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Influence of Maternal Diet on Flavor Transfer to Amniotic Fluid and Breast Milk and Children's Responses: A Systematic Review

Joanne Spahn, Emily Callahan, Maureen Spill, Yat Ping Wong, Sara Benjamin-Neelon, Leann Birch, Maureen Black, Ronette Briefel, John Cook, Myles Faith, Julie Mennella and Kellie Casavale

Successful Aging Factors that Promote Resiliency in At-Risk Individuals

Debbie Peikes

Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums—Report 2

Allen L. Schirm and Committee Member Others

Dietary Risk Assessment in the WIC Program

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

Modernizing Medicare Savings Programs to Better Serve Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: Alignment of Medicare Savings Program Eligibility with the Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy Program

Erin Weir Lakhmani

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

Employment, Earnings, and Primary Impairments Among Beneficiaries of Social Security Disability Programs

David R. Mann, Arif Mamun and Jeffrey Hemmeter

Crowdsourcing Samples in Cognitive Science

Neil Stewart, Jesse Chandler and Gabriele Paolacci

Data Management for Pre- and Post-Release Workforce Services

Jillian Stein

Food Stamp Program Entry and Exit: An Analysis of Participation Trends in the 1990s

Scott Cody, Phil Gleason, Bruce Schechter, Miki Satake and Julie Sykes

Partnership for Patients: Interim Evaluation Report

Robert Fornango, Gina M. Tignini, Cindy Strickland, Rochelle Malinoff, Michael Lichter, Ravee Nithianandam, Nikhil Nagaraj, Bin Gu, Jason Martindale, Sunny Bateman, Julia Lewis, Malissa Mojica, Brian Starr, Valerie Cheh, Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Jelena Zurovac, Keith Kranker, Jessica Heeringa, Lori Timmins, Andrea Wysocki, Javier Rodriguez, Linda Barterian, Mariel Finucane, Arnold Chen, Catherine McLaughlin, Kirsten Barrett, Tyler Fisher, Lauren Vollmer, Alex Bryce and Boriana Pratt

Santa Clara County Children's Health Initiative Outreach and Enrollment Efforts Are Effective and Helpful to Parents

Dana Hughes (ucsf)

Evaluation Reporting at a Glance

Lauren Murphy and Katie Adamek

Predicting Early Fall Student Enrollment in the School District of Philadelphia

Sean Tanner, Jenna Terrell, Emily Vislosky, Jonathan Gellar and Brian Gill

Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques, Part 2: Analysis of Variance

Jeffrey E. Harris, Patricia M. Sheean, Philip M. Gleason, Barbara Bruemmer and Carol Boushey

Links between Shared Reading and Play, Parent Psychosocial Functioning, and Child Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Adriana Weisleder, Carolyn Brockmeyer Cates, Jessica F. Harding, Samantha B. Johnson, Caitlin F. Canfield, Anne M. Seery, Caroline D. Raak, Angelica Alonso, Benard P. Dreyer and Alan L. Mendelsohn

Examining New York’s Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Demonstration: Achievements at the Demonstration’s Midpoint and Lessons for Other States

Laurie Felland, Debra Lipson and Jessica Heeringa

Estimating the “Effective Teaching Gapâ€

Eric Isenberg, Jeffrey Max, Philip Gleason and Jonah Deutsch

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

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

Where, Exactly, are the RDD non-Respondents? A GIS-Based Approach to Quantifying Potential Bias

Ned English, Lisa Schwartz and Lisbeth Goble

Analysis of Dissemination and Impact of the Integrated Delivery System Research Network

Marsha Gold, Erin Fries Taylor and Tara Krissik

Benin Power Compact Policy Reform and Institutional Strengthening Project: Evaluation Design

Sarah Hughes, Patricia Costa, Cullen Seaton, Arif Mamun, Dara Bernstein and Nils Junge Catalina Torrente

Are Ratings from Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems Valid Measures of Program Quality? A Synthesis of Validation Studies from Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge States

Lindsay Fox, Moira McCullough, Pia Caronongan and Mariesa Herrmann

Using the Infrastructure of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program to Deliver a Scalable Integrated Early Child Development Program in Colombia: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Orazio Attanasio, Camila Fernández, Emla O. A. Fitzsimons, Sally M. Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio-Codina

