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Strengthening Responsible Fatherhood Programs through Research and Evaluation: PACT and FaMLE Cross-Site (presentation)

Robin Dion

Competencies of Infant and Toddler Teachers and Caregivers: A Compendium of Measures

Harshini Shah, Katherine Niland, Miranda Kharsa, Pia Caronongan and Emily Moiduddin

Testimony to the Interoperability Task Force of the Health IT Policy Committee, ONC

Ann S. O'Malley

Starting Behind: Wage and Employment Differentials Between Young Adults With and Without Disabilities (Journal Article)

David R. Mann and David Wittenburg

Medigap Coverage for Prescription Drugs

Deborah J. Chollet

Socioeconomic Position and Health: The Differential Effects of Education versus Income on the Onset versus Progression of Health Problems

Pamela Herd, Brian Goesling and James S. House

Effects of Incentive Amount and Type of Web Survey Response Rates

Jared Coopersmith, Lisa Klein Vogel, Timothy Bruursema and Kathleen Feeney

Achievement Effects of Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings for First and Second Graders (Issue Brief)

Roberto Agodini, Barbara Harris, Melissa Thomas, Robert Murphy and Lawrence Gallagher

Dental Care Utilization and Retirement

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

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evaluation Technical Assistance: A Case Study

Jean Knab and Russell Cole

Case Study of Massachusett's Express Lane Eligibility Processes

Jennifer Edwards and Diana Rodin

Clinical Nonlicensed Personnel in U.S. Hospitals: Job Trends from 2010 to 2015

Patricia Pittman, Suhui Evelyn Li, Xinxin Han and Time Lowe

Will Administrative Data Save Government Surveys?

Jonathan Auerbach, Quentin Brummet, John Czajka, George C. Hough, Eddie Hunsinger and Joseph Salvo

National Surveys of Military Personnel, Nursing Students, and the Public: Drivers of Military Nursing

Karen Donelan, Carol Romano, Catherine DesRoches, Sandra Applebaum, Johanna R.M. Ward, Bruce A. Schoneboom and Ada Sue Hinshaw

Could There Be a Role for Home Telemedicine in the U.S. Medicare Program?

Lorenzo Moreno, Arnold Chen, Rachel Shapiro and Stacy Dale

FFY 2013 Adult Core Set Reporting in CARTS

Karen Llanos, Jason Williams, Katie Adamek and Bailey Orshan

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: 2016 Stage 1 Interim Process, Participation, and Impact Report

Denise Hoffman, Sarah Croake, David R. Mann, David Stapleton, Priyanka Anand, Chris Jones, Judy Geyer, Daniel Gubits, Stephen Bell, Andrew McGuirk, David Wittenburg, Debra Wrght, Amang Sukasih, David Judkins and Michael Sinclair

Measuring School and Teacher Value Added in DC, 2011-2012 School Year

Eric Isenberg and Heinrich Hock

Who Are the Top Earners in the Medicaid Buy-In Program?

Gilbert W. Gimm, Henry T. Ireys and Caitlin Johnson

Final Evaluation Report: Best Practices for Enrolling Low-Income Beneficiaries into the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program

Mary Laschober and Jung Yee Kim

Human Services for Low-Income and At-Risk LGBT Populations: The Knowledge Base and Research Needs (Brief)

Andrew Burwick, Gary Gates, Scott Baumgartner and Daniel Friend

Evaluating the HCIA – Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse Awards: Second Annual Report

Henry Ireys, Jonathan Brown, Ellen Bouchery, Liz Babalola, Michael Barna, Crystal Blyler, Dan Friend, Christine Fulton, Matt Kehn, Tricia Higgins, Jasmine Little, Jennifer Lyons, Jessica Nysenbaum, Laura Ruttner, Allison Siegwarth, Kate Stewart and Michaela Vine

Youth CareerConnect: Early Implementation Findings

Nan L. Maxwell, Emilyn Whitesell, Jeanne Bellotti, Sengsouvanh (Sukey) Leshnick, Jennifer Henderson-Frakes and Daniela Berman

Assessing the Usability of Encounter Data for Enrollees in Comprehensive Managed Care 2010-2011

Vivian L.H. Byrd and Allison Hedley Dodd

Presenting School Choice Information to Parents: An Evidence-Based Guide, Appendix

