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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

Assessment of the Initial Phase of the Train the Trainer Project Using the Helping You Take Care of Yourself Curriculum

Lisa Trebino, Kerianne Hourihan and Melanie Besculides

An Evaluation of SOAR: Implementation and Outcomes of an Effort to Improve Access to SSI and SSDI (Journal Article)

Jacqueline F. Kauff, Elizabeth Clary, Kristin Sue Lupfer and Pamela J. Fischer

Recognizing and Conducting Opportunistic Experiments in Education: A Guide for Policymakers and Researchers

Alexandra Resch, Jillian Berk and Lauren Akers

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

The Current State of Behavioral Health Quality Measures: Where Are the Gaps?

Milesh M. Patel, Jonathan D. Brown, Sarah Croake, Rita Lewis, Junqing Liu, Lisa Patton, D. E. B. Potter and Sarah Hudson Scholle

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

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

Medicare Advantage in 2007: What Congress Intended?

Marsha Gold

The “Battle†of Managing Language Barriers in Health Care

Emma M. Steinberg, Doris Valenzuela-Araujo, Joseph S. Zickafoose, Edith Kieffer and Lisa Ross DeCamp

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Parent-Reported Diagnosis of ADHD: National Survey of Children’s Health (2003, 2007, and 2011)

Kevin P. Collins and Sean D. Cleary

Behavioral Interventions to Promote Job Retention after Injury or Illness

Kara Contreary and Irma Perez-Johnson

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

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

How Accountability Pressure on Failing Schools Affects Student Achievement

Hanley Chiang

Federal Expenditures for Working-Age People with Disabilities in Fiscal Year 2008 (Presentation)

Gina Livermore, Meghan O'Toole and David Stapleton

Effectiveness of Alternative Ways of Implementing Care Coordination Components in Medicare D-SNPs

Jelena Zurovac, Randy Brown and Bob Schmitz

State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Case Studies: Summary of Innovative Programs Serving People with Low Income

Katie Eddins, Linda Rosenberg and Sharika Rakibullah

Effectively Using QRIS Data and Research to Inform Program Design and Management: Sharing New Tools and State Experiences

Kimberly Boller (Moderator), Shannon Rudisill, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Melanie Brizzi, Kathryn Tout and Ivelisse Martinez-Beck (Speakers)

Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Boosted Participation in Medicare Alternative Payment Models

Jelena Zurovac, Michael Barna, Angela Merrill, Joseph Zickafoose, Sue Felt-Lisk, Lauren Vollmer Forrow, Karen Frederick Gallegos, Damian Everhart and Robert Flemming

Simulated Effects of Changes to State and Federal Asset Eligibility Policies for the Food Stamp Program

Karen Cunnyngham and James Ohls

Diversity of Methods: Assessment of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Multiplier Effect

Janice Ballou, Brian Roff and Matthew Anderson

H-PACT: A Descriptive Study of Responsible Fatherhood Programs Serving Hispanic Men

Natasha Cabrera, Luis Torres, Robin Dion and Scott Baumgartner

Coordinating Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Stephanie Peterson, Shanna Shulman and Henry Ireys

In What Occupations did SSDI Applicants Work? New Statistics and their Implications for Policy

April Yanyuan Wu

Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care: A Review and Implications for Payment Reform

Kara Zivin, Ann O'Malley, JudyAnn Bigby, Jonathan Brown and Eugene Rich

Societal Costs of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in California

Dara Lee Luca, Nellie Garlow, Colleen Staatz, Caroline Margiotta and Kara Zivin

QRS Profile: Minnesota Parent Aware

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Early Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After One Year: Executive Summary

Jeffrey Max, Jill Constantine, Alison Wellington, Kristin Hallgren, Steven Glazerman, Hanley Chiang and Cecilia Speroni

The HCBS Taxonomy: A New Language for Classifying Home- and Community-Based Services

Victoria Peebles and Alex Bohl

Community Connector: The AHRQ Social Determinants of Health Data Viz Challenge Winner

Kelsey Skvoretz, Alex Bohl and Margaret Luo

Evaluation of the Dental Transformation Initiative: Interim Evaluation Report

Mary Harrington, Laurie Felland, Victoria Peebles, Luke Horner, Sean Orzol, Jessica Laird and Martha Kovac

