: Maryland General Assembly

Ronette Briefel

Minimal-Burden Risk Adjusters for the Medicare Risk Program

Randall Brown, Kenneth D. Smith, Sheldon Retchin, Christopher Trenholm, Dexter Chu and Lynne Penberthy

An Evaluation of the Seamless Waiver in Five School Districts

Tania Tasse and James Ohls

Using Medicare Data to Assess Nurse Practitioner-Provided Care

Catherine M. DesRoches, Jennifer Gaudet, Jennifer Perloff, Karen Donelan, Lisa I. Iezzoni and Peter Buerhaus

Tanzania Energy Sector Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Zanzibar Baseline Study

Denzel Hankinson, Lauren Pierce, Duncan Chaplin, Arif Mamun, Minki Chatterji, Shawn Powers and Elana Safran

Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Ron Zimmer and Tim Sass

"Not Very Many Options for the People Who Are Working Here:" Rural Housing Challenges Through the Lens of Two New England Communities

Jessica A. Carson and Marybeth J. Mattingly

Household Lifetime Inequality Estimates in the U.S. Labor Market

Luca Flabbi, James Mabli and Mauricio Salazar

Are the Partnerships Affecting Policy in Their States and Communities?

Bridget Lavin, Valerie Cheh and Beth Stevens

Reaching Those in Need: Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2015

Karen Cunnyngham

Regulating Abortion: Impact on Patients and Providers in Texas

Silvie Colman and Theodore J. Joyce

Public Financing of Home and Community Services for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbances: Selected State Strategies

Henry T. Ireys, Sheila Pires and Meredith Lee

Medicaid Beneficiaries with Congestive Heart Failure: Association of Medication Adherence with Healthcare Use and Costs

Dominick Esposito, Ann D. Bagchi, James M. Verdier, Deo S. Bencio and Myoung S. Kim

Promoting Employment Retention Among TANF Recipients: Lessons from the GAPS Initiative

Robert G. Wood and Diane Paulsell

Medicare Advantage: What Congress Intended?

Marsha Gold

Measuring Infant/Toddler Language Development: Lessons Learned About Assessment and Screening Tools

Yange Xue, Eileen Bandel, Cheri A. Vogel and Kimberly Boller

Predicting Receipt of Social Security Administration Disability Benefits Using Biomarkers and Other Physiological Measures: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Laura Blue, Lakhpreet Gill, Jessica Faul, Kevin Bradway and David Stapleton

Overview of Global Payment

Deborah Chollet

The Impact of Healthy Harlem on the Prevalence of Child Overweight and Obesity and Contributing Factors: Interim Evaluation Report

James Mabli, Martha Bleeker and Mary Kay Fox

Understanding the Local-Level Predictors of Disability Program Flows: New Adult Awards and Beneficiary Work Activity

Jody Schimmel Hyde, Jonathan Schwabish, Paul O’Leary and Dara Lee Luca

Design for an Impact Study of Five Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs and Strategies

Robert G. Wood, Brian Goesling and Diane Paulsell

Discussion of Maternal Stress During Pediatric Primary Care Visits

Jonathan D. Brown and Lawrence S. Wissow

Early Head Start Research and Evaluation (EHSRE) Study: 1996-2001 Appendices, Volume II

John M. Love, Ellen Eliason Kisker and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

The Atlantic Philanthropies' Disadvantaged Children and Youth Program in Ireland and Northern Ireland: Overview of Program Evaluation Findings

Diane Paulsell, Patricia Del Grosso and Mark Dynarski

Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger (EDECH): The Chickasaw Nation Packed Promise Project

Ronette Briefel, Gregory Chojnacki, Vivian Gabor, Philip Gleason, Rebecca Kleinman, Nicholas Redel, Michael Cavanaugh, Charlotte Cabili, Breanna Wakar and Sarah Forrestal

Organizing American Job Centers into Networks for the Delivery of Public Workforce Services

