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The Class of 2011 Embarks: Perspectives on America's Kindergartners

John M. Love

Semiparametric Bayesian Density Estimation with Disparate Data Sources: A Meta-Analysis of Global Childhood Undernutrition

Mariel M. Finucane, Christopher J. Paciorek, Gretchen A. Stevens and Majid Ezzati

Enrolling the Eligible: Lessons for the Funders

Beth Stevens, Sheila Hoag and Judith Wooldridge

Association of Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Psychological Distress

Vanessa M. Oddo and James Mabli

Evaluation Design Report for the Georgia Improving General Education Quality Project's Training Educators for Excellence Activity

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Nicholas Ingwersen, Elena Moroz and Matt Sloan

Welfare-to-Work Transitions for Parents of Infants: In-Depth Study of Eight Communities

Gretchen Kirby, Christine Ross and Loren Puffer

Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3): Sustaining Systems Change Efforts and Coordinated Services for Youth

Elizabeth Brown

Soil-Transmitted Helminth Eggs are Present in Soil at Multiple Locations within Households in Rural Kenya

Lauren Steinbaum, Sammy M. Njenga, Jimmy Kihara, Alexandria B. Boehm, Jennifer Davis, Clair Null and Amy J. Pickering

Evaluation of School Absenteeism Data for Early Outbreak Detection, New York City

Melanie Besculides, Richard Heffernan, Farzad Mostashari and Don Weiss

Employment Coaching: Working with Low-Income Populations to Use Self-Regulation Skills to Achieve Employment Goals

Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

Pathways-to-Outcomes Snapshots: Tools for Building Evidence for Responsible Fatherhood (RF) Programs

Scott Baumgartner, Amy Overcash, Pamela Holcomb and Heather Zaveri

Factors That Influence Participation in Secondary Vocational Education

Roberto Agodini, Stacey Uhl and Timothy Novak

States' Decisions to Adopt Unemployment Compensation Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Annalisa Mastri, Wayne Vroman, Karen Needels and Walter Nicholson

Measuring Changes in the Economics of Medical Practice

Christopher Fleming, Eugene Rich, Catherine DesRoches, James Reschovsky and Rachel Kogan

Head Start Children, Families, and Programs: Present and Past Data from FACES

Lara Kristin Hulsey, Nikki Aikens, Ashley Kopack, Jerry West, Emily Moiduddin and Louisa Tarullo

National Beneficiary Survey: Round 1 Public Use Data Files

Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones

Evaluating the HCIA - Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse Awards: Third Annual Report

Henry Ireys, Tricia Higgins, Ellen Bouchery, Jonathan Brown, Crystal Blyler, Liz Babalola, Michael Barna, Dan Friend, Matt Kehn, Lareina La Flair, Jennifer Lyons, Rachel Miller, Brenda Natzke, Laura Ruttner, Allison Siegwarth, Michaela Vine and Aparajita Zutshi

Measuring Principals' Effectiveness: Results from New Jersey's Principal Evaluation Pilot

Christine Ross, Mariesa Herrmann and Megan Hague Angus

Using Climate Finance Effectively: Five Recommendations

Tulika Narayan and Anu Rangarajan

Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Framework and Review of Current Work, Interim Report

National Research Council and Institute of Medicine Panel to review the National Childrens Study Research Plan

Does Arkansas' Cash and Counseling Affect Service Use and Public Costs?

Stacy Dale, Randall Brown and Barbara Phillips

Measuring Teachers' Effectiveness: A Report from Phase 3 of Pennsylvania's Pilot of the Framework for Teaching

Stephen Lipscomb, Jeffrey Terziev and Duncan Chaplin

Evaluation of the Non-Formal Skills Development Sub-Activity of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Compact with the Government of El Salvador

Larissa Campuzano, Sarah Humpage, Randall Blair, Seth Morgan and Becca Wang

Preparing Teacher Leaders to Lead Professional Learning: Insights from the National Writing Project

Jeff Archer and Jeffrey Max

Factors Associated with Family Medicine and Internal Medicine First-Year Residents’ Ambulatory Care Training Time

Jung G. Kim, Hector P. Rodriguez, Stephen M. Shortell, Bruce Fuller, Eric S. Holmboe and Diane R. Rittenhouse

Reforming SSDI to Address the Declining Work and Welfare of People with Disabilities: Comment

David Wittenburg

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2013

Esa Eslami

A Qualitative Study of Youth Football Coaches’ Perception of Concussion Safety in American Youth Football and Their Experiences with Implementing Tackling Interventions

Kelly Sarmiento, Dana Waltzman, Kelley Borradaile, Andrew Hurwitz, Kara Conroy and Jaimie Grazi

Using CMS Data to Understand D-SNP Market Trends and Performance, Dual Eligible Characteristics, and State Medicaid Managed Care Programs