Big Data in Survey Research: AAPOR Task Force Report

Lilli Japec, Frauke Kreuter, Marcus Berg, Paul Biemer, Paul Decker, Cliff Lampe, Julia Lane, Cathy O’Neil and Abe Usher

Borrowing Constraints, College Enrollment, and Delayed Entry

Matthew T. Johnson

Medicare Advantage 2010 Data Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums

Marsha Gold, Dawn Phelps, Tricia Neuman and Gretchen Jacobson

Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work: Key Facts, Critical Information Gaps, and Current Practices and Proposals

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Steve Bruns, Kara Contreary and David Stapleton

Effects of Single and Integrated Water, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutrition Interventions on Child Soil-Transmitted Helminth and Giardia Infections: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Kenya

Amy J. Pickering, Sammy M. Njenga, Lauren Steinbaum, Jenna Swarthout, Audrie Lin, Benjamin F. Arnold, Christine P. Stewart, Holly N. Dentz, MaryAnne Mureithi, Benard Chieng, Marlene Wolfe, Ryan Mahoney, Jimmy Kihara, Kendra Byrd, Gouthami Rao, Theodora Meerkerk, Priscah Cheruiyot, Marina Papaiakovou, Nils Pilotte, Steven A. Williams, John M. Colford, Jr. and Clair Null

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2018 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel

Kathryn Cronquist, Sarah Lauffer, Chrystine Tadler and Sarah Hong

Making the Most of Opportunities to Learn What Works: A School District's Guide

Lauren Akers, Alexandra Resch and Jillian Berk

An Economic Evaluation of Home Versus Laboratory-Based Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Richard D. Kim, Vishesh K. Kapur, Julie Redline-Bruch, Michael Rueschman, Dennis H. Auckley, Ruth M. Benca, Nancy R. Foldvary-Schafer, Conrad Iber, Phyllis C. Zee, Carol L. Rosen, Susan Redline and Scott D. Ramsey

Developing Quality Measures for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Schozophrenia

Sam Simon, Thomas Croghan, Robert C. Saunders, Sarah Hudson Scholle, Milesh M. Patel and Jeremy Gottlich

Poverty and Hardship Among Working-Age People with Disabilities

Gina Livermore

Supporting Statewide Implementation of Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs: Findings from Four PREP Grantees

Patricia Del Grosso, Theresa Schulte, Susan Zief, Lauren Murphy and Jessica Ziegler

Fact Sheet: 19 and Me for Workforce Leaders

Andrew Hurwitz

Impact of Family Planning and Business Trainings on Private-Sector Health Care Providers in Nigeria

Jorge Ugaz, Anthony Leegwater, Minki Chatterji, Doug Johnson, Sikiru Baruwa, Modupe Toriola and Cynthia Kinnan

Patients’ and Caregivers’ Experiences with the Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Practice Demonstration

Ellen K. Wilson, Noëlle Richa Siegfried and Asta V. Sorensen

Carolyn Rovee-Collier's Legacy to Applied Psychology, Intervention, and Public Policy

Jeffrey Fagen, Phyllis Ohr and Kimberly Boller

Supporting Effective Data Use (In Focus Brief)

Various Authors

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

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

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold, Jessica Mittler and Beth Stevens

Small Businesses' Decisions to Offer Health Insurance to Employees

Catherine McLaughlin and Adam Swinburn

Leading the Way: Characteristics and Early Experiences of Selected Early Head Start Programs. Volume II: Program Profiles

Ellen Eliason Kisker, John M. Love, Helen Raikes, Kimberly Boller, Diane Paulsell, Linda Rosenberg, Kathleen Coolahan and Lisa J. Berlin

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects (Journal Article)

Thomas Fraker and Anu Rangarajan

Investigator-Initiated Health Services Research Funded by AHRQ: Results from a 2008 Survey of Principal Investigators on Goals, Dissemination Strategies, and Impacts

Kate Stewart, Tim Lake and Marsha Gold

Toddlers in Early Head Start: A Portrait of 2-Year-Olds, Their Families, and the Programs Serving Them. Volume I: Age 2 Report

Cheri A. Vogel, Pia Caronongan, Jaime Thomas, Eileen Bandel, Yange Xue, Juliette Henke, Nikki Aikens, Kimberly Boller and Lauren Murphy

