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PREP Snapshot: Inputs and Outcomes: PREP Programs Serving Homeless or Runaway Youth

Lauren Murphy, Susan Zief and Lara Hulsey

How Did Expansions of Children’s Public Health Insurance Affect Participation in the Supplemental Security Income Program?

Michael Levere, Sean Orzol, Lindsey Leininger and Nancy Early

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of New Jersey's FamilyCare Program

Nancy Fasciano and Ruchika Bajaj

Strengthening Relationship Education and Marriage Services: An Evaluation to Improve Service Delivery and Effectiveness (fact sheet)

Diane Paulsell and Robert Wood

Consumer and Counselor Experiences in the Arkansas IndependentChoices Program

Jennifer Schore and Barbara Phillips

The Affordable Care Act (ACA): What Are the Implications for the Employment of People with Disabilities?

David Stapleton

Medicare's Private Plans: A Report Card on Medicare Advantage

Marsha Gold

Independent Evaluation of Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+): First Annual Report, Appendices to the Supplemental Volume

Deborah Peikes, Grace Anglin, Mary Harrington, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kristin Geonnotti, Ann O'Malley, Stacy Dale, Laura Blue, Sean Orzol, Rachel Machta, Jessica Laird, Pragya Singh, Anne Mutti, Nikkilyn Morrison, Grace Oh, Nancy Duda, Geraldine Haile, Min-Young Kim, Jeffrey Holt, John Schurrer, Jia Pu, Greg Peterson, Lauren Vollmer, Keith Kranker, Jesse Crosson, Sheila Hoag, Dana Petersen, Mariel Finucane, Carol Urato and Randall Brown

QRS Profile: New Hampshire Quality Rating System

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Can Managed Care and Competition Control Medicare Costs?

Marsha Gold

Boulder Valley Care Network’s Provider Engagement Strategy (Case Study)

Ethan Jacobs and Denise Stone

Evaluation of the Rwanda Threshold Program: Baseline Report

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Lindsay Wood, Matt Sloan and Anu Rangarajan

Staying Employed: Services and Supports for Workers With Disabilities

Noelle Denny-Brown, Bonnie O'Day and Stephanie McLeod

Child Care and Early Education Arrangements of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: 2001

Gail M. Mulligan, DeeAnn Brimhall, Jerry West and Christopher Chapman

Reducing Homelessness Among Youth with Child Welfare Involvement: An Analysis of Phase I Planning Processes in a Multi-phase Grant

Matthew Stagner, Lisa Klein Vogel, Emily Knas, Nickie Fung, Julie Worthington, M. C. Bradley, Angela D'Angelo, Andrew Gothro and Courtney Powers

Reaching the Underserved Elderly and Working Poor in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Evaluation Findings from the Fiscal Year 2009 Pilots (Summary)

Jacqueline Kauff, Lisa Dragoset, Elizabeth Clary, Elizabeth Laird, Libby Makowsky and Emily Sama-Miller

Precision Gains from Publically Available School Proficiency Measures Compared to Study-Collected Test Scores in Education Cluster-Randomized Trials

John Deke, Lisa Dragoset and Ravaris Moore

Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: 2012 Congressional Status Report

Ronette Briefel, Ann M. Collins, Gretchen Rowe, Anne Wolf, Jacob Alex Klerman, Christopher W. Logan, Claire Smither Wulsin, Ayesha Enver, Cheryl Owens, Jessica Jacobson and Stephen Bell

Why We Fight: Understanding Military Participation Over the Life Cycle (Journal Article)

David R. Mann

Reaching Those in Need: State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2008

Karen E. Cunnyngham and Laura A. Castner

Los Angeles Universal Preschool Programs, Children Served, and Children's Progress in the Preschool Year: Final Report of the First 5 LA Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study

John M. Love, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Cheri Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Yange Xue, Maricar Mabutas, Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Emily Sama Martin, Nora Paxton, Margaret Caspe, Susan Sprachman and Kathy Sonnenfeld

Invited Commentary: First Publications from the Schools and Staffing Survey, 1999-2000

Daniel P. Mayer

Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Unmarried Couples with Children: Early Lessons from the Building Strong Families Project

M. Robin Dion, Sarah A. Avellar, Heather H. Zaveri and Alan M. Hershey

Roadmap for Change—Linking Learning to Careers Program

Kara Contreary

Policies and Programs to Improve Secondary Education in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence

Clair Null, Clemencia Cosentino, Swetha Sridharan and Laura Meyer

The Late Pretest Problem in Randomized Control Trials of Education Interventions

Peter Z. Schochet

False Performance Gains: A Critique of Successive Cohort Indicators

Steven Glazerman and Liz Potamites

Learning about Infant and Toddler Early Education Services (LITES): Summarizing the Research and Gaps on Compelling Models

Patricia Del Grosso, Christopher Jones, Diane Paulsell and Shannon Monahan

Conducting Surveys with Proxies: Evaluating a Standardized Measure to Determine Need

Sara Skidmore, Kirsten Barrett, Debra Wright and Jennifer Gardner

Maximizing the Value of Philanthropic Efforts Through Planned Partnerships Between the U.S. Government and Private Foundations

Ann E. Person, Debra A. Strong, Joshua Furgeson and Jillian A. Berk

Outcomes of Stroke Patients in Medicare Fee for Service and Managed Care

Sheldon M. Retchin, Randall S. Brown, Shu-Chuan Jennifer Yeh, Dexter Chu and Lorenzo Moreno

A Randomized Controlled Trial Measuring Effects of Extra Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Benefits on Child Food Security in Low-Income Families in Rural Kentucky

Gregory Chojnacki, Andrew Gothro, Philip Gleason and Sarah Forrestal

Applying Insights from Adult Learning Theory to Improve Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programming

Julia Alamillo, Ann Person, Liana Washburn and Heather Gordon

Using Kindergarten Entry Assessments to Measure Whether Philadelphia’s Students Are On-Track for Reading Proficiently

Jessica F. Harding, Mariesa Herrmann, Elias S. Hanno and Christine Ross

School Improvement Grants: Implementation and Effectiveness (In Focus Brief)

Lisa Dragoset, Jaime Thomas, Mariesa Herrmann, John Deke, Susanne James-Burdumy, Cheryl Graczewski, Andrea Boyle, Rachel Upton, Courtney Tanenbaum and Jessica Giffin

Staffing Jail-Based American Job Centers

Mika Clark

Participant-Driven Delivery of Integrated Social Services: Building a Model and Examining Its Implementation

Nan Maxwell, Margaret Sullivan, Mary Anne Anderson and T'Pring Westbrook

Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value-Added

Steven Glazerman, Susanna Loeb, Dan Goldhaber, Doug Staiger, Stephen Raudenbush and Grover Whitehurst

Back to the Drawing Board: New Directions in Health Plans' Care Management Strategies

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Glen P. Mays

HCSDB Annual Report 2003: Results from the Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries

Natalie Justh, Sylvia Kuo, Rebecca Nyman, Eric Schone and Fabrice Smieliuasukas

Modernization of the Food Stamp Program in Florida (Summary)

Scott Cody, Renee Nogales and Emily Sama-Martin

Family Development and Self-Sufficiency (FaDSS): Implementation Findings from the Evaluation of Employment Coaching

Deena Schwartz, Karen Gardiner, Kristen Joyce, Sheena McConnell and Correne Saunders

The Evaluation of the National Long-Term Care Demonstration: Tables Comparing Channeling to Other Community Care Demonstrations

Robert A. Applebaum, Margaret Harrigan and Peter Kemper

Addressing Barriers to Employment: Detecting and Treating Health and Behavioral Problems Among New Jersey's TANF Clients

Debra A. Strong, Joshua Haimson and Linda Rosenberg

Risk Adjustment: What is the Current State of the Art, and How Can it Be Improved?

Eric Schone and Randall S. Brown

National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 7 (Volume 3 of 3): User’s Guide for Restricted Access and Public Use Files

Ryan Callahan, Eric Grau, Aleks Wec, Kim McDonald, Bevin Mory, Leah Pranschke and Jason Markesich

Engaging Fathers During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond (Program Snapshot)

Armando Yañez and Rebekah Selekman

First-Year Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs

Rebecca A. Maynard, Christopher Trenholm, Barbara Devaney, Amy Johnson, Melissa A. Clark, John Homrighausen and Ece Kalay

Emergency Unemployment Compensation: The 1990s Experience

Walter Corson, Karen Needels and Walter Nicholson

ESER Reporting Guide for Study Authors

Office of Planning and Research Evaluation with assistance from Mathematica Policy Research

Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit

Dara Lee Luca and Michael Luca

Integra Community Care Network's Approach to Advance Care Planning (Case Study)

