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Understanding the Effectiveness of Programs for Expectant and Parenting Teens (Fact Sheet)

Susan Zief

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

Jillian Berk

An Assessment of Consultative Examination (CE) Processes, Content, and Quality: Findings from the CE Review Data

David Wittenburg, Gordon Steinagle, Sloane Frost and Ron Fine

Training Enrollment Broker Call Center Staff: Tips for States Implementing Capitated Financial Alignment Demonstrations

Julie Stone and Danielle Chelminsky

Research to Inform Policy: Contributions of the Mathematica Center for Studying Disability Policy

Gina A. Livermore, Jody Schimmel Hyde, Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Todd Honeycutt and David C. Stapleton

Evaluation of Descriptive Analyses of Survey Variances and Confidence Interval Widths

D.S. Jang and J.L. Eltinge

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

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

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

Leveraging the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for Disability Research

Jack Gettens, Alexis D. Henry and Christine Clifford

New Unmarried Dads and Father Involvement: Evidence from the Building Strong Families Evaluation

Robert G. Wood and Reginald Covington

Assisting TANF Recipients Living with Disabilities to Obtain and Maintain Employment

Jacqueline Kauff

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

Elizabeth Laird and Carole Trippe

Research Design for the Evaluation of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration

Randall Brown, Sherry Aliotta, Nancy Archibald, Arnold Chen, Deborah Peikes and Jennifer Schore

The Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and Recommendations for the National Study

Roberto Agodini, Mark Dynarski, Margaret Honey and Douglas Levin

Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia

Menno Pradhan, Daniel Suryadarma, Amanda Beatty, Maisy Wong, Arya Gaduh, Armida Alisjahbana and Rima Artha

Gender Gaps in Time Use and Earnings: What's Norms Got to Do With It?

Nan L. Maxwell and Nathan Wozny

Assessing the Risk of Reporting Bias in a RCT for Adolescent Mothers

Jack Stevens, Dana Rotz and Brian Goesling

State Medicaid Managed Care Evaluations and Reports: Themes, Variations, and Lessons

James M. Verdier and Robert E. Hurley

Quality Measures for Mental Health and Substance Use: Gaps, Opportunities, and Challenges

Harold Alan Pincus, Sarah Hudson Scholle, Brigitta Spaeth-Rublee, Kimberly A. Hepner and Jonathan Brown

The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Marital Dissolution

Lucia Nixon

Providing Services to Veterans Through the Public Workforce System: Descriptive Findings from the WIA Gold Standard Evaluation, Volume I

Linda Rosenberg, Mark Strayer, Stephanie Boraas, Brittany English and Deanna Khemani

To What Extent is the Unemployment Insurance System a Safety Net for Former TANF Recipients? Evidence from New Jersey

Anu Rangarajan, Carol Razafindrakoto and Walter Corson

Spotlight on West Virginia

Mynti Hossain, Grace Anglin, Embry Howell, Ashley Palmer, Vanessa Forsberg and Elena Zarabozo

Past as Prologue: How Comparative Effectiveness Research Became Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

Eugene C. Rich

Advancing Opportunities for Employment of Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum

Rachel Bleiweiss-Sande, Andrew Krantz and Ankita Patnaik

Understanding the Effect of the Opioid Epidemic on Child Maltreatment

Joseph Mienko and Rebecca Rebbe

Using Data to Drive State Improvement in Enrollment and Retention Performance

Christopher Trenholm, Mary Harrington, Andrew Snyder and Alice M. Weiss

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2009

Joshua Leftin, Andrew Gothro and Esa Eslami

The Value of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Decision Making: Lessons Learned

Danielle Whicher and Thomas Rapp

Assessing the Accuracy of Three National Physician Sampling Frames

Catherine M. DesRoches and Kirsten Barrett

The Educational and Behavioral Impacts of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Charter School (Journal Article)

Matthew T. Johnson, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Scott B. Richman, Alicia Demers, Claudia Gentile and Eric Lundquist

Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE) Evaluation Design Report

Thomas Fraker, Erik Carter, Todd Honeycutt, Jacqueline Kauff, Gina Livermore and Arif Mamun

Building the Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency of the Disadvantaged: The Potential of Social Enterprises

Nan L. Maxwell and Dana Rotz

State Monitoring and Oversight of Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Care Programs

Michelle Herman Soper, Jenna Libersky and Rudy Villarreal

What’s the Secret Ingredient? Searching for Policies and Practices That Make Charter Schools Successful

Philip M. Gleason

Landscape of Health Systems in the United States

Michael F. Furukawa, Rachel M. Machta, Kirsten A. Barrett, David J. Jones, Stephen M. Shortell, Dennis P. Scanlon, Valerie A. Lewis, A. James O’Malley, Ellen R. Meara and Eugene C. Rich

The WASH Benefits and SHINE Trials: Interpretation of WASH Intervention Effects on Linear Growth and Diarrhoea

Amy J. Pickering, Clair Null, Peter J. Winch, Goldberg Mangwadu, Benjamin F. Arnold, Andrew J. Prendergast, Sammy M. Njenga, Mahbubur Rahman, Robert Ntozini, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Christine P. Stewart, Tarique M. N. Huda, Lawrence H. Moulton, John M. Colford, Jr., Stephen P. Luby and Jean H. Humphrey

Promoting Readiness of Minors is SSI (PROMISE) Evaluation: Interim Services and Impact Report

Arif Mamun, Ankita Patnaik, Michael Levere, Gina Livermore, Todd Honeycutt, Jacqueline Kauff, Karen Katz, AnnaMaria McCutcheon, Joseph Mastrianni and Brittney Gionfriddo

Association Between Practice Participation in a Pediatric-Focused Medical Home Learning Collaborative and Reduction of Preventable Emergency Department Visits by Publicly-Insured Children in Massachusetts

Paul B. Kirby, Anna Christensen, Louise Bannister and Valerie Konar

Effective Case Management: Key Elements and Practices from the Field

Elizabeth Laird and Pamela Holcomb

The Prevalence of Obesity Among Recent Applicants to Federal Disability Programs

Jody Schimmel Hyde

Diet Quality of American School Children by National School Lunch Program Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2010

Elizabeth Condon, Susan Drilea, Carolyn Lichtenstein, James Mabli, Emily Madden and Katherine Niland

Analysis of Data on Youth with Child Welfare Involvement at Risk of Homelessness (Issue Brief)

Christine Ross and Rebekah Selekman

Policy Considerations for Child SSI Program

David Wittenburg

The Impact of a Computer-Based Adult Literacy Program on Literacy and Numeracy: Evidence from India

Ashwini Deshpande, Alain Desrochers, Christopher Ksoll and Abu Shonchoy

Transitions and Vocational Rehabilitation Success: Tracking Outcomes for Different Types of Youth

Todd Honeycutt, Frank Martin and David Wittenburg

Dietary Intakes of Students

Barbara L. Devaney, Anne Gordon and John Burghardt

Teaching Self-Sufficiency Through Home Visitation and Life Skills Education

Alicia Meckstroth, Andrew Burwick, Quinn Moore and Michael Ponza

Understanding the Probability of a Disability Resulting from Work-Related Injuries

Nan L. Maxwell and Nathan Wozny

Integrating Health Care for High-Need Medicaid Beneficiaries with Serious Mental Illness and Chronic Physical Health Conditions at Managed Care, Provider, and Consumer Levels