Deborah Kogan

Best Practices in Causal Inference for Evaluations of Section 1115 Eligibility and Coverage Demonstrations

Kara Contreary, Katharine Bradley and Sandra Chao

The Research Design and Methodological Issues for the Cash and Counseling Evaluation

Randall S. Brown and Stacy B. Dale

The Seamless Summer Feeding Waiver: Survey Report

Tania Tasse, James Ohls and Jim Cashion

Monitoring Health Care Access Using Population-Based Surveys: Challenges in Today's Environment

Marsha Gold and Jill Eden

Economic Integration of Latino Immigrants in New and Traditional Rural Destinations in the United States

Randy Capps, Heather Koball and William Kandel

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: A Case Study of Louisiana's LaCHIP Program

Fiona Adams, Embry Howell and Brigette Courtot

Solo Practitioners Remain Important Contributors to Primary Care

Deborah N. Peikes and Stacy Berg Dale

Evaluation of the Health Care Innovation Awards, Round 2: Final Report

Boyd Gilman, Danielle Whicher, Randall Brown, Nancy McCall, Stacy Dale, Laurie Felland, Robert Schmitz, John Schurrer, Lauren Vollmer Forrow, Mark Flick, Jim Derzon and Rizwaan Lakhani

Evaluation Design for the Transition to High-Value Agriculture Project in Moldova

Evan Borkum, Jane Fortson and Candace Miller

State Strategies for Coordinating Medicaid Services and Housing for Adults with Behavioral Health Conditions

Rebecca Kleinman, Matthew Kehn, Allison Wishon Siegwarth and Jonathan Brown

Developing, Tailoring, and Implementing Early Childhood Home Visiting Models in Tribal Communities: Takeaways from the HomVEE Review of Research with Tribal Populations

Andrea Mraz Esposito, Armando Yañez and Emily Sama-Miller

Detailed Tables of Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 2000 to 2005

Kari Wolkwitz

Chartbook: Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use and Reimbursement in 2007

Ann D. Bagchi, James Verdier and Dominick Esposito

Characteristics, Access, Utilization, Satisfaction, and Outcomes of Healthy Start Participants in Eight Sites

Margo Rosenbach, So O'Neil, Benjamin Cook, Lisa Trebino and Deborah Klein Walker

The Welfare Impact of Medicare HMOs

Robert Town and Su Liu

Connecting Math Attitudes With STEM Career Attainment: A Latent Class Analysis Approach

Myley Dang and Karen Nylund-Gibson

Registered Apprenticeship: A Descriptive Study of States’ Systems and Growth

Linda Rosenberg and Rebecca Dunn

Sponsor-A-Scholar: Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Mentoring Program on Student Performance

Amy W. Johnson

Integrating Mathematical Thinking Into Family Engagement Programs

Barbara Harris, Dana Petersen and Claire Smither Wulsin

Receiving Advice About Child Mental Health From a Primary Care Provider: African American and Hispanic Parent Attitudes

Jonathan D. Brown, Lawrence S. Wissow, Ciara Zachary and Benjamin L. Cook

Preventing and Mitigating the Effects of ACEs by Building Community Capacity and Resilience: APPI Cross-Site Evaluation Findings (Final Report Executive Summary)

Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Margaret B. Hargreaves, Samantha Penoyer, Norberto Moreales, Brandon Coffee-Borden and Emilyn Whitesell

Factors Associated with Geographic Variation in Cost Per Episode of Care for Three Medical Conditions (Journal Article)

Jack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky, Alistair J. O'Malley and Bruce E. Landon

After the Demonstration: What States Sustained After the End of Federal Grants to Improve Children’s Health Care Quality

Henry T. Ireys, Cindy Brach, Grace Anglin, Kelly J. Devers and Rachel Burton

Optimal Matching Approaches in Health Policy Evaluations Under Rolling Enrolment

Samuel D. Pimentel, Lauren Vollmer Forrow, Jonathan Gellar and Jiaqi Li

Results from a Radical Makeover of a Care Coordination Program Show How Program Design Affects Success in Reducing Hospitalizations and Costs: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Before and After Key Changes in Program Design