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

Million Hearts® Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model: Evaluation Year 2 Findings at a Glance

Greg Peterson, Linda Barterian, Keith Kranker, Amanda Markovitz, Adam Rose, Rumin Sarwar, Allison Steiner, Leslie Conwell, Jia Pu, Michael Barna, David Magid, Kate Steward, Laura Blue, Dan Kinber, Precious Ogbuefi and Nancy McCall

Workload and the Nurse Faculty Shortage: Implications for Policy and Research

Angela M. Gerolamo and Grace F. Roemer

Regional Partnership Grant Rounds 4 and 5 Cross-Site Evaluation Year 2 Annual Report

Sarah Avellar and Rebecca Kleinman

Children with Special Health Care Needs in Commercial Managed Care: Patterns of Service Use and Cost

Henry T. Ireys, Jennifer Humensky, Eileen Paterson, Steve Wickstrom, Bharati Manda and Paula Rheault

The Role of National Firms in Medicare+Choice

Debra Draper, Marsha Gold and John McCoy

Providing Comprehensive Services to Infants: Findings from the National Descriptive Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships

Patricia Del Grosso, Jaime Thomas, Nickie Fung, Michael Levere and Scilla Albanese

Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) Second Follow Up Methodology Report

David DesRoches, Janice Ballou, Frank Potter, Betsy Santos and Zhanyun Zhao

The Impact on Clients of a Community-Based Infant Mortality Reduction Program: The National Healthy Start Program Survey of Postpartum Women

Marie McCormick, Lisa W. Deal, Barbara L. Devaney, Dexter Chu, Lorenzo Moreno and Karen T. Raykovich

Learning More for Children from Medicaid and CHIP Policy Experiments

Joseph S. Zickafoose

Independent Evaluation of the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+): Third Annual Report

Deborah Peikes, Kaylyn Swankoski, Ann O’Malley, Lori Timmins, Dana Petersen, Kristin Geonnotti, Ha Tu, Pragya Singh, Arkadipta Ghosh, Stacy Dale, Rosalind Keith, Dana Jean-Baptiste, Sheila Hoag, Katie Morrison Lee, Rumin Sarwar, Victoria Peebles, Min-Young Kim, Ning Fu, Eunhae Shin, Sean Orzol, Jessica Laird, Nikkilyn Hensleigh, Genna Cohen, Asta Sorensen, Kristie Liao, Melanie Au, Rachel Machta, Janice Genevro, Arnold Chen, Mynti Hossain, Sara Pittman, Shannon Heitkamp and Randall Brown

Self-Assessment of Place-Based Systems Change Efforts

Kristin Hallgren, Daniel Welsh and Ashley Hong

Parents and Children Together: Effects of Four Responsible Fatherhood Programs for Low-Income Fathers

Sarah Avellar, Reginald Covington, Quinn Moore, Ankita Patnaik and April Wu

Using Multifactorial Experiments for Comparative Effectiveness Research in Physician Practices with Electronic Health Record

Jelena Zurovac, Lorenzo Moreno, Jesse Crosson, Randall Brown and Robert Schmitz

Projected Health Care Spending in Minnesota

David Jones and Deborah Chollet

Preparing for Productive Careers: Students' Participation In and Use of Career-Focused Learning Activities

Joshua Haimson and John Deke

NSLP/SBP Final Study Design Plan

Michael Ponza, John Burghardt, Melissa Clark, Todd Ensor, Philip Gleason, John Hall, John Homrighausen and Lara Hulsey

Kauffman Firm Survey Data Overview

David DesRoches, Timothy M. Mulcahy, Alicia Robb and Scott Shane

Economics of Foster Care

Anthony Bald, Joseph J. Doyle, Max Gross and Brian Jacob

What's Happening to TANF Leavers Who Are Not Employed?

