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Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in Fiscal Year 2015 to Fiscal Year 2017 for All Eligible People and Working Poor People

Karen Cunnyngham

Direct Replications in the Era of Open Sampling

Gabriele Paolacci and Jesse Chandler

Back to Work: Recent SSA Employment Demonstrations for People with Disabilities

David R. Mann and David Wittenburg

Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials

Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen, Jennifer Schore and Randall Brown

The Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment: Implications for National Health Care Reform

Noelle Denny-Brown, Boyd Gilman, Gilbert Gimm, Henry Ireys and Sarah Croake

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Uneven Economic Progress of TANF Recipients

Robert G. Wood, Quinn Moore and Anu Rangarajan

Impact of the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration on Children's Nutritional Status

Ronette Briefel, Ann Collins and Anne Wolf

Targeting High-Need Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage: Opportunities to Address Medical and Social Needs

Eva H. DuGoff, William Buckingham, Amy J. H. Kind, Sandra Chao and Gerard Anderson

Understanding Types of Evidence: A Guide for Educators

Gregory Chojnacki, Alexandra Resch, Alma Vigil, Ignacio Martinez and Steve Bates

Effectiveness of Reading and Math Software Products: Findings from the National Evaluation

Mark Dynarski

Strategies for Supporting Quality in Kith and Kin Child Care: Findings from the Early Head Start Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Evaluation (Presentation)

Diane Paulsell, Debra Mekos, Patricia Del Grosso, Cassandra Rowand and Patti Banghart

Measuring the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation on Food Security

James Mabli, Jim Ohls, Lisa Dragoset, Laura Castner and Betsy Santos

An Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers: AJC Service Delivery in Rural Areas

Hannah Betesh

School Food Purchase Study III: Nutritional Characteristics of School Food Acquisition (Summary)

Mary Kay Crepinsek, Elizabeth Condon and Mary Kay Fox

Reaching Those in Need: Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2013

Karen E. Cunnyngham

Covering Low-Income Childless Adults in Medicaid: Experiences from Selected States

Stephen A. Somers, Allison Hamblin, James M. Verdier and Vivian L.H. Byrd

Competitive Behavior in the HMO Marketplace

Mark V. Pauly, Alan L. Hillman, Myoung S. Kim and Darryl R. Brown

The Relationship Between Health Plan Performance Measures and Physician Network Overlap: Implications for Measuring Plan Quality

Daniel D. Maeng, Dennis P. Scanlon, Michael E. Chernew, Tim Gronniger, Walter P. Wodchis and Catherine G. McLaughlin

Evaluation of the Effect of the Older Americans Act Title III-C Nutrition Services Program on Participants’ Health Care Utilization

James Mabli, Arkadipta Ghosh, Bob Schmitz, Marisa Shenk, Erin Panzarella, Barbara Carlson and Mark Flick

Addressing Child Hunger and Obesity in Indian Country: Report to Congress

Anne Gordon and Vanessa Oddo

The Effects of Marriage on Health: A Synthesis of Recent Research Evidence

Robert G. Wood, Brian Goesling and Sarah Avellar

Public Provision of Postsecondary Education for Transition-Age Youth with Mental Health Conditions

Todd C. Honeycutt, Priyanka Anand, Max Rubinstein and Steven N. Stern

Improving the School Attendance of New Jersey's Youngest Learners: Preschool and Kindergarten Attendance Can Spell Success!

Various Authors

Parents' Preferences for Enhanced Access in the Pediatric Medical Home: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Joseph S. Zickafoose, Lisa R. DeCamp and Lisa A. Prosser

Impact of Payment Errors on SNAP Participants in FY 2009

Carole Trippe and Daisy Ewell

Making MCH Data Count: Assessment of the MCHB Performance Measures

Margo Rosenbach

Quality in the Classroom: How Does Teach For America Measure Up?

Paul T. Decker, Daniel P. Mayer and Steven Glazerman

Early and Later WFNJ Clients: Are Their Experiences Different?

