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Using a Human-Centered Design Lens to Examine Community Accountability Programs to Improve Quality of Maternal Health Care in India

Divya Vohra, So O'Neil and Emma Pottinger

The New Economy and Child Care: Nonstandard-Hour Work, Child Care, and Child Health and Well-Being

Angela Rachidi, Russell Sykes, Kerry Dsjardins and Julius Cesar Chaidez

School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study-IV: School Foodservice Operations, School Environments, and Meals Offered and Served (Volume 1)

Mary Kay Fox, Elizabeth Condon, Mary Kay Crepinsek, Katherine Niland, Denise Mercury, Sarah Forrestal, Charlotte Cabili, Vanessa Oddo, Anne Gordon, Nathan Wozny and Alexandra Killewald

Transitions and Continuity of Care: A Discussion of Marketplace, Medicaid, and CHIP Issuers' Decisions and Strategies

Cara Orfield, Michael Barna and Lauren Hula

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program: State Implementation Progress, School Year 2012-2013

Quinn Moore, Kevin Conway, Brandon Kyler and Andrew Gothro

Is It Time to Establish a National Disability Data System? (Issue Brief)

David Stapleton and Craig Thornton

Does Weighting for Nonresponse Increase the Variance of Survey Means? (Journal Article)

Roderick J.A. Little and Sonya Vartivarian

MotherWise: Implementation of a Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Program for Pregnant and New Mothers

Scott Baumgartner and Diane Paulsell

Study Highlights: Study of Enhanced College Advising in Upward Bound: Impacts on Steps Toward College

Alina Martinez, Tamara Linkow, Hannah Miller and Amanda Parsad

Health Workforce Strategies for California: A Review of the Evidence

Diane Rittenhouse, Alexandra Ament, Janice Genevro and Kara Contreary

Small-Group and Individual Coverage

Deborah Chollet

Establishing an Evaluation Technical Assistance Contract to Support Studies in Meeting the US Department of Health and Human Services Evidence Standards (Journal Article)

Russell P. Cole, Susan Goerlich Zief and Jean Knab

What Are Effective School Leaders, and How Can States and Districts Develop Them? (Fact Sheet)

Mid-Atlantic Rel

Disability Beneficiary Work Activity, 2002–2014: Evidence from the Social Security Administration’s Disability Analysis File (DAF)

Michael Levere, Jody Schimmel Hyde, Su Liu and Francoise Becker

Approaches to Measuring Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships: Recommendations and Considerations

Diane Paulsell, Patricia Del Grosso, Sara Bernstein and Eileen Bandel

Preparing Youth in Special Education for Life After High School (Fact Sheet)

Johanna Lacoe, Stephen Lipscomb and Joshua Haimson

Can Charter Schools Boost Civic Participation? The Impact of Democracy Prep Public Schools on Voting Behavior

Brian Gill, Emilyn Rubel Whitesell, Sean Corcoran, Charles Tilley and Mariel Finucane Liz Potamites

Approaches to Developing State-Level Rates for Children's Health Care Quality Measures Based on Data from Multiple Sources

Michaela Vine and Margo Rosenbach

Preparing for Life after High School: The Characteristics and Experiences of Youth in Special Education, Volume 3: Comparisons Over Time

Albert Y. Liu, Johanna Lacoe, Stephen Lipscomb, Joshua Haimson, David R. Johnson and Martha L. Thurlow

Steps to Success: Implementing a Home Visiting Program Designed to Prevent Rapid Repeat Pregnancies Among Adolescent Mothers

Robert G. Wood and Ellen Kisker

Home Health Independence Patients: High Use, but Not Financial Outliers

Valerie Cheh, John Schurrer and Morris Hamilton

What Drives Systems Change?