Robert G. Wood and Anu Rangarajan

Measuring Comprehensiveness of Primary Care: Challenges and Opportunities

Ann S. O'Malley and Eugene C. Rich

Personal and Contextual Factors Associated With Successful Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Outcomes

Purvi H. Sevak, David R. Mann and John O’Neill

Making a Difference in the Lives of Infants and Toddlers and Their Families: The Impacts of Early Head Start. Volume II: Final Technical Report Appendixes

John M. Love, Ellen Eliason Kisker, Christine Ross, Peter Z. Schochet, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Diane Paulsell, Kimberly Boller, Jill Constantine, Cheri Vogel, Allison Sidle Fuligni and Christy Brady-Smith

Tracking Quality in Head Start Classrooms: FACES 2006 to FACES 2014

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

Helping Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children: Early Implementation Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED) Evaluation

Diane Paulsell, Jennifer L. Noyes, Rebekah Selekman, Lisa Klein Vogel, Samina Sattar and Benjamin Nerad

An Evaluation of the Individual Training Account/Eligible Training Provider Demonstration

Ron D'Amico and Jeffrey Salzman under the direction of Paul Decker

Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Factsheet: Annual Health Care Cost Trends Reports

Mathematica

Summary: Pay-For-Performance

Mathematica Policy Research Staff

Advanced Analytics for Child Welfare: Spotlight on Supervision Support

Elizabeth Weigensberg

Teacher Turnover and Access to Effective Teachers in the School District of Philadelphia, Appendixes

Erin Dillon and Steven Malick

Comprehensiveness: The Need to Resurrect a Sagging Pillar of Primary Care

Tracey L. Henry, Eugene Rich and Andrew Bazemore

Employment and Work Expectations of Social Security Disability Beneficiaries

Gina Livermore

School Instruction in Pennsylvania During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stephen Lipscomb, Forest Crigler and Duncan Chaplin

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

Mary Hyde, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

COVID-19 and State-Level Youth Unemployment Rates, August–October 2020

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

Advanced Analytics (About Us)

Mathematica Policy Reseaerch

International Infant Mortality Rates: Bias from Reporting Differences

Embry Howell and Beatrice Blondel

Health Home Considerations for a Medicaid Managed Care Delivery System: Avoiding Duplication of Services and Payment

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

Effects of Cash and Counseling on Personal Care and Well-Being

Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Leslie Foster, Stacy B. Dale and Randall Brown

An Analysis of 1-Year Impacts of Youth Transition Demonstration Projects

Thomas M. Fraker, Richard G. Luecking, Arif A. Mamun, John M. Martinez, Deborah S. Reed and David Wittenburg

Demand for Health Services Researchers in 2020: The Health Services Research of 2020 Summit on the Future of the Health Services Research Workforce

Craig Thornton and Jonathan Brown

Improving the Design, Targeting, and Effectiveness of Training and Technical Assistance: A Learning Agenda

Mary Anne Anderson, Kara Conroy, Annalisa Mastri, Amanda Benton and Gretchen Lehman

Are the 2004 Payment Increases Helping to Stem Medicare Advantage's Benefit Erosion?

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

Informed Health Plan Choice for Vulnerable Subgroups of Medicare Beneficiaries

Marsha Gold and Beth Stevens

Assessment of the Workforce System's Implementation of the Veterans' Priority of Service Provision of the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002

Stephanie Boraas, Grace Roemer and Katie Bodenlos

Association Between Extending CareFirst's Medical Home Program to Medicare Patients and Quality of Care, Utilization, and Spending

G. Greg Peterson, Kristin Lowe Geonnotti, Lauren Hula, Timothy Day, Laura Blue, Keith Kranker, Boyd Gilman, Kate Stewart, Sheila Hoag and Lorenzo Moreno

Defining and Measuring Quality: An In-Depth Study of Five Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

Pia Caronongan, Gretchen Kirby, Lizabeth Malone and Kimberly Boller

The WWC Attrition Standard: Sensitivity to Assumptions and Opportunities for Refining and Adapting to New Contexts

John Deke and Hanley Chiang

Diet Quality of Americans by Food Stamp Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004

Nancy Cole and Mary Kay Fox

Are Electronic Medical Records Helpful for Care Coordination? Experiences of Physician Practices

Ann S. O'Malley, Joy M. Grossman, Genna R. Cohen, Nicole M. Kemper and Hoangmai H. Pham

Linkages to Care for Newly Diagnosed Individuals Who Test HIV Positive in Nonprimary Care Settings

Boyd Gilman, Julia Hidalgo, Cicely Thomas, Melanie Au and Margaret Hargreaves

An Evaluation of the Long-Term Impacts of the Sponsor-A-Scholar Program on Student Performance: Final Report to the Commonwealth Fund