Robert G. Wood, Anu Rangarajan and John Deke

Poor Access to Care Among Individuals with Low Quality of Life

Aparna Keshaviah, Amy Gehrke and Nancy Clusen

Medicaid Access Resource Manual

Eric Morris, Risa Nakajima, Amanda Lechner and Christine O'Malley

National Quality Partners Playbookâ„¢: Improving Access to High-Quality Care for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

The NQP Serious Mental Illness Action Team and which included Mathematica Staff.

Primary Care Redesign and Care Fragmentation Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Lori Timmins, Carol Urato, Lisa M. Kern, Arkadipta Ghosh and Eugene Rich

Report on the Pretest of the Reaching the Working Poor and Poor Elderly Survey: Volume I

Sheena McConnell, Michael Ponza and Rhoda R. Cohen

Program Snapshot: The Safety Net Medical Home Initiative

Dana Petersen, Erin Fries Taylor and Kristin Geonnotti

Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the First Year of a Randomized Controlled Study

Steven Glazerman, Sarah Dolfin, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Eric Isenberg, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Mary Grider and Edward Britton

Protocol for Implementing the Core Net Outcomes Evaluation of the State Partnership Initiative: Data Dictionary and Programs for Implementing the Protocol

Nazmul Khan, Roberto Agodini, Nora Paxton and Craig Thornton

Adult Education Strategies: Identifying and Building Evidence of Effectiveness

Kelley Borradaile, Alina Martinez and Peter Schochet

Roads to Success: Estimated Impacts of an Education and Career Planning Program During Middle School

Duncan Chaplin, Martha Bleeker and Kevin Booker

Evaluation of AHRQs Partnerships for Quality Program: Appendix B

Marsha Gold, Debra Lipson, Melanie Au and Katherine Gruene Segersten

How Many SSDI Beneficiaries Leave the Rolls for Work? More Than You Might Think

Su Liu and David Stapleton

Using MSIS Data to Analyze Mental Health Service Use and Expenditures for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Mental Illness in New Jersey in 1999

Henry Ireys and Ann Cherlow

Interim Impacts of the Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy Program

Kimberly Smith, Dana Rotz, Brian Goesling, Elizabeth Cook, Kelly Murphy and Jack Stevens

Riverside/San Bernardino: Despite Large Medi-Cal Expansion, Many Uninsured Remain

Laurie Felland, Cannon Warren and Dori Cross

Hacia el Cierre de la Brecha en la Evaluacin Lecciones sobre Tres Recientes Evaluaciones de Impacto de Programas Sociales en Amrica Latina y el Caribe

Lorenzo Moreno, Larissa Campuzano, Dan Levy and Randall Blair

Quantifying the Work-Related Overpayments of Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries

Denise Hoffman, Benjamin Fischer and John Jones

Empirical Investigation of Variance Estimators Based on Various Design Options When a Raking Method is Implemented

Don Jang, Joseph K. Garrett, Frank W. Piotrowski and William B. Owens

Contemporaneous and Long-Term Effects of Children’s Public Health Insurance Expansions on Supplemental Security Income Participation

Michael Levere, Sean Orzol, Lindsey Leininger and Nancy Early

The Food Access Environment and Food Purchase Behavior of SNAP Households

James Mabli and Julie Worthington

Primary Care Physicians’ Experiences With and Attitudes Toward Pediatric Quality Reporting

Joseph S. Zickafoose, Henry T. Ireys, Adam Swinburn and Lisa A. Simpson

Sustainability of Covering Kids and Families Coalitions and Activities

Gaylee Morgan and Eileen Ellis

Money Follows the Person Demonstration: Overview of State Grantee Progress January-June 2010

Noelle Denny-Brown, Debra Lipson, Christal Stone and Jessica Ross

Employment Patterns of SSI-First Awardees Who Enter SSDI After Achieving Disability-Insured Status