Jung Y. Kim, Tricia Collins Higgins, Dominick Esposito and Allison Hamblin

The Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P) Research Agenda

Alice A. Kuo, Emily Hotez, Kashia A. Rosenau, Candace Gragnani, Priyanka Fernandes, Madeline Haley, Dawn Rudolph, Lisa A. Croen, Maria L. Massolo, Laura Graham Holmes, Paul Shattuck, Lindsay Shea, Rujuta Wilson, Julian A. Martinez-Agosto, Heather M. Brown, Patrick S.R. Dwyer, Dena L. Gassner, Steven K. Kapp, Ari Ne'eman, Jacalyn G. Ryan, Waisman Tc, Zachary J. Williams, Jessica N. DiBari, Dana M. Foney, Lauren R. Ramos and Michael D. Kogan

Medicare Advantage 2011 Data Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

Prospects for Rebuilding Primary Care Using the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Bruce E. Landon, James M. Gill, Richard C. Antonelli and Eugene C. Rich

Data Tables for FACES 2006: A Year in Head Start Report

Lara Hulsey, Nikki Aikens, Yange Xue, Louisa Tarullo and Jerry West

How Does School Choice Affect Student Achievement in Traditional Public Schools?

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

Welfare Leavers and Medicaid Dynamics: Five States in 1995

Marilyn Ellwood and Carol Irvin

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Data Quality Study Methodology Report: Supplemental Tables

Kenneth W. Jackson, Scott Peecksen, Donsig Jang and Amang Sukasih

Beneficiary Engagement Strategies in Medicaid Demonstrations

Vivian L.H. Byrd, Maggie Colby and Katharine Bradley

The Impact of Niche Hospitals on General Hospitals: A Review of the Literature

Cheryl Fahlman and Deborah Chollet

Evaluation of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP): Process and Outcomes Study

Deborah Kogan, Hannah Betesh, Marian Negoita, Jeffrey Salzman, Laura Paulen, Haydee Cuza, Liz Potamites, Jillian Berk, Carrie Wolfson and Patty Cloud

Mental Health and Medicaid

Jim Verdier

Market Signals: How Do DC Parents Rank Schools, and What Does It Mean for Policy?

Steven Glazerman and Dallas Dotter

Understanding Adult Subpopulations Served by Workforce Investment Programs

Nan Maxwell, Priyanka Anand and Caroline Massad Francis

Impacts of a Summer Learning Program: A Random Assignment Study of Building Educated Leaders for Life BELL

Duncan Chaplin and Jeffrey Capizzano

Both Sides Now: The Story of School Desegregations Graduates

Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Anita Tijerina Revilla and Awo Korantemaa Atanda

Reaching Those in Need: State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2007

Karen E. Cunnyngham and Laura A. Castner

What Works During Economic Recessions and Recoveries? Evidence From the Pathways Clearinghouse

Alexandra Stanczyk, Dana Rotz, Erin Welch and Andrei Streke

Food Insecurity is Directly Associated with the Use of Health Services for Adverse Health Events among Older Adults

Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer, Marisa Shenk and James Mabli

Evaluation of MCC's Investments in the National Training Fund in Namibia: Findings from Second Round of Qualitative Data

Kristen Velyvis, Arif Mamun, Anca Dumitrescu, Luke Heinkel and Ananya Khan

Examination of the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Benefit and Eligibility Parameters on Low-Income Households (Fact Sheet)

Joshua Leftin, Thomas Godfrey, James Mabli, Nancy Wemmerus and Stephen Tordella

Enhancing the Generalizability of Impact Studies in Education

Elizabeth Tipton and Robert B. Olsen

Developing American Job Centers in Jails: Implementation of the Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release (LEAP) Grants, Executive Summary

Jeanne Bellotti, Samina Sattar, Alix Gould-Werth, Jillian Berk, Ivette GHutierrez, Jillian Stein, Hannah Betesh, Lindsay Ochoa and Andrew Wiegand

Needs and Challenges in Three New Jersey Communities: Implications for Welfare Reform

Joshua Haimson, Alicia Meckstroth, Linda Rosenberg, Richard Roper and Charles Nagatoshi

Kauffman Firm Survey First Follow-Up: Annotated Questionnaire for Public Use File

Tom Barton and David DesRoches

Targeting Would-Be Long-Term Recipients of AFDC

David T. Ellwood

2019 Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods

Jason Markesich, Stacie Feldman and William Rafferty

Consortia and Networks: Have They Benefited Small Rural Hospitals?

