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Using Vouchers in Government Training Programs: Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment

Sheena McConnell, Irma Perez-Johnson and Paul Decker

Electronic Health Records: Synthesizing Recent Evidence and Current Policy

Lorenzo Moreno

Pilot Mobile Health Program: Using Mobile Technology to Reach, Educate, and Connect Pregnant and Postpartum Medicaid Enrollees

So O'Neil, Keith Kranker, George Kafkas and Margo Rosenbach

Meeting New Nutrition Standards: How Much Do School Lunches Really Have to Change?

Mary Kay Crepinsek and Nora Paxton

How Do Buy-In Participants Compare with Other Medicaid Enrollees with Disabilities?

Jody Schimmel, Carol V. Irvin and Su Liu

A Changing Environment: The Affordable Care Act's Early Effects on Patient Volumes and Finances at 10 Safety Net Hospitals

Laurie Felland, Peter Cunningham and Annie Doubleday

State of Maine: Strategies for Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation

Robin Dion, Gary Hyzer and Charles Nagatoshi

Evaluation of SNAP Employment and Training Pilots: Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report to Congress

Various Authors

The Pipeline Project: Pre-Publication Independent Replications of a Single Laboratory's Research Pipeline

Martin Schweinsberg, Nikhil Madan, Michelangelo Vianello, S. Amy Sommer, Jennifer Jordan, Warren Tierney, Eli Awtrey, Luke Lei Zhu, Daniel Diermeier, Justin E. Heinze, Malavika Srinivasan, David Tannenbaum, Eliza Bivolaru, Jason Dana, Clintin P. Davis-Stober, Christilene du Plessis, Quentin F. Gronau, Andrew C. Hafenbrack, Eko Yi Liao, Alexander Ly, Maarten Marsman, Toshio Murase, Israr Qureshi, Michael Schaerer, Nico Thornley, Christina M. Tworek, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Lynn Wong, Tabitha Anderson, Christopher W. Bauman, Wendy L. Bedwell, Victoria Brescoll, Andrew Canavan, Jesse J. Chandler, Erik Cheries, Sapna Cheryan, Felix Cheung, Andrei Cimpian, Mark A. Clark, Diana Cordon, Fiery Cushman, Peter H. Ditto, Thomas Donahue, Sarah E. Frick, Monica Gamez-Djokic, Rebecca Hofstein Grady, Jesse Graham, Jun Gu, Adam Hahn, Brittany E. Hanson, Nicole J. Hartwich, Kristie Hein, Yoel Inbar, Lily Jiang, Tehlyr Kellogg, Deanna M. Kennedy, Nicole Legate, Timo P. Luoma, Heidi Maibuecher, Peter Meindl, Jennifer Miles, Alexandra Mislin, Daniel C. Molden, Matt Motyl, George Newman, Hoai Huong Ngo, Harvey Packham, Philip S. Ramsay, Jennifer L. Ray, Aaron M. Sackett, Anne-Laure Sellier, Tatiana Sokolova, Walter Sowden, Daniel Storage, Xiaomin Sun, Jay J. Van Bavel, Anthony N. Washburn, Cong Wei, Erik Wetter, Carlos T. Wilson, Sophie-Charlotte Darroux and Eric Luis Uhlmann

Supporting Mental Wellness for Program Staff and Participants: Strategies for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Leaders

Michelle K. Derr

Coalition Membership and Classification

Eileen Ellis, Beth Stevens and Tracy Tang

How to Provide and Pay for Long-Term Care of an Aging Population is an International Concern

Marsha Gold

Life in a Crime Scene: Stop, Question, and Frisk Activity in New York City Neighborhoods in the Aftermath of Homicides

Johanna Lacoe and Patrick Sharkey

Identifying Service Setting in 2017 (Brief)

Laura Nolan, Julia Baller, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

The Lovelace Case Management Demonstration Program After One Year

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

Completing the Picture: Key Features of the Social Security Disability Insurance Program

David R. Mann, David C. Stapleton and Bonnie L. O'Day

Fourth Report to Congress on the Evaluation of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration

Jennifer Schore, Deborah Peikes, Greg Peterson, Angela Gerolamo and Randall Brown

Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation for the Ananya Program (Family Health Initiative in Bihar)

Kimberly Smith, Anu Rangarajan, Evan Borkum and Lalit Dandona

Niger NECS Impact Evaluation Baseline Report

Emilie Bagby, Alyson Burnett, Anca Dumitrescu, Kristine Johnston, Cara Orfield and Matt Sloan

Advancing the Self-Sufficiency and Well-Being of At-Risk Youth: A Conceptual Framework