Naihobe Gonzalez, Nikki Aikens and Jennah Gosciak

Considering a Health Insurance Exchange: Lessons from the Rhode Island Experience

Deb Faulkner, Amy Lischko and Deborah Chollet

Interim Impacts of the Gender Matters Program

Kimberly V. Smith, Claire Dye, Elizabeth Cook, Kristina Rosinsky and Mindy Scott

Beliefs and Endogenous Cognitive Levels: An Experimental Study

Marina Agranov, Elizabeth Potamites, Andrew Schotter and Chloe Tergiman

Sector Strategies: Aligning the Skills of the Workforce with the Needs of Employers

Jessica Ziegler

Evaluation of the Demonstrations to Improve Access to Care for Pregnant Substance Abusers

Embry Howell, Nancy Heiser, Craig Thornton, Daisy Ewell, Mei-Ling Mason, Ira Chasnoff, Ian Hill, Renee Schwalberg and Beth Zimmerman

Replicating the Alaska Longitudinal Child Abuse and Neglect Linkage (ALCANLink) Methodology

Jared Parrish and Abigail Newby-Kew

Design of Value-Added Models for IMPACT and TEAM in DC Public Schools, 2010-2011 School Year

Eric Isenberg and Heinrich Hock

Welfare-to-Work Grants Programs: Adjusting to Changing Circumstances

Demetra Smith Nightingale, Carolyn Taylor O'Brien, Michael Egner, Nancy Pindus and John Trutko

Medicare Governance and Provider Payment Policy

Hoangmai H. Pham, Paul B. Ginsburg and James M. Verdier

In Their Own Words: Voices of Study Participants in the Self-Employment Training Program

Elizabeth Brown, Irma Perez-Johnson, Mary Anne Anderson and Samia Amin

Beneficiary Engagement Toolkit

Nazihah Siddiqui, Sonya Streeter, Ethan Jacobs and Tessa Kieffer

Additional Unemployment Compensation Benefits During the Great Recession: Recipients and Their Post-Claim Outcomes

Heinrich Hock, Walter Nicholson, Karen Needels, Joanne Lee and Priyanka Anand

Commercial Locating Database Efficacy for Telephone Surveys of Low-Income Populations (Presentation)

Kim Mook and Sarah Forrestal

Intertemporal Differences Among MTurk Workers: Time-Based Sample Variations and Implications for Online Data Collection

Logan S. Casey, Jesse Chandler and Adam Seth Levine

Using Logic Models to Guide the Planning and Evaluation of Complex Initiatives

Felicia Hurwitz and Andrew Burwick

Changes in Health Plans Serving Medicaid, 1993-1996

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Sara Yang

Understanding the Effect of KIPP as it Scales: Volume II, Leadership Practices at KIPP

Virginia Knechtel, Mary Anne Anderson, Alyson Burnett, Thomas Coen, Margaret Sullivan, Christina Clark Tuttle and Philip Gleason

Estimated Impacts of TAA on Participants' Outcomes Under the Trade Act of 2002

Peter Schochet

Children in Foster Care: Challenges in Meeting Their Health Care Needs Through Medicaid

Margo Rosenbach

The Effect of Channeling on Health and Long-Term Care Costs

Craig Thornton, Shari Miller Dunstan and Peter Kemper

The Choice Architecture of School Choice Websites

Steven Glazerman, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Jon Valant, Jesse Chandler and Alyson Burnett

What Is the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Deprivation and Child Supplemental Security Income Participation?

Michael Levere, David Wittenburg and Jeffrey Hemmeter

The Role of Local Governments in Medicaid Managed Care: Issues and Options

James M. Verdier

National Job Corps Study: Report on Study Implementation

John Burghardt, Sheena McConnell, Alicia Meckstroth, Peter Schochet, Terry Johnson and John Homrighausen

Earnings and Work Expectations of Social Security Disability Beneficiaries

Gina A. Livermore

Understanding a Collaborative Effort to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Contributions form Social Network Analysis

Marsha Gold, Patrick Doreian and Erin Fries Taylor

High School Reform in Boston Public Schools: The Effect of Focus on High Schools on Student Academic Outcomes