Jeanette Bergeron and Kimberly Neuman

The Interaction of Policy and Enrollment in the Medicaid Buy-In Program, 2005

Henry T. Ireys, Sarah R. Davis and Kristin L. Andrews

Medicare+Choice Withdrawals: Experiences in Major Metropolitan Areas

Marsha Gold and John McCoy

Transforming the Early Childhood Workforce: Overview of 2019 Innovation Grants in Colorado

Mark Ezzo, Gretchen Kirby and Jonathan McCay

Evaluation of the Fruit Tree Productivity Project in Morocco: Design Report

Evan Borkum, Anitha Sivasankaran, Jane Fortson, Kristen Velyvis, Christopher Ksoll, Elena Moroz and Matt Sloan

Health Conditions, Utilization, and Expenditures of Children in Foster Care

Margo Rosenbach, Kimball Lewis and Brian Quinn

Better Beginnings: The State of Early Learning and Kindergarten Readiness in White Center

Diane Paulsell, Kimberly Boller, Nikki Aikens, Martha Kovac and Patricia Del Grosso

The Role of Government in Physician Reimbursement

James Woerheide, Tim Lake and Eugene C. Rich

Combined Effect of Mothers' and Fathers' Mental Health Symptoms on Children's Behavioral and Emotional Well-Being

Robert S. Kahn, Dominique Brandt and Robert C. Whitaker

Using a Survey of Social and Emotional Learning and School Climate to Inform Decisionmaking

Tim Kautz, Kathleen Feeney, Hanley Chiang, Sarah Lauffer, Maria Bartlett and Charles Tilley

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

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

Accounting for Geographic Variation in Social Security Disability Program Participation

Jack Gettens, Pei-Pei Lei and Alexis Henry

Progress Together: Transforming the Nation's Medicaid and CHIP Data

Carol Irvin

Coordinating Care for Adults with Complex Care Needs in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Challenges and Solutions

Eugene Rich, Debra Lipson, Jenna Libersky and Michael Parchman

Advanced Placement Participation, Staffing, and Staff Training in the District of Columbia Public Schools

Alyson Burnett and Paul Burkander

Evaluation of UNICEF's Early Childhood Development Programme with Focus on Government of Netherlands Funding (2008-2010) Tanzania Country Case Study Report

Kimberly Boller, Kathy Buek, Andrew Burwick, Minki Chatterji, Diane Paulsell, Samia Amin, Evan Borkum, Larissa Campuzano and Jessica Jacobson

What Have We Learned About SSI Receipt Among Children?

Purvi Sevak and Steven Bruns

Associations among Food Security, School Meal Participation, and Students’ Diet Quality in the First School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study

Sarah Forrestal, Elizabeth Potamites, Joanne Guthrie and Nora Paxton

Reducing Homelessness Among Youth with Child Welfare Involvement: Phase II Implementation Experiences in a Multi-Phase Grant

Rosalind Keith, Nuzhat Islam, Rumin Sarwar and M.C. Bradley

Income Measurement for the 21st Century: Updating the Current Population Survey

John L. Czajka and Gabrielle Denmead

US Life Expectancy: The Authors Reply

John Bound, Arline T. Geronimus, Javier M. Rodriguez and Timothy A. Waidmann

Who's Monitoring the Monitors? Examining Monitors' Accuracy and Consistency to Improve the Quality of Interviews

Joseph Baker, Claudia Gentile, Jason Markesich and Shawn Marsh

Current and Projected Workforce Requirements for Care of the Critically Ill and Patients with Pulmonary Disease

Derek C. Angus, Mark A. Kelley, Robert Schmitz, Alan White and John Popovich

Case Study of South Carolina's Express Lane Eligibility

Jennifer Edwards and Rebecca Kellenberg