Robin Dion, M.C. Bradley, Andrew Gothro, Maura Bardos, Jiffy Lansing, Matthew Stagner and Amy Dworsky

Health-e-App Public Access: A New Online Path to Children's Health Care Coverage in California: An Overview of the First Year

Leslie Foster

Response to the Commission for Evidence-Based Policymaking Final Report (Presentation)

Paul Decker

Moving Toward Integrated Job Seeker Services: Collaboration Among American Job Center Programs

Vinz Koller and Anne Paprocki

HIV Clinician Workforce Study

Boyd Gilman, Ellen Bouchery, Kirsten Barrett, Samantha Stalley, Margaret Hargreaves, Cicely Thomas, Dean Miller, John McCauley, Paul Hogan, Sebastian Negrusa, Thomas Arnold and Namrata Sen

Maternal Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community-Based Support Program for Families of Children with Chronic Illnesses

Henry T. Ireys, Robin G. Chernoff, Katherine A. DeVet and Myoung S. Kim

Seeking Solutions: Enhancing Health Care Delivery for People in Connecticut with Limited English Proficiency

Ann Bagchi and Beth Stevens

Impacts of School Reforms in Washington, DC on Student Achievement

Dallas Dotter, Duncan Chaplin and Maria Bartlett

Disabled or Young? Relative Age and Special Education Diagnoses in Schools

Elizabeth Dhuey and Stephen Lipscomb

Snapshot of the 2018 Early Head Start Workforce: Who Are the Teachers and Home Visitors Serving Children and Families?

Christopher Jones, Harshini Shah and Yange Xue

Progress and Challenges in Electronic Health Record Adoption: Findings from a National Survey of Physicians

Catherine DesRoches

The Truncation-by-Death Problem: What to Do in an Experimental Evaluation When the Outcome Is Not Always Defined

Sheena McConnell, Elizabeth A. Stuart and Barbara Devaney

Evaluation of the Home Health Independence Demonstration: Barriers to a Successful Experiment Were Multifaceted and Difficult Policy Issues Remain

Valerie Cheh, Nancy Duda, Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Karen CyBulski, Amy Zambrowski and Andrew McGuirk

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 1999-2001 for All Eligible People and for the Working Poor

Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

Using Housing Vouchers to Support Youth with Child Welfare Experience at Risk of Homelessness

Kelsey Chesnut, Megan Shoji, Morgan Woods, Lanae Davis, Denise McHugh, Trevor Williams, Luther Owens, Kelli Puryear and Jessica Trombetta

Designing Subsidized Health Coverage Programs to Attract Enrollment: A Review of the Literature and a Synthesis of Stakeholder Views

Lynn Quincy, Patricia Collins, Kristin Andrews and Christal Stone

Using a Systems Thinking Approach to Address the Opioid Epidemic in Georgia

B. Manteuffel, L. Alderman, J. Branscomb and K. Minyard

Evaluation of the Ticket to Work Program: Implementation Experience During the Second Two Years of Operations (2003-2004)

Craig Thornton, Thomas Fraker, Gina Livermore, David Stapleton, Bonnie O'Day, Tim Silva, Emily Sama Martin, John Kregel and Debra Wright

Reducing Health Care Disparities: Where Are We Now?

Marsha Gold

Supporting Employers Using the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) Model

Katie Bodenlos

Randomized Controlled Trial of Healthy Harlem's Get Fit Program: An After-School Intervention for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in the Harlem Children's Zone

James Mabli, Martha Bleeker, Mary Kay Fox, Betina Jean-Louis and Marlene Fox

Is Your Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Effective? Considerations for Measuring Performance

Angela Rachidi

The Effect of a Fresh Produce Incentive Paired with Cooking and Nutrition Education on Healthy Eating in Low-Income Households: A Pilot Study

Angela R. Fertig, Xuyang Tang and Heather M. Dahlen

Section 1115 Alternative Medicaid Expansions: Summative Evaluation Report

Kara Contreary, Katharine Bradley, Matthew Niedzwiecki, Kristin Maurer, Sandra Chao, Brenda Natzke and Maggie Samra

What can We Learn from State Disability Insurance Programs?

Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Measuring School and Teacher Value Added for IMPACT and TEAM in DC Public Schools

Eric Isenberg and Heinrich Hock

Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast: Matching Curricula to Student Skill Levels

Lant Pritchett and Amanda Beatty

Focus on Quality: Communication in the Health Care Encounter

Ann Bagchi, Raquel af Ursin and Alicia Leonard

The Early Reading and Mathematics Achievement of Children Who Repeated Kindergarten or Who Began School a Year Late

Lizabeth M. Malone, Jerry West, Kristin Denton Flanagan and Jennifer Park

WIC Food Packages Policy Options Study

Nancy Cole, Jessica Jacobson, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Mary Kay Fox

Internet Initial Claims Evaluation

Robert Kenyon, Karen Needels, Todd Anderson, James Gerding and Michelle VanNoy

Technical Expert Panel on Electronic Health Record Data Quality Best Practices for Increased Scientific Acceptability

Cindy Cullen and Jamie Lehner

The Critical Role of Web Accessibility in Health Information Access, Understanding, and Use

Amanda Krupa, Jill B. Roark and Kirsten Barrett

Leading the Way: Maine's Initial Experience in Expanding Coverage Through Dirigo Health Reforms

Debra J. Lipson, James M. Verdier, Lynn Quincy, Robert Hurley, Elizabeth Seif, Shanna Shulman and Matt Sloan

The Role of State Faith Community Liaisons in Charitable Choice Implementation: Practice Models from the States

Pamela Winston and Ann E. Person

Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs): Frequently Asked Questions

Mathematica Policy Research

Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 30-Month Impact Findings on the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs

Kenneth Fortson, Dana Rotz, Paul Burkander, Annalisa Mastri, Peter Schochet, Linda Rosenberg, Sheena McConnell and Ronald D'Amico

After-Hours Access to Primary Care Practices Linked with Lower Emergency Department Use and Less Unmet Medical Need

Ann S. O'Malley

Study to Examine UI Eligibility Among Former TANF Recipients: Evidence from New Jersey

Anu Rangarajan, Carol Razafindrakoto and Walter Corson

Nutrient Intakes of Infants and Toddlers

Barbara Devaney, Paula Zeigler, Susan Pac, Vatsala Karwe and Susan I. Barr

The Atlantic Philanthropies' Children and Youth Programme in Ireland and Northern Ireland: 2011 Programme Evaluation Findings

Diane Paulsell and Cassandra Pickens Jewell

Transformative Leadership

Randall Blair and Clemencia Cosentino

Charter School Authorizers and Student Achievement (Working Paper)

Ron Zimmer, Brian Gill and Kaitlin Obenauf

Medicare Advantage 2010 Data Spotlight: Benefits and Cost-Sharing

Marsha Gold, Maria Hudson, Gretchen Jacobson and Tricia Neuman

The Volume of Encounter Claim Records from Comprehensive Managed Care Organizations in 2017 (Brief)

Julia Baller, Andres Arguello, Mary Allison Geibel, Brenda Natzke, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

The Medicaid Analytic eXtract 2008 Chartbook

Rosemary Borck, Allison Hedley Dodd, Ashley Zlatinov, Shinu Verghese, Rosalie Malsberger and Cara Petroski

Sample Attrition in Teen Pregnancy Prevention Impact Evaluations

Russell Cole and Seth Chizeck

Increasing Children's Coverage and Access: A Decade of SCHIP Lessons

Margo Rosenbach

The Availability and Usability of Behavioral Health Organization Encounter Data in MAX 2009

Jessica Nysenbaum, Ellen Bouchery and Rosalie Malsberger

Children's Health Insurance Program: An Evaluation 1997-2010

Sheila Hoag, Mary Harrington, Cara Orfield, Victoria Peebles, Kimberly Smith, Adam Swinburn, Matthew Hodges, Kenneth Finegold, Sean Orzol and Wilma Robinson

Exploratory Study of Decision-Making in Low-Income Couples

M. Robin Dion, Jean Knab, Debra Wright, Renay Cleary Bradley and John M. Gottman

Providing Health Benefits and Work-Related Services to Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries: Six-Month Results from the Accelerated Benefits Demonstration

David Wittenburg, Anne Warren, Deborah Peikes and Stephen Freedman

Final Impacts of the Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy Program

Dana Rotz, Dara Lee Luca, Brian Goesling, Elizabeth Cook, Kelly Murphy and Jack Stevens

Leveraging Medicaid in a Multi-Payer Medical Home Program: Spotlight on Rhode Island's Chronic Care Sustainability Initiative

Julia Paradise, Marsha Gold and Winnie Wang

Measuring Trends in Mental Health Care Disparities, 2000-2004

Benjamin L. Cook, Thomas McGuire and Jeanne Miranda

Independent Evaluation of the Ninth Scope of Work, QIO Program: Volume I, Findings

Arnold Chen, Andrew Clarkwest, Sarah Croake, Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Myles Maxfield, Lauren Smith, Suzanne Witmer, Jelena Zurovac, Jennifer Lucado, Lauren McGivern, Kathy Paez and Claudia Schur