Infant Serum and Maternal Milk Vitamin B-12 Are Positively Correlated in Kenyan Infant-Mother Dyads at 1–6 Months Postpartum, Irrespective of Infant Feeding Practice

Anne M. Williams, Christine P. Stewart, Setareh Shahab-Ferdows, Daniela Hampel, Marion Kiprotich, Beryl Achando, Audrie Lin, Clair A. Null, Lindsay H. Allen and Caroline J. Chantry

Infusing Academics into Career and Technical Education

Joshua Haimson, James R. Stone, Iii and Donna Pearson

Medicaid Beneficiaries Who Use Long-Term Services and Supports: 2019

Min-Young Kim, Edward Weizenegger and Andrea Wysocki

Supporting Advocacy to Achieve Universal Children's Health Coverage: Final Report on the KidsWell Campaign

Victoria Peebles, Sheila Hoag, Michaella Morzuch, Linda Barterian and Debra Lipson

Inventory of State-Level Medicaid Policies, Programs, and Initiatives to Improve Maternity Care and Outcomes

Mathematica

Stroke, 1992-2001 (Issue Brief)

Christina Park (anasys and Inc.) Mathematica Policy Research

Connecting the Dots: Provider Networks of Youth Receiving Supplemental Security Income

Todd Honeycutt and David Wittenburg

The Role of Home and Community-Based Services in Meeting the Health Care Needs of People with AIDS

Jennifer Schore, Mary Harrington and Stephen Crystal

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

Kaylyn Swankoski, Ann O'Malley, Ha Tu, Dana Petersen, Pragya Singh, Kristin Geonnotti, Rosalind Keith, Stacy Dale, Nikkilyn Morrison, Deborah Peikes, Nancy McCall, Nancy Duda, Amanda Markovitz, Shannon Heitkamp, Katie Lee-Morrison, Victoria Peebles, Rumin Sarwar, Eunhae Shin, Ning Fu, Jessica Laird, Sean Orzol, Arkadipta Ghosh, Genna Cohen, Jasmine Little, Katharine Bradley, Mario Gruszczynski, Tim Lake, Kristie Liao, Melanie Au, Margaret Coit, Jan Genevro, Stefanie Pietras, Asta Sorensen, Laura Hanson, Laurie Felland, Dana Jean-Baptiste, Brianna Sullivan, Sheila Hoag, Arnold Chen, Lianlian Lei, Eric Dehus, Marlena Luhr and Randall Brown

Did You Get Your Shots? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Reminders (Journal Article)

Matias Busso, Julian Cristia and Sarah Humpage

Measurement Models for Behavioral Frequencies: A Comparison Between Numerically and Vaguely Quantified Reports

Jamie Lynn Marincic

Baltimore Health Corps Initiative: A Transitional Jobs Program to Improve Public Health and Employment Outcomes During COVID-19

Michelle Derr, Delara Aharpour, Shaun Stevenson, MacKenzie Garvin, Yvette Clark, Craig Lewis, Rachel Brash, John Ford, Kristi France, Che Evans and Tierra Mason

The Teacher-Student Data Link Project: Three Lasting Accomplishments

Cassie Pickens Jewell, Kristin Hallgren and Sarah Wissel

The Experiences of SCHIP Enrollees and Disenrollees in 10 States: Findings from the Congressionally Mandated SCHIP Evaluation

Genevieve Kenney, Christopher Trenholm, Lisa Dubay, Myoung Kim, Lorenzo Moreno, Jamie Rubenstein, Anna Sommers, Stephen Zuckerman, William Black, Fredric Blavin and Grace Ko

The National School Lunch Program Direct Certification Improvement Study: Main Report

Quinn Moore, Andrew Gothro, Kevin Conway and Brandon Kyler

CKF Coalitions Propel Policy and Procedural Changes (Issue Brief)

Sheila Hoag and Judith Wooldridge

Report on Survey Methods for the Community Tracking Study's 1998-1999 Round Two Household Survey (Appendices)

Richard Strouse, Barbara Carlson and John Hall

STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees

Sarah Cohodes, Helen Ho and Silvia C. Robles

Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 1999 to 2002

Karen Cunnyngham

Scaling the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) intervention

Mary Anne Anderson, Katie Eddins, Karen Needels and Scott Richman

Development of the Medicaid Analytic Extract Provider Characteristics (MAXPC) File: Final Implementation Report, 2006