Natalie Graves and Jessica McNab

Integrating Behavioral and Physical Health for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees: Lessons for States Working With Managed Care Delivery Systems

Melanie Au, Claire Postman and James Verdier

Health Care Cost Concerns Intensify in Little Rock

Debra A. Draper, John F. Hoadley, Jessica Mittler, Sylvia Kuo, Gloria J. Bazzoli, Peter J. Cunningham, Len M. Nichols and Leslie Jackson Conwell

Quantification of Exposure to Fecal Contamination in Open Drains in Four Neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana

Stephanie R. Gretsch, Joseph A. Ampofo, Kelly K. Baker, Julie Clennon, Clair A. Null, Dorothy Peprah, Heather Reese, Katharine Robb, Peter Teunis, Nii Wellington, Habib Yakubu and Christine L. Moe

Improving Outcomes for High-Risk, High-Cost Patients: Considerations for Spreading Models

Deborah Peikes and Erin Fries Taylor

Implementing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Puerto Rico: A Feasibility Study (Brief)

Anne Peterson, Bryan Johnson, Benjamin E. Moulton, Emily O. Smith, Alexandra Suchman, Claire Wilson, Shiara Francisquini Oquendo, Jacqueline Kauff, Jonathan Ladinsky and Laura Castner

Rethinking Common Backbone Functions as Capacities

Matthew Closter

The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Final Impacts

Allen Schirm, Elizabeth Stuart and Allison McKie

Quality Support Coaching in LAUP: Pilot Study Findings (Presentation)

Mathematica Policy Research

Assessment of the National Quality Forum's Consensus Development Process

Marsha Gold, Leslie Conwell, Kate Stewart, Jessica Nysenbaum and Stephanie Peterson

Evaluation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Transmission Mitigation Strategies on a University Campus Using an Agent-Based Network Model

Ravi Goyal, John Hotchkiss, Robert T. Schooley, Victor De Gruttola and Natasha K. Martin

Outreach to Low-Income Families During the First Year of HeA PA

Maggie Colby

Modeling of High-Risk Indicators of Certification Error in the National School Lunch Program (Summary)

Quinn Moore, Nancy Cole and Elizabeth Potamites

A Roadmap to a 21st-Century Disability Policy

David Mann and David Stapleton

Best Practices in Public Health Systems Research: Resources and Gaps in Administrative Data to Identify Relevant Population Health Outcomes

Marsha Gold

The Nutrition Services Program Outcomes Evaluation (Fact Sheet)

James Mabli and Liz Gearan

The Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare System Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

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

The Effects of PACE on Medicare and Medicaid Expenditures

Leslie Foster, Robert Schmitz, Peter Kemper, Amy Zambrowski, Mei-Ling Mason, Matthew Jacobus, Jill Gurvey and Jeffrey Holt

Measures of Implementation and Cost that Work Together to Support Quality in Early Care and Education Centers

Pia Caronongan, Gretchen Kirby and Katie Gonzalez

Chartbook: Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use and Reimbursement in 2003

Jim Verdier, Ann Bagchi and Dominick Esposito

Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Safety Net Hospitals

Laurie Felland, Peter Cunningham, Annie Doubleday and Cannon Warren

State Efforts to Address the Healthy People 2010 Goal to Eliminate Health Disparities: Two Case Studies

Leslie Jackson Conwell, Melissa Neuman and Marsha Gold

Assessing Trends in Violence and Violence Prevention in Oakland, California: 2016-2019

Natalie Larkin, Anthony D'Agostino and Naihobe Gonzalez

A Study of the Effect of Talent Search on Secondary and Postsecondary Outcomes in Florida, Indiana, and Texas

Jill M. Constantine, Neil S. Seftor, Emily Sama Martin, Tim Silva and David Myers

Chartbook: Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use and Reimbursement in 2008

Ann D. Bagchi, James Verdier and Dominick Esposito

National Patterns of Risk-Standardized Mortality and Readmission for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure

Susannah Bernheim, Jacqueline Grady, Zhenqiu Lin, Yun Wang, Yongfei Wang, Shantal Savage, Kanchana Bhat, Joseph Ross, Mayur Desai, Angela Merrill, Lein Han, Michael Rapp, Elizabeth Drye, Sharon-Lise Normand and Harlan Krumholz

Evaluating the Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Disposition Patterns and Outcomes of Discharged Patients