D. Peikes, G. Peterson, R. Brown, J. Schore, C. Razafindrakoto, S. Graff and J. Lynch

Promise Neighborhoods Case Studies: Final Report

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

The Implications of Comparative Effectiveness Research for Academic Medicine

Eugene C. Rich, Ann C. Bonham and Darrell G. Kirch

Early Identification of Potential SSDI Entrants in California: The Predictive Value of State Disability Insurance and Workers’ Compensation Claims

Frank Neuhauser, Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

Training and Credentialing Strategies to Support Working Families

Jessica Harding, Elizabeth Brown, Nickie Fung, Kara Conroy, Jeanette Holdbrook, Grace Roemer and Max Rankin

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: The Effectiveness of Mandatory Services for Welfare-Dependent Teenage Parents

Rebecca Maynard, Walter Nicholson and Anu Rangarajan

Youth CareerConnect: Engaging Employers and Workforce Agency Partners

Erin Dillon

Work-Related Overpayments of Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries: Prevalence and Descriptive Statistics

Denise Hoffman, Benjamin Fischer, John Jones, Andrew McGuirk and Miriam Loewenberg

Identification des Meilleures Pratiques Parmi les Programmes WISEWOMAN FEMME PRUDENTE Moyennant des Mthodes evaluation Mixtes

Melanie Besculides, Heather Zaveri, Roseanne Farris and Julie Will

Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Logistic Regression with Complex Survey Data

Amang Sukasih, Donsig Jang and Haixia Xu

Features of Programs Designed to Help Families Achieve Economic Security and Promote Child Well-Being

Emily Sama-Miller and Scott Baumgartner

Using Data from Schools and Child Welfare Agencies to Predict Near-Term Academic Risks, Appendixes

Julie Bruch, Jonathan Gellar, Lindsay Cattell, John Hotchkiss and Phil Killewald

Supporting States and Counties on the Path to Implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act

Elizabeth Weigensberg

Making the Business Case for Addressing Health-Related Social Needs

Laura Hanson, Mario Gruszczynski, Kelsey Cowen and Risa Nakajima

Application of Adult-Based Dietary Guidelines to Children: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Policy Implications

Ronette R. Briefel, Allison Hedley Dodd, Charlotte Cabili and Carol West Suitor

Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC): Early Experiences Through June 2011 of the Proof-of-Concept Year (Summary)

J. Bellotti, A. Collins and C. Owens

Building a Health Information Technology Infrastructure in Long-Term Care

Elizabeth O. Babalola, Rosa R. Bair, Stefan Gravenstein, Lauren Capizzo, Amy Zimmerman and Rebekah Gardner

Case Study of California: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Jennifer Sullivan, Ian Hill and Christopher Trenholm

Electronic Health Record Adoption in US Hospitals: Progress Continues, But Challenges Persist

Julia Adler-Milstein, Catherine M. DesRoches, Peter Kralovec, Gregory Foster, Chantal Worzala, Dustin Charles, Talisha Searcy and Ashish K. Jha

Executive Summary of the Sixth Ticket to Work Evaluation Report

Gina Livermore, Bonnie O'Day, Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Sarah Prenovitz, Jody Schimmel and Craig Thornton

Areas of CKF Influence on Medicaid and SCHIP Programs

Gaylee Morgan, Eileen Ellis and Kathy Gifford

Implementing Welfare-to-Work Programs in Rural Places: Lessons from the Rural Welfare-to-Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation

Andrew Burwick, Vinita Jethwani and Alicia Meckstroth

The Experiences of SCHIP Enrollees and Disenrollees in 10 States: Findings from the Congressionally Mandated SCHIP Evaluation (Appendixes)