Jessica Laird, Yonatan Ben-Shalom and Priyanka Anand

Targeting Reemployment Bonuses

Christopher O'Leary, Paul T. Decker, Stephen A. Wandner and Jennifer L. Warlick

Strategies for Measuring the Impacts of Federal Reading Programs on Reading Achievement

Steven Glazerman, John Mullens, Angie KewalRamani and David Myers

Impact of mHealth Interventions for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition at Scale: BBC Media Action and the Ananya Program in Bihar, India

Victoria C. Ward, Hina Raheel, Yingjie Weng, Kala M. Mehta, Priyanka Dutt, Radharani Mitra, Padmapriya Sastry, Anna Godfrey, Melissa Shannon, Sara Chamberlain, Rajani Kaimal, Suzan L. Carmichael, Jason Bentley, Safa Abdalla, Kevin T. Pepper, Tanmay Mahapatra Sridhar Srikantiah, Evan Borkum, Anu Rangarajan, Swetha Sridharan, Dana Rotz, Priya Nanda, Usha Kiran Tarigopula, Yamini Atmavilas, Debarshi Bhattacharya, Gary L. Darmstadt and Ananya Study Group

Improving the Quality of Medicaid Personal Assistance Through Consumer Direction

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

Head Start’s Interaction with Federal, State, and Local Systems

Sara Bernstein, Natalie Reid, Jeffrey Harrington and Lizabeth Malone

Analysis of Associations Between Contemporaneous Job Corps Performance Measures and Impact Estimates from the National Job Corps Study

Jane Fortson and Peter Z. Schochet

District-Charter Collaboration Grant Implementation: Final Findings from Interviews and Site Visits

Moira McCullough, Betsy Keating and Luke Heinkel

The Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program

Demetra Smith Nightingale, Nancy Pindus, John Trutko and Michael Egner

Improving Program Engagement of TANF Families: Understanding Participation and Those with Reported Zero Hours of Participation in Work Activities

Michelle K. Derr and Elizabeth Brown

ACO Care Coordination Toolkit

Nazihah Siddiqui, Sonya Streeter, Ethan Jacobs and Livia Frasso Jaramillo

Findings from a Study of the SSI-SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) Initiative (Presentation)

Emily Sama Martin

Trends in Disparities in Low-Income Children's Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care by Family Immigration Status

Marian Jarlenski, Julia Baller, Sonya Borrero and Wendy L. Bennett

Creating a Dashboard for Pioneer ACOs

Craig D. Schneider

Maternal Health Care Quality Improvement in Rajasthan, India

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra, Matthew Spitzer, Shveta Kalyanwala and Dana Rotz

Perspectives of Physicians and Nurse Practitioners on Primary Care Practice

Karen Donelan, Catherine M. DesRoches, Robert S. Dittus and Peter Buerhaus

Factors Associated With Emergency Department Use by Patients With and Without Mental Health Diagnoses

Matthew Niedzwiecki, Pranav J. Sharma, Hemal K. Kanzaria, Shannon McConville and Renee Y. Hsia

Tips to Improve Medicare-Medicaid Integration Using D-SNPs: Promoting Aligned Enrollment

Erin Weir Lakhmani and Alexandra Kruse

Outcomes from a Certification Program for Early Career Professionals in Supply Chain Management

Nan Maxwell, Sarah Dolfin, Julie Bruch and Dara Lee Luca

What Prevents State Covering Kids & Families’ Grantees from Achieving the Program’s Goals? A Synthesis of Findings on Barriers, 2003–2006

Sheila Hoag and Nora Paxton

Identifying the Evaluation Capacity of Community Health Organizations

Beth Stevens, Daniel Finkelstein, Jung Kim, Michaella Morzuch, Cicely Thomas and Mindy Lipson

The Effectiveness of Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing: A Cluster Randomized Trial (Journal Article)

Susanne James-Burdumy, Brian Goesling, John Deke and Eric Einspruch

Child Care in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities for Women: Findings from the 2008 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services

Jonathan David Brown, Sonya Vartivarian and Cathie E. Alderks

Improving the Use of Data in Health Policymaking: Lessons from RWJF's Information for State Health Policy Program

Marsha Gold, Penny Feldman and Nancy Heiser

Native American “Deaths of Despair†and Economic Conditions

Randall Akee, Donna Feir, Marina Mileo Gorzig, Samuel Myers and Jr.