Amy W. Johnson

Participation in Programs Designed to Improve Employment Outcomes for Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities: Evidence from the New York WORKS Demonstration Project

S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla, Robert R. Weathers, Valerie Melburg, Kimberly Campbell and Nawaf Madi

Care Transformation Toolkit

Nazihah Siddiqui, Sonya Streeter, Maggie Glos, Ethan Jacobs, Rumin Sarwar and Candice Talkington

Emerging National and State Activities on Language Services in Health Care

Melanie Au, Erin Fries Taylor and Marsha Gold

Including Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles in Managed Care: Current Status and Future Prospects

James M. Verdier

Managed Care for Low-Income Populations with Special Needs: The Oregon Experience

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

Addressing Childhood Obesity Through Multisector Collaborations: Evaluation of a National Quality Improvement Effort

Margaret B. Hargreaves, Cara Orfield, Todd Honeycutt, Michaela Vine, Charlotte Cabili, Brandon Coffee-Borden, Michaella Morzuch, Lydie A. Lebrun-Harris and Sylvia K. Fisher

T-MSIS Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Data Book: Treatment of SUD in Medicaid, 2017 (Report to Congress)

Alex Azar

The Avera Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Karen Sautter, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Sherry Aliotta, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol

Final Report on the Youth Transition Demonstration Evaluation

Thomas Fraker, Arif Mamun, Todd Honeycutt, Allison Thompkins and Erin Jacobs Valentine

Descriptive Data on Region XI Head Start Children and Families: AIAN FACES Fall 2019 Data Tables and Study Design

Sara Bernstein, Myley Dang, Ann Li, Ashley Kopack Klein, Natalie Reid, Elizabeth Blesson, Judy Cannon, Jeff Harrington, Addison Larson, Nikki Aikens, Louisa Tarullo and Lizabeth Malone

Income Eligibility for Assistance Under the Affordable Care Act: Technical Memorandum on Estimates for Nonelderly Adults

John L. Czajka

Patient, Agency, and Area Characteristics Associated with Regional Variation in the Use of Medicare Home Health Services

Jennifer Schore

Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS), October 1, 1999 Questionnaire

Mathematica Policy Research

Simplification of Health and Social Services Enrollment and Eligibility: Lessons for California from Interviews in Four States

Scott Cody, Debbie Reed, Danna Basson, Jordan Pedraza, Emily Sama Martin, Betsy Santos and Elisha Smith

Community Approaches to Providing Care for the Uninsured

Erin Fries Taylor, Peter Cunningham and Kelly McKenzie

Why Are Some SSDI-Only Beneficiaries Poor? Insights from the National Beneficiary Survey

Gina Livermore and Maura Bardos

Experiences of State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies with the Ticket to Work Program

Bonnie O'Day and Grant Revell

Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Secondary Data Analyses of Psychometric Properties of Scale Development

Margaret Burchinal, Sandra L. Soliday Hong, Terri J. Sabol, Nina Forestieri, Ellen Peisner-Feinberg, Louisa Tarullo and Martha Zaslow

Vocational Rehabilitation Services for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

Michelle A. Meade, Amy J. Armstrong, Kirsten Barrett, Phyllis S. Ellenbogen and M. Njeri Jackson

Composition and Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

Effects of a Discharge Planning Program on Medicaid Coverage of State Prisoners with Serious Mental Illness

Audra T. Wenzlow, Henry T. Ireys, Bob Mann, Carol Irvin and Judith L. Teich

Analytic Support for Washington Citizens' Work Group on Health Care: Evaluation of Health Care Reform Proposals

Deborah Chollet, Jeffrey Ballou, Alison Wellington, Thomas Bell, Allison Barrett, Gregory Peterson and Stephanie Peterson

Evaluation of the Transition to High-Value Agriculture Project in Moldova: Baseline Findings from the 2013-2014 Farm Operator Survey

Evan Borkum, Seth B. Morgan, Jane Fortson, Alexander Johann and Kenneth Fortson

Reducing Early Childhood Tooth Decay: Strategies for State Medicaid and CHIP Dental Program Managers

Colin Reusch, Meg Booth and Leslie Foster