Mahshid Abir, Jason E. Goldstick, Rosalie Malsberger, Andrew Williams, Sebastian Bauhoff, Vikas I. Parekh, Steven Kronick and Jeffrey S. Desmond

Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children: Early Experiences through June 2011 of the Proof-of-Concept Year

Jeanne Bellotti, Ann Collins, Cheryl Owens, Charlotte Cabili, Christopher W. Logan, Carissa Climaco, Nora Paxton, Peter Relich and Saty Patrabansh

Evaluation of the Federal Talent Search Program Phase II and Phase III: Feasibility Report

Myles Maxfield, Maggie Cahalan, Tim Silva, Justin Humphrey and Melissa Thomas

Applying Advocacy Skills in Tumultuous Times: Adaptive Capacity of Insuring America's Children Grantees

Jung Y. Kim, Victoria Peebles and Christopher A. Trenholm

The Effects of a Primary Care Transformation Initiative on Primary Care Physician Burnout and Workplace Experience

Deborah N. Peikes, Kaylyn Swankoski, Sheila D. Hoag, Nancy Duda, Jared Coopersmith, Erin Fries Taylor, Nikkilyn Morrison, Maya Palakal, John Holland, Timothy J. Day and Laura L. Sessums

Program Participation Patterns Among Persons with Disabilities

Pat Doyle, Esther Miller and Jim Sears

The Costs and Benefits of Expanding Hepatitis C Screening in the Indian Health Service

Divya Vohra, Monica Huang and So O'Neil

Consumption of Low-Nutrient Energy-Dense Foods and Beverages at School Home and Other Locations Among School Lunch Participants and Nonparticipants

Ronette R. Briefel, Ander Wilson and Philip M. Gleason

Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenses for Medicare HMO Beneficiaries: Estimates by Health Status, 1999-2001

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

A Second Year in Head Start: Characteristics and Outcomes of Children Who Entered the Program at Age Three

Louisa Tarullo, Nikki Aikens, Emily Moiduddin and Jerry West

Measuring the Quality of Caregiver-Child Interactions for Infants and Toddlers (Q-CCIIT)

Sally Atkins-Burnett, Shannon Monahan, Louisa Tarullo, Yange Xue, Elizabeth Cavadel, Lizabeth Malone and Lauren Akers

An Analysis of Pooled Evidence from the Pennsylvania and Washington Reemployment Bonus Demonstrations

Paul T. Decker and Christopher O'Leary

Employer Resource Networks: Uniting Businesses and Public Partners to Improve Job Retention and Advancement for Low-Wage Workers

Michelle Derr and Pamela Holcomb

Medicaid Prescription Drug Use by Dual Eligibles: Issues for Medicare Part D

James Verdier, Ann Bagchi and Dominick Esposito

The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Implementation Findings

Myles Maxfield, Laura Castner, Vida Maralani and Mary Vencill

Evaluation of the Burkina Faso Agriculture Development Project: Interim Report

Christopher Ksoll, Randall Blair, Seth Morgan, Caroline Lauver and Yiriyibin Bambio

Life Course Trajectories of Maternal Cardiovascular Risk Factors According to Offspring Birthweight: The HUNT Study

Julie Horn, Eirin B. Haug, Amanda R. Markovitz, Abigail Fraser, Lars J. Vatten, Pål R. Romundstad, Janet W. Rich-Edwards and Bjørn O. Åsvold

A Broader View: The National Evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, Design Report, Volume II: Instruments

Mark Dynarski, Susanne James-Burdumy, Wendy Mansfield, Daniel P. Mayer, Mary T. Moore, John Mullens, Tim Silva, Carol Pistorino and Douglas Hermond

Coordinating Care for Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries: An Early Look

Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes and Jennifer Schore

Evaluating Pooled Evidence from the Reemployment Bonus Experiments

Paul T. Decker and Christopher O'Leary

The Planning and Implementation of Channeling: Early Experience of the National Long-Term Care Demonstration Preliminary Report Number 1

Raymond J. Baxter, Robert Applebaum, James J. Callahan, Jr, Jon B. Christianson and Stephen L. Day

Evaluation of MCC's Vocational Education and Training Activity in Namibia: Findings from Analysis of the First Round of Qualitative Data

Arif Mamun, Luke Heinkel, Evan Borkum and Kristen Velyvis

Strengthening Principal Preparation Through On-The-Job Training: Insights from KIPP's Strategies for Developing Assistant Principals as School Leaders

Jeff Archer and Jeffrey Max