Rebecca SweetlLester and Danielle Chelminsky

Effects of the Missouri Career Ladder Program on Teacher Mobility

Kevin Booker and Steven Glazerman

School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study-IV (Summary)

Mary Kay Fox and John Hall

Profile of the Free to Grow Project in Colorado Springs

Mary E. Harrington

Institutionalizing Outreach: A Review of Enroll America's Get Covered Academy Training Program

Cara Orfield, Amy Mangum, Sheila Hoag and Sean Orzol

Respondent Processing of Images in Web Surveys

Nuttirudee Charoenruk and Mathew Stange

Lessons Learned from The Right Time Show How to Advance Reproductive Health During COVID-19 and Beyond

Emily Hoe and So O'Neil

From Innovation to Dissemination: Blueprint for Building Partnerships to Share Educator Development Strategies

Anthea Brady, Jeffrey Max, Steven Malick, Monica Young and Karla Eslinger

Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems

Steven Glazerman, Dan Goldhaber, Susanna Loeb, Stephen Raudenbush, Doug Staiger, Grover J. Whitehurst and Michelle Croft

Serving the Regional Economy: Collaboration Among Local Workforce Investment Boards

Jessica Ziegler

Understanding Head Start Children and Families in Spring 2020: FACES 2019 Descriptive Data Tables and Study Design

Elizabeth Doran, Ann Li, Nikki Aikens, Myley Dang, Ashley Kopack Klein, Natalie Reid, Myah Scott, Sharika Rakibullah, Judy Cannon, Jeff Harrington, Addison Larson, Sara Bernstein, Louisa Tarullo and Lizabeth Malone

Using Behavioral Insights to Improve Take-Up of a Reemployment Program: Trial Design and Findings (Final Report)

Matthew Darling, Christopher O’Leary, Irma Perez-Johnson, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Ken Kline, Ben Damerow, Randall Eberts, Samia Amin and Greg Chojnacki

Study of Access and Quality of Care in For-Profit PACE

David Jones, Nancy Duda, Bob Schmitz, Sandi Nelson, Chelsea Swete, Alex Bryce, Jared Coopersmith and Karen CyBulski

Evaluation of Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans

Robert Schmitz, Angela Merrill, Jennifer Schore, Rachel Shapiro and Jim Verdier

Federal Stewardship of the Medicaid Program: Strengthening Data Systems for Effective Decision Making

David K. Baugh, Henry T. Ireys, Carol V. Irvin and Carey O. Appold

Requirements for State Teacher Evaluation Policies Promoted by Race to the Top (In Focus Brief)

Various Authors

Using the Science About Self-Regulation to Improve Economic Outcomes for TANF Families

Michelle Derr, Jonathan McCay, Ann Person and Mary Anne Anderson

National Job Corps Study: The Benefits and Costs of Job Corps

Sheena McConnell and Steven Glazerman

Woody Hardness Classification Impact on Salvage Laryngectomy Functional Outcomes

Emma J. Djabali, Jason Rotter, Neil N. Chheda, Robert J. Amdur, Kathryn Hitchcock, William Mendenhall and Peter T. Dziegielewski

Conducting Surveys with the Formerly Incarcerated: What Works Best

Rita A. Stapulonis and Martha D. Kovac

Evaluation of Care and Disease Management Under Medicare Advantage: Interim Report

Lisa Green, Judy Goldberg Dey, Julia Doherty, Christopher Moore, Elizabeth Pietrafesa and Emily Dwoyer

Evaluation of the Impact of Telephone Initial Claims Filing

Karen Needels, Walter Corson, Tim Meier, Ira Harley and Karen Blass

From Kindergarten Through Third Grade: Children's Beginning School Experiences

Amy Rathbun and Jerry West

Trends in Disability and Program Participation Among U.S. Veterans

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Jennifer R. Tennant and David C. Stapleton

Race to the Top: Implementation and Relationship to Student Outcomes (Executive Summary)

Lisa Dragoset, Jaime Thomas, Mariesa Herrmann, John Deke, Susanne James-Burdumy, Cheryl Graczewski, Andrea Boyle, Courtney Tanenbaum, Jessica Giffin and Rachel Upton

The 2015 Cohort of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grantees: Interim Report on Grantee Programs and Clients

Sarah Avellar, Alexandra Stanczyk, Nikki Aikens, Mathew Stange and Grace Roemer

The Medical Care Development Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Arnold Chen, Karen Sautter, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol

Making Decisions About Stopping Medicines for Well†Controlled Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Mixed†Methods Study of Patients and Caregivers

Daniel B. Horton, Jomaira Salas, Aleksandra Wec, Melanie Kohlheim, Pooja Kapadia, Timothy Beukelman, Alexis Boneparth, Ky Haverkamp, Melissa L. Mannion, L. Nandini Moorthy, Sarah Ringold and Marsha Rosenthal