Susanne James-Burdumy, Irma Perez-Johnson and Sonya Vartivarian

The PHS 340B Drug Pricing Program: Results of a Survey of Eligible Entities

Robert Schmitz, So Limpa-Amara, Julita Milliner-Waddell and Frank Potter

Induction Activities Teacher Questionnaire: Study of Teacher Induction Programs

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Propensity Score Matching: A Note of Caution for Evaluators of Social Programs

Deborah N. Peikes, Lorenzo Moreno and Sean Michael Orzol

An Overview of the Longest-Running Statewide Marriage Initiative in the U.S

M. Robin Dion

Santa Clara County Children's Health Initiative Improves Children's Health

Embry Howell and Christopher Trenholm

Health Capital and Human Capital as Explanations for Health-Related Wage Disparities

Donna Gilleskie and Denise Hoffman

The Impacts of a Home Visitation and Life Skills Education Program for Hard-to-Employ TANF Recipients: Findings from the Rural Welfare-to-Work Evaluation

Alicia Meckstroth, Andrew Burwick and Quinn Moore

Implementation of Eight Programs to Strengthen Unmarried Parent Families

M. Robin Dion, Sarah A. Avellar and Elizabeth Clary

The External Review of Job Corps: An Evidence Scan Report

Jillian Berk, Linda Rosenberg, Lindsay Cattell, Johanna Lacoe, Lindsay Fox, Myley Dang and Elizabeth Brown

Testimony for Hearing on Medicare Advantage

Marsha R. Gold

Case Study of an Employment Program Serving People with Low Income: Business Link

Riley Webster and Mary Farrell

Interpreting the Evidence from Recent Federal Evaluations of Dropout-Prevention Programs: The State of Scientific Research

Mark Dynarski

Effects of Economic Conditions and FSP Policy on State FSP Caseloads (Presentation)

Laura Castner, James Mabli and Emily Sama Martin

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: A Report from the National Academy of Medicine

Michael E. Matheny, Danielle Whicher and Sonoo Thadaney Israni

Teaching Self-Sufficiency: An Impact and Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Home Visitation and Life Skills Education Program

Alicia Meckstroth, Andrew Burwick, Quinn Moore, Michael Ponza, Shawn Marsh, Andrew McGuirk, Timothy Novak and Zhanyun Zhao

Evaluation of Demonstrations of National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program Direct Certification of Children Receiving Medicaid Benefits: Year 1 Report

Lara Hulsey, Anne Gordon, Joshua Leftin, Claire Smither-Wulsin, Allen Schirm, Nicholas Beyler, Anna Comerford, Jessica Galin, Brian Estes and Carole Trippe

Development and Evaluation of a Risk-Adjusted Measure of Intraoperative Hypotension in Patients Having Nonemergent, Noncardiac Surgery

Anna Christensen, Ethan Jacobs, Fei Xing, Sharon Zhao, Samuel Simon, Kamal Maheshwari, Karen B. Domino, Karen L. Posner, Alvin F. Stewart, Joseph A. Sanford and Daniel I. Sessler

Care Coordinators in Integrated Care: Burnout Risk, Perceived Supports, and Job Satisfaction

Melanie Au, Matthew Kehn, Henry Ireys, Crystal Blyler and Jonathan Brown

Program Cost, Adequacy of Support, and Induced Labor Supply Reduction

Myles Maxfield and Katherine J. Siena

Individual Characteristics and the Disability Employment Gap

Purvi Sevak, Andrew J. Houtenville, Debra L. Brucker and John O'Neill

Designing and Conducting Early Childhood Home Visiting Evaluations in Tribal Communities: Takeaways from the HomVEE Review of Research with Tribal Populations

Andrea Mraz Esposito, Armando Yañez and Emily Sama-Miller

Public Sector Initiatives to Control Costs: Medicaid

Jim Verdier

Health Benefits for the Uninsured: Design and Early Implementation of the Accelerated Benefits Demonstration