Deo S. Bencio, Julie Sykes and Mei-ling Mason

Evaluation of School Absenteeism Data for Early Outbreak Detection: New York City, 2001-2002

Melanie Besculides, R. Heffernan, F. Mostashari and D. Weiss

Informal Child Care in Detroit

Jaime Thomas, Mynti Hossain, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Nazihah Siddiqui, Amaka Osuoha and Patrick Balke

Medicare Advantage Star Ratings

Debra Lipson and Erin Weir-Lakhmani

Access to Effective Teaching for Disadvantaged Students (Interim Report)

Eric Isenberg, Jeffrey Max, Philip Gleason, Liz Potamites, Robert Santillano, Heinrich Hock and Michael Hansen

Connecting the Dots: Provider Networks of Youth Receiving Supplemental Security (Technical Appendix)

Todd Honeycutt and David Wittenburg

The Child-Caregiver Observation System Instructor's Manual

Kimberly Boller and Susan Sprachman

Evaluation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration: Baseline Instrument

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Student Characteristics and Outcomes in Alternative and Neighborhood High Schools in Philadelphia

Hanley Chiang and Brian Gill

Some Issues Arising in the Use of Sampling in the Legal Setting

Joseph L. Gastwirth and Michael Sinclair

Resources for Connecting TANF Recipients and Other Low-Income Families to Good Jobs

Kristen Joyce, Michelle Derr, Annalisa Mastri, Steve Bates, Alix Gould-Werth, Carrie Clowney and Lily Roberts

Case Study of Arkansas: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Jenna Walls, Bridget Lavin, Kathy Gifford and Christopher Trenholm

Managing Customers' Training Choices: Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment

Sheena McConnell, Elizabeth Stuart, Kenneth Fortson, Paul Decker, Irma Perez-Johnson, Barbara Harris and Jeffrey Salzman

Preventing Rapid Repeat Teen Pregnancy with Motivational Interviewing and Contraceptive Access: Implementing Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy (T.O.P.P.)

Alicia Meckstroth and Amanda Berger

Financial Toll of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Among 2017 Births in the United States

Dara Lee Luca, Caroline Margiotta, Colleen Staatz, Eleanor Garlow, Anna Christensen and Kara Zivin

Case Study of Father Engagement in Healthy Start Programs: Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition Fatherhood PRIDE

Danielle DeLisle, Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

Adoption and Effectiveness of De-Escalated Radiation and Endocrine Therapy Strategies for Older Women with Low-Risk Breast Cancer

Katherine E. Reeder-Hayes, Stephanie B. Wheeler, Anne Marie Meyer, Christopher D. Baggett, Xi Zhou, Ke Meng, Jason Rotter and Timothy Zagar

Development of a Language Routing Protocol to Determine Bilingual Spanish Speaking Children's Language of Assessment

Kathy Sonnenfeld, Margaret Caspe, Nikki Aikens, Susan Sprachman, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Michael López

Methods for Accounting for Co-Teaching in Value-Added Models

Heinrich Hock and Eric Isenberg

Rwanda Threshold Program Evaluation

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Jacqueline Berman, Ali Protik, Anu Rangarajan, Matt Sloan and Lindsay Wood

Uses and Limitations of Claims-Based Performance Feedback Reports: Lessons from the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

Margaret Gerteis, Deborah Peikes, Arkadipta Ghosh, Lori Timmins, Ann S. O'Malley, Michael Barna, Erin F. Taylor, Timothy J. Day, Kaylyn Swankoski, Perry W. Payne, Jr. and Randall Brown

A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Home-Delivered Food Box on Children’s Diet Quality in the Chickasaw Nation Packed Promise Project

Charlotte Cabili, Ronette Briefel, Sarah Forrestal, Vivian Gabor and Gregory Chojnacki

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

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

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Volume VII: Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services

Georges Vernex, Scott Naftel, Karen Ross, Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Christopher Beighley and Brian Gill

Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: Focus on 1994 to 1998

Laura Castner

Reaching Those in Need: State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2010

Karen E. Cunnyngham

The Logic Model: The Foundation to Implement, Study, and Refine Patient-Centered Medical Home Models (Issue Brief)

Dana Petersen, Erin Fries Taylor and Deborah Peikes