Christopher Trenholm, Genevieve Kenney, Welmoet van Kammen, Lisa Dubay, Frank Potter, Jamie Rubenstein, Myoung Kim, Anna Sommers, Lorenzo Moreno, Stephen Zuckerman, Barbara Schiff, Fredric Blavin, William Black and Grace Ko

Evaluation Design Report for the Secondary Education Activity of the Morocco Education & Training Project

Paolo Abarcar, Emilie Bagby, Galina Lapadatova, Caroline Lauver, Audrey Moore and Matt Sloan

Building Staff Co-Regulation to Support Healthy Relationships in Youth

Aly Frei, Mindy Herman-Stahl and Scott Baumgartner

Transitions from Medicare-Only to Medicare-Medicaid Enrollment

Rosemary Borck, Carol V. Irvin and Wilfredo Lim

Legal Status and Deprivation in Urban Slums over Two Decades

Laura B. Nolan, David Bloom and Ramnath Subbaraman

Review of WIC Food Packages: Improving Balance and Choice, Final Report

Committee to review WIC food packages of which Mary Kay Fox is a Member

Opportunities for Early Intervention to Avoid Prolonged Work Disability: Introduction to the Special Section

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and Jody Schimmel Hyde

Effect of Consumer Direction on Adults' Personal Care and Well-Being in Arkansas, New Jersey, and Florida

Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Stacy Dale, Leslie Foster, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Jennifer Schore

Detroit Motor City to Medical Mecca

Jon Christianson, Grace Anglin, Amelia Bond, Peter Cunningham, Gretchen Kishbauch and Hoangmai H. Pham

The New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Reemployment Demonstration Project: Final Evaluation Report

Walter Corson, Paul T. Decker, Shari Miller Dunstan and Anne R. Gordon

Ticket to Work at the Crossroads: A Solid Foundation with an Uncertain Future

David Stapleton, Gina Livermore, Craig Thornton, Bonnie O'Day, Robert Weathers, Krista Harrison, So O'Neil, Emily Sama Martin, David Wittenburg and Debra Wright

Continuous Coverage: Removing Barriers to Children's Health Care

Carol Irvin, Deborah Peikes, Christopher Trenholm and Nazmul Khan

Is Household Wealth Associated With Use of Long-Acting Reversible and Permanent Methods of Contraception? A Multi-Country Analysis

Jorge I. Ugaz, Minki Chatterji, James N. Gribble and Kathryn Banke

Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition

Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs of which John L. Czajka is a Memeber

Developing Personalized Survivorship Care Pathways in the United States: Existing Resources and Remaining Challenges

Caitlin B. Biddell, Lisa P. Spees, Deborah K. Mayer, Stephanie B. Wheeler, Justin G. Trogdon, Jason Rotter and Sarah A. Birken

Encouragement Emails Increase Participation in Reemployment Services

Matthew Darling, Christopher O'Leary, Irma Perez-Johnson, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Ken Kline, Ben Damerow and Randall Eberts

School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study Final Report Volume 3: School Meal Costs and Revenues

Christopher W. Logan, Vinh Tran, Maria Boyle, Ayesha Enver, Matthew Zeidenberg and Michele Mendelson

Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start

Deborah Peikes, Aparajita Zutshi, Janice L. Genevro, Michael L. Parchman and David S. Meyers

The Puzzling Popularity of the PPO

Robert E. Hurley, Bradley C. Strunk and Justin S. White

E. D. TABS Academic Libraries: 1994

Margaret W. Cahalan and Natalie Justh

Initial Impacts of the Ticket to Work Program for Young New Social Security Disability Awardees: Estimates Based on Randomly Assigned Mail Months

David Stapleton, Arif Mamun and Jeremy Page

Paying for Medicaid Coverage: An Overview of Monthly Payments in Section 1115 Demonstrations

Katharine Bradley, Maggie Colby, Vivian Byrd and Kristin Maurer