Improving Community Skills Development Centers in Namibia (Issue Brief)

Evan Borkum, Kristen Velyvis, Arif Mamun, Malik Khan Mubeen, Anca Dumitrescu and Ananya Khan

Engaging Participants in Workforce Services after Release from Jail

Samina Sattar

Pilot OSHA Citation Process Increases Employer Responsiveness

Greg Chojnacki, Jonah Deutsch, Irma Perez-Johnson, Samia Amin, Matthew Darling and Jaclyn Lefkowitz

Transitional Jobs: Stepping Stones to Unsubsidized Employment

Gretchen Kirby, Heather Hill, LaDonna Pavetti, Jon Jacobson, Michelle Derr and Pamela Winston

Prescription Drug Use and Expenditures Among Dually Eligible Beneficiaries

Ann D. Bagchi, Dominick Esposito and James M. Verdier

Isolating the AFFF Signature in Coastal Watersheds Using Oxidizable PFAS Precursors and Unexplained Organofluorine

Bridger J. Ruyle, Heidi M. Pickard, Denis R. LeBlanc, Andrea K. Tokranov, Colin P. Thackray, Cindy Hu, Chad D. Vecitis and Elsie M. Sunderland

Access to Care and Health Insurance Coverage for Workers with Disabilities: Outcomes by State-Level Responses to the ACA

Anna Hill, Eunhae Shin and Jody Schimmel Hyde

Understanding Features of Quality in Home-Based Child Care That Are Often Overlooked in Research and Policy

Jaimie Orland, Juliet Bromer, Patricia Del Grosso, Toni Porter, Marina Ragonese-Barnes and Sally Atkins-Burnett

Exploring the Potential Role of Staff Surveys in School Leader Evaluation

Whitney Kozakowski, Brian Gill and Menbere Shiferaw

Transforming a Paper Survey Into a Web Survey: Respondent Experiences

Annette Luyegu

Girls Shape the Future Study: Findings and Lessons Learned from an Effort to Assess the Effectiveness of the Girls Incorporated Will Power/Won't Power Program

Susan Goerlich Zief, Anu Rangarajan and Caterina Pisciotta

Informing the Evidence Base on Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Important Lessons (Journal Article)

Brian Goesling

Integrated Service Delivery: Site Visits to Organizations in the Working Families Success Network (WFSN)

Mary Anne Anderson, Lindsay Ochoa, Margaret Sullivan and Nan Maxwell

Services Supporting Healthy Marriage, Data Snapshot: Healthy Marriage Programs

Sarah Avellar, Alexandra Stanczyk, Nikki Aikens, Mathew Stange and Grace Roemer

Global Budgets for Safety-Net Hospitals

Joshua M. Sharfstein, Sule Gerovich and David Chin

School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: Overview of the Study Design

John Burghardt

Modeling the Impact of Eliminating SSI Cash-Out in California

Karen E. Cunnyngham

Review of WIC Food Packages: An Evaluation of White Potatoes in the Cash Value Voucher

Committee to Review WIC Food Packages, Food Nutrition Board and of which Mary Kay Fox is a Committee Member

Measurement Options for the Assessment of Head Start Quality Enhancements, Volume II

Shefali Pai-Samant, Joanna DeWolfe, Sarah Caverly, Kimberly Boller, Sharon McGroder, Jennifer Zettler, Jessica Mills, Christine Ross, Cheryl Clark, Mariel Quinones and Jamie Gulin

Catalog of Research: Programs for Low-Income Fathers

Sarah Avellar, M. Robin Dion, Andrew Clarkwest, Heather Zaveri, Subuhi Asheer, Kelley Borradaile, Megan Hague Angus, Timothy Novak, Julie Redline and Marykate Zukiewicz

Instructional Practices in Los Angeles Universal Preschool

Sally Atkins-Burnett, Yange Xue, Ashley Kopack, Marta Induni and Emily Moiduddin

The Quality Spectrum in Informatics

Rosemary Kennedy, Heidi Bossley, Juliet Rubini and Beth B. Franklin

How Does Losing Health Insurance Affect Disability Claims? Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's Dependent Care Mandate

Michael Levere, Heinrich Hock and Nancy Early

Implementing Measurement Requirements in DSRIP Demonstration Programs

Julia Baller, Jessica Heeringa, Carey Appold, Keanan Lane, Ryan Stringer and James Woerheide

Mental Disorders Among Non-Elderly Nursing Home Residents

Samuel E. Simon, Debra J. Lipson and Christal M. Stone

Dynamics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation in the Mid-2000s (Summary)

James Mabli, Stephen Tordella, Laura Castner, Thomas Godfrey and Priscilla Foran

Supported Employment for People with Intellectual Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Schizophrenia: A Propensity Matched Comparison of Vocational Rehabilitation Outcomes

Fong Chan and John Kregel

Using Administrative Data to Explore