Unemployment Among Younger and Older Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

Evaluation of the Helping You Take Care of Yourself Curriculum 2009-2010

Mindy Lipson, Melanie Besculides, Ebo Dawson-Andoh and Nicholas Redel

The Food Choices of Low-Income Households

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Barbara Devaney

Economic Vulnerability of Households With Essential Workers

Grace McCormack, Christopher Avery, Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer and Amitabh Chandra

The Effects of Cash-Out on Food Use by Food Stamp Program Participants in San Diego

Jim C. Ohls, Thomas M. Fraker, Alberto P. Martini and Michael Ponza

An Analysis of Communicative Language Functions in the Speech Patterns of Bilingual Korean and Mexican Immigrant Children

Jin Sook Lee, Jane Y. Choi and Laura Marqués-Pascual

Using the Linear Probability Model to Estimate Impacts on Binary Outcomes in Randomized Controlled Trials

John Deke

Diversion as a Work-Oriented Welfare Reform Strategy and Its Effect on Access to Medicaid: An Examination of the Experiences of Five Local Communities

Kathleen A. Maloy, LaDonna A. Pavetti, Julie Darnell and Peter Shin

Impacts of the 2010 VA PTSD Rule Change on Veterans’ Disability Compensation and Reported Cognitive Disability

Kara Contreary, Jennifer Tennant and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Young Adult SSI and SSDI Beneficiaries

Maura Bardos and Gina Livermore

Letter on Leading Practices to Advance Equity within Federal Agencies

Paul Decker

Supporting Strategic Philanthropy (About Us)

Mathematica Policy Research

Characteristics and Performance of High School Equivalency Exam Takers in New Jersey

Jacob Hartog, Lily Fesler and Brittany Tabora

Integrating Workforce and Child Care Systems and Promoting Sustainability

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

Do Charter Middle Schools Improve Students' College Outcomes? (Study Highlights)

Kate Place and Philip Gleason

Technical Methods Report: Statistical Power for Regression Discontinuity Designs in Education Evaluations

Peter Z. Schochet

Prescription Drug Costs for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Henry Ireys, Shanna Shulman and Stephanie Peterson

Facilitating Impact Evaluations: Recommendations from the LAC Reads Evaluations

Various Authors

Estimating the Administrative Costs of a National Income Maintenance Program Based on the New Jersey/Pennsylvania Negative Income Tax Experiment

Jerilyn Fair

Evaluation of the Irrigation and Water Resource Management Project in Senegal: Interim Evaluation Report

Thomas Coen, Sarah M. Hughes, Matthew Ribar, William Valletta and Kristen Velyvis

Key Challenges and Opportunities for Implementing School Located Vaccination Clinics for COVID-19 and Influenza: Roundtables with School Nurses and Immunization Programs

Erin Behrmann, Olivia Kenney and Maggie Magee

Participation Patterns in Three Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Adults with Low Incomes: Lessons for the Field

Sarah Dolfin, Joanne Lee, Robert G. Wood and Mia Monkovic

Can More Teachers Be Covered? The Accuracy, Credibility, and Precision of Value-Added Estimates with Proxy Pre-Tests

Elias Walsh, Dallas Dotter and Albert Y. Liu

2006 National Beneficiary Survey: Methodology and Descriptive Statistics

Gina Livermore, Debra Wright, Allison Roache and Eric Grau

An Evaluation of the Individual Training Account/Eligible Training Provider Demonstration: Final Interim Report

Ronald D'Amico, Alexandria Martinez, Jeffrey Salzman and Robin Wagner

Developing Home Visiting Models for Tribal Communities: Takeaways from the HomVEE Tribal Review

Andrea Mraz Esposito, Emily Sama-Miller and Elizabeth Davenport Pollock

Analysis of Medical Expenditures and Service Use of Medicaid Buy-In Participants, 2002-2005

Gilbert Gimm, Kristin L. Andrews, Jody Schimmel, Henry T. Ireys and Su Liu

Research, Evidence, and the Global Innovation Ecosystem

Audrey-Marie Moore, Edith Felix and Josh Meuth Alldredge

Can Student Test Scores Provide Useful Measures of School Principals' Performance?