Evaluation of the Medicare Care Choices Model: Annual Report 4

Keith Kranker, Matthew Niedzwiecki, R. Vincent Pohl, Arnold Chen, Marlena Luhr, Lauren Vollmer Forrow and Valerie Cheh

Maternal Infant-Feeding Style During Infancy and Children's Adiposity at 5 Years of Age

Hillary L. Burdette, Robert C. Whitaker, Waynitra C. Hall and Stephen R. Daniels

IInvited Commentary: Moving Toward Better Instructional Practice Data

Daniel P. Mayer

Effects of the Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Law

Margo Rosenbach, Tim Lake, Cheryl Young, Wendy Conroy, Brian Quinn, Julie Ingels, Brenda Cox, Anne Peterson and Lindsay Crozier

Explaining Enrollment Trends and Participant Characteristics of the Medicaid Buy-In Program, 2002-2003

Justin S. White, William E. Black and Henry T. Ireys

Supporting Replication and Scale-Up of Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs: Assessing the Implementation Knowledge Base

Diane Paulsell, Patricia Del Grosso and Lauren Supplee

Do Older SSDI Applicants Denied Benefits on the Basis of their Work Capacity Return to Work After Denial?

Jody Schimmel Hyde and April Yanuyan Wu

Using Alternative Student Growth Measures for Evaluating Teacher Performance: What the Literature Says (Executive Summary)

Brian Gill, Julie Bruch and Kevin Booker

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: Texas Case Study

Cara Orfield and Jung Y. Kim

Final Impacts of Teen PEP (Teen Prevention Education Program) in New Jersey and North Carolina High Schools

Dana Rotz, Brian Goesling, Molly Crofton, Jennifer Manlove and Kate Welti

KidsWell: Securing Coverage for Children by Advocating for the ACA

Sheila Hoag, Debra Lipson, Michaella Morzuch and Victoria Peebles

Developing Measures of the Implementation and Cost of High-Quality Early Care and Education

Gretchen Kirby, Pia Caronongan, Andrew Burwick, Shannon Monahan, Dmitriy Poznyak, Theresa Schulte, Julia Lyskawa and Annalee Kelly

Measuring Time Clinicians Spend Using EHRs in the Inpatient Setting: A National, Mixed-Methods Study

Genna Cohen, Jessica Boi, Christian Johnson, Llew Brown and Vaishali Patel

Employment Opportunity Pilot Project: Analysis of Program Impacts

Randall Brown, John Burghardt, Edward Cavin, David Long, Charles Mallar, Rebecca Maynard, Charles Metcalf, Craig Thornton and Christine Whitebread

The Reliability of Graduate Medical Education Quality of Care Clinical Performance Measures

Jung G. Kim, Hector P. Rodriguez, Eric S. Holmboe, Kathryn M. McDonald, Lindsay Mazotti, Diane Rittenhouse, Stephen M. Shortell and Michael H. Kanter

Is Regression Adjustment Supported by the Neyman Model for Causal Inference? (Presentation)

Peter Z. Schochet

Benefits of and Barriers to Large Medical Group Practice in the United States

Lawrence P. Casalino, Kelly Devers, Timothy K. Lake, Marie C. Reed and Jeffrey Stoddard

Modernizing the Gateway to Disability Benefits (In Focus Brief)

David C. Stapleton, Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David R. Mann

Characteristics of Trainees and Training Programs in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program Under the 2002 Amendments

Jillian Berk

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Final Evaluation Report, Volume 1

Daniel Gubits, David Stapleton, Stephen Bell, Michelle Wood, Denise Hoffman, Sarah Croake, David R. Mann, Judy Geyer, David Greenberg, Austin Nichols, Andrew McGuirk, Meg Carroll, Utsav Kattel and David Judkins

Effectiveness of Alternative Ways of Implementing Care Management Components in Medicare D-SNPs: The Brand New Day Study

Jelena Zurovac, Randy Brown, Bob Schmitz and Richard Chapman

New Hospital Information Technology: Is It Helping to Improve Quality?

Suzanne Felt-Lisk

Programs Conferring Categorical Eligibility for SNAP: State Policies and the Number and Characteristics of Households Affected

Elizabeth Laird and Carole Trippe

Evaluating a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for At-Risk Youth in Alternative Schools

Jean Knab, Robert G. Wood, Joanne Lee and Lauren Murphy

Differences in Use of Health Services Between White and African American Children Enrolled in Medicaid in North Carolina

Paul A. Buescher, Stephanie J. Horton, Barbara L. Devaney, Sarah J. Roholt, Alice J. Lenihan, J. Timothy Whitmire and Jonathan B. Kotch