The Employment-Related Health Insurance and Service Delivery Needs of Persons with Disabilities

John Gettens and Alexis D. Henry

Money Follows the Person Demonstration: Overview of State Grantee Progress, January to June 2011

Noelle Denny-Brown, Debra Lipson, Matthew Kehn, Bailey Orshan and Christal Stone Valenzano

Reducing Poverty Among Children: Evidence from State Policy Simulations

Jessica Pac, Irwin Garfinkel, Neeraj Kaushal, Jaehyun Nam, Laura Nolan, Jane Waldfogel and Christopher Wimer

Evidence-Informed Program Fidelity Tool

Annalisa Mastri

Examining Charter Student Achievement Effects Across Seven States

Ron Zimmer, Brian Gill, Kevin Booker, Stéphane Lavertu and John Wittle

Intervention Dosage in Early Childhood Care and Education: It's Complicated

Barbara A. Wasik, Shira Kolnik Mattera, Chrishana M. Lloyd and Kimberly Boller

Variation in Staff Salary Costs Associated with Characteristics of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities

Ellen Bouchery and Monica Farid

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2013 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel

Kai Filion, Esa Eslami, Katherine Bencio and Bruce Schechter

PREP Snapshot: Inputs and Outcomes: PREP Program Serving Highly Vulnerable Youth

Lauren Murphy, Susan Zief and Lara Hulsey

Provider Organizations At Risk: A Profile of Major Risk-Bearing Intermediaries, 1999

Marsha R. Gold, Robert Hurley and Timothy Lake

Estimating Labor Supply Disincentives of a Negative Income Tax: Some Results and Lessons from the Experiments

Robert Moffitt and Kenneth Kehrer

Public Toilets and Their Customers in Low-Income Accra, Ghana

Dorothy Peprah, Kelly K. Baker, Christine Moe, Katharine Robb, Nii Wellington, Habib Yakubu and Clair Null

Methods for Accounting for Co-Teaching in Value-Added Models (Journal Article)

Heinrich Hock and Eric Isenberg

Successful Aging Factors that Promote Resiliency in At-Risk Individuals

Debbie Peikes

Bridging the Gap in Workforce and Education Services: Career Coaching in the Virginia RETHINKS Health Sciences Education TAACCCT Program

Cecilia Speroni and Nan Maxwell

Sustaining Effective Teacher Practice: The Impact of the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Development on Teachers’ Instruction

Jane Choi, Scott Richman and Sarah Dolfin

Exposure to Advertising and Perception, Interest, and Use of E-Cigarettes Among Adolescents: Findings from the U.S. National Youth Tobacco Survey

Jia Pu and Xiao Zhang

Fathers' Views of Co-Parenting Relationships: Findings from the PACT Evaluation

Daniel Friend, Jeffrey Max, Pamela Holcomb, Kathryn Edin and Robin Dion

Evaluating Collaborations in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Network Analysis

Joseph S. Zickafoose, Laura D. Kimmey, Amber Tomas, Dominick Esposito and Eugene Rich

Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums—Report 2

Allen L. Schirm and Committee Member Others

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 7 Video: Urban Institute)

Demetra Nightingale, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

Recognizing and Supporting Early Childhood Educators and Program Administrators as Agents of Change: An Exploration of Distributed Leadership in Early Care and Education

Anne Douglass, Tamara Halle, Gretchen Kirby and Kerensa Nagle

Does the Amount of Participation in Afterschool Programs Relate to Developmental Outcomes? A Review of the Literature

Jodie Roth, Lizabeth M. Malone and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Dietary Risk Assessment in the WIC Program

Committee on Dietary Risk Assessment in the WIC Program of which Ronette Briefel is a Member