Hanley Chiang, Moira McCullough, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment and Program Characteristics, 2016

Jane Ahn, Christopher Fleming, Cyrus Jadun, Sean Kirk, Rebecca Lester, Jenna Libersky, Debra Lipson, Christine O'Malley and Susan Williams

Youth Engagement: Lessons Learned

Nathan Mix, Elizabeth Clary and Cay Bradley

Preliminary Findings from the Literature Review Presented at the Technical Work Group Meeting for the Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships

Patricia Del Grosso, Lauren Akers, Andrea Mraz Esposito and Diane Paulsell

Characteristics of SCHIP Eligibility and Enrollment Data Systems: Feasibility for Supporting Research on SCHIP

Angela Merrill, Wendy Conroy and Brian Quinn

Developing Rural Health Networks Under the EACH/RPCH Program: Interim Report of the Evaluation of the Essential Access Community Hospital/Rural Primary Care Hospital Program

Suzanne Felt and George Wright

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

Lara Hulsey, Anne Gordon, Joshua Leftin, Nicholas Beyler, Allen Schirm, Claire Smither-Wulsin and Will Crumbley

Subsidized Childcare and Child Development in Colombia: Effects of Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar as a Function of Timing and Length of Exposure

Raquel Bernal and Camila Fernández

The New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Reemployment Demonstration Project: Follow-Up Report

Patricia Anderson, Walter Corson and Paul Decker

Multiple Benefit Receipt Among Individuals Receiving Food Assistance and Other Government Assistance

Andrew Gothro and Carole Trippe

How Does School Choice Affect Racial Integration?

Diana McCallum, Christina Tuttle, Jeffrey Max, Brian Gill and Philip Gleason

Improving Health Care Quality Reporting: Lessons from the California Health Care Foundation

Beth Stevens, Tim Lake and Erin Fries Taylor

Do Disadvantaged Students Get Less Effective Teaching? Key Findings from Recent Institute of Education Sciences Studies (Technical Appendix)

Jeffrey Max and Steven Glazerman

Charter School Effectiveness: Putting It in Perspective

Mark Dynarski, Tom Loveless, Philip Gleason, Brian Gill, Julie Davis Bell and Jim Peyser (Speakers)

The School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: Public Use Documentation, Volume II: Student-Level Data

Dexter Chu and John Burghardt

Evaluation of the National School Lunch Program Application/Verification Pilot Projects, Volume V: Analysis of Applications

Lara Hulsey, Philip Gleason and James Ohls

Operationalizing and Empirically Identifying Populations Trapped in Place by Climate and Environmental Stressors in Mexico

Jack DeWaard, Lori M. Hunter, Mason C. Mathews, Esteban J. Quiñones, Fernando Riosmena and Daniel H. Simon

Trends in Lung Surgery: United States 1988 to 2002

Stavros G. Memtsoudis, Melanie C. Besculides, Lambros Zellos, Namrata Patil and Selwyn O. Rogers

Medicare Advantage (MA) Benefit Design and Beneficiary Choice

Marsha Gold

Experiences of Child Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Recipients Around Their Age 18 Redetermination

David Wittenburg, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Jacqueline Kauff

Added Sugars in School Meals and the Diets of School-Age Children

Mary Kay Fox, Elizabeth C. Gearan and Colin Schwartz

Examining Effectiveness of Medical Interpreters in Emergency Departments for Spanish-Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Ann D. Bagchi, Stacy Dale, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Sky Andrecheck, Kathleen Zavotsky and Robert Eisenstein

Rising Family Income Inequality: The Importance of Sorting

Deborah Reed and Maria Cancian

The Relative Contribution of Provider and ED-Level Factors to Variation Among the Top 15 Reasons for ED Admission

Imad Khojah, Suhui Li, Qian Luo, Griffin Davis, Jessica E. Galarraga, Michael Granovsky, Ori Litvak, Samuel Davis, Robert Shesser and Jesse M. Pines

Providing Disadvantaged Workers with Skills to Succeed in the Labor Market

Sheena McConnell, Irma Perez-Johnson and Jillian Berk

Disability Data in National Surveys

Gina Livermore, Denise Whalen, Sarah Prenovitz, Raina Aggarwal and Maura Bardos

Impacts of Home Visits on Students in District of Columbia Public Schools

Allison McKie, Jeffrey Terziev and Brian Gill

Building Partnerships Between Early Head Start Grantees and Family Child Care Providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project