David Wittenburg, Peter Baird, Lisa Schwartz and David Butler

An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert Moffitt and John Scholz

Family Structure and Reproduction of Inequality: A Decomposition Approach

Julia Alamillo

QRS Profile: Los Angeles County Steps to Excellence Project

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Financial Experience of Managed Care Organizations Participating in Medicare+Choice

Robert Schmitz and Thomas Kornfield

Improving Public Coverage for Children: Lessons from CKF in Washington

Sheila Hoag and Chioma Uzoigwe

The Work Incentives Planning and Assistance Program: Promoting Employment Among Social Security Disability Beneficiaries

Jody Schimmel, Bonnie O'Day and Allison Roche

Mathematica in California: Progress Together to Improve and Transform Health Care

Diane Rittenhouse

Impact of Multitiered Copayments on the Use and Cost of Prescription Drugs Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Boyd Gilman and John Kautter

Coordinating Employment Services Across the TANF and WIA Programs (Issue Brief)

Gretchen G. Kirby and Julia Lyskawa

Measurement and Evaluation Checklist: Validate Effectiveness (Phase 4)

Ryan Ruggiero, Mikia Manley, Virginia Knechtel, Kate Place and Megan Shoji

Empowering the “Cheerersâ€: Role of Surgical Intensive Care Unit Nurses in Enhancing Family Resilience

Lauren Ellis, Jessica Gergen, Leah Wohlgemuth, Marie T. Nolan and Rebecca Aslakson

Limited-Service Hospital Pioneers: Challenges and Successes of the Essential Access Community Hospital/Rural Primary Care Hospital (EACH-RPCH) Program and Medical Assistance Facility (MAF) Demonstration

George Wright, Suzanne Felt, Anthony Wellever, Timothy Lake and Stephen Sweetland

Quality Thresholds, Features, and Dosage in Early Care and Education: Discussion and Conclusions

Martha Zaslow, Margaret Burchinal, Louisa Tarullo and Ivelisse Martinez-Beck

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program Expands Access for Children

Philip Gleason

Promoting Integrated Employment: Lessons Learned from States' Efforts to Transform Their Employment Service Systems for People with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities

Noelle Denny-Brown, Leah Guanga and Daniella Sehgal

Disability Benefits Suspended or Terminated Because of Work

Jody Schimmel and David C. Stapleton

Implementation of Two Versions of Relationship Smarts Plus in Georgia

Scott Baumgartner and Heather Zaveri

Data Quality in a Mixed Mode Survey

Claire Wilson, Debra Wright, Tom Barton and Paul Guerino

Intracluster Correlation Coefficients of Household Economic and Agricultural Outcomes in Mozambique

Judy Geyer, Mikal Davis and Tulika Narayan

Overview of State Projects and the National Evaluation

Henry T. Ireys

WIC Turns 35: Program Effectiveness and Future Directions (paper)

Barbara Devaney

State and Local Efforts to Provide Care to the Uninsured in 12 CTS Sites

Erin Fries Taylor, Peter Cunningham and Kelly McKenzie

Summer Feeding Design Study, Vol. II: Feasibility, Design, and Cost of a Participant-Nonparticipant Study

Anne Gordon, Michael Sinclair, Laura Kalb, Fazana Saleem-Ismail, Thomas Godfrey, Stephen Tordella and Priscilla Foran

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 4 Transcript: NSF)

Cynthia Phillips, Rebecca Kruse, Amanda Cash and Dan Finkelstein

Spotlight on Idaho

Dana Petersen and Lisa Schottenfeld

Research Review: Impacts and Implementation of Blended Learning

Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory

Implementing Medicaid Managed Care Amid Skepticism, Anxiety, and Controversy: Suggestions for Program Design, Monitoring, and Reporting

James M. Verdier

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in TRICARE

Ann D. Bagchi, Eric Schone, Patricia Collins Higgins, Elder Granger, S. Ward Casscells and Thomas Croghan