Patricia Del Grosso, Lauren Akers and Luke Heinkel

Using Data from the EHSRE for Research on Young Children's Development

Anne Bloomenthal and Lorraine M. McKelvey

Cancer Surgeries, 1992-2001

Eric Schone

Youth Populations that Could Benefit from Employment Interventions

Todd Honeycutt, David Wittenburg, Michael Levere and Sarah Palmer

Improving Service Delivery to Out-Of-School Youth from Minority Backgrounds: Case Study Findings from the Southern California Resource Services for Independent Living

John O’Neill, Mira Wang and Frank Martin

Defining the Role of SNPs in 2011 and 2012

James M. Verdier

Teaching Residency Programs: A Multisite Look at a New Model to Prepare Teachers for High-Need Schools

Tim Silva, Allison McKie, Virginia Knechtel, Philip Gleason and Libby Makowsky

Displayed Affective Behavior Between Intimate Partner Violence Types During Non-Violent Conflict Discussions

Daniel J. Friend, Renay P. Cleary Bradley and John M. Gottman

Characteristics That Modify the Effect of Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplementation on Child Growth

Clair Null, Kathryn G. Dewey, K. Ryan Wessells, Charles D. Arnold, Elizabeth L. Prado, Souheila Abbeddou, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Hasmot Ali, Benjamin F. Arnold, Per Ashorn, Ulla Ashorn, Sania Ashraf, Elodie Becquey, Jaden Bendabenda, Kenneth H. Brown, Parul Christian, John M. Colford, Jr., Sherlie J. L. Dulience, Lia C. H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Lotta Hallamaa, Sonja Y. Hess, Jean H. Humphrey, Lieven Huybregts, Lora L. Iannotti, Kaniz Jannat, Anna Lartey, Agnes Le Port, Jef Leroy, Stephen P. Luby, Kenneth Maleta, Susana L. Matias, Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya, Malay K. Mridha, Minyanga Nkhoma, Rina R. Paul, Harriet Okronipa, Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo, Amy J. Pickering, Andrew J. Prendergast, Marie Ruel, Saijuddin Shaikh, Ann M. Weber, Patricia Wolff, Amanda Zongrone and Christine P. Stewart

Mapping State Health Insurance Markets, 2001: Structure and Change

Deborah Chollet, Fabrice Smieliauskas and Madeleine Konig

A Positive Force: The First Two Years of Youth Fair Chance

Walter Corson, Mark Dynarski, Joshua Haimson and Linda Rosenberg

Characteristics of Preschool Special Education Services and Educators, Data Tables

Stephen Lipscomb, Megan Shoji, Jeffery Terziev, Cheri A. Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Patricia Snyder and Margaret Burchinal

Understanding Impacts of SNAP Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program at Farmers’ Markets: Findings from a 13 State RCT

Allison Karpyn, Julia Pon, Sara B. Grajeda, Rui Wang, Kathryn E. Merritt, Tara Tracy, Henry May, Ginnie Sawyer-Morris, McKenna M. Halverson and Alan Hunt

Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (EHSREP): 1996-2010 Measures Compendium

Ashley Kopack Klein, Charlene Kemmerer, Jerry West and Grace Lim

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2004

Anni Poikolainen

How Accountability Pressure on Failing Schools Affects Student Achievement

Hanley Chiang

The Green Jobs and Health Care Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Impact Study of Four Training Programs for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Workers

Karin Martinson, Julie Williams, Karen Needels, Laura Peck, Shawn Moulton, Nora Paxton, Annalisa Mastri, Elizabeth Copson, Hiren Nisar, Alison Comfort and Melanie Brown-Lyons

Marriage and Relationship Skills Education as a Way to Prepare Prisoners for Reintegration

M. Robin Dion, Timothy Silman, Debra A. Strong and Betsy Santos

Scaling Checklists: Assessing Your Level of Evidence and Readiness (SCALER)

Scott Richman, Mary Anne Anderson and Karen Needles

Primary Care Workforce Shortages and Career Recommendations from Practicing Clinicians

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

Addressing Unaddressed Needs: Helping Agencies Target Services to Children and Caregivers in Child Welfare

Erin Maher, Elizabeth Weigensberg, Matthew Stagner, Jessica Nysenbaum and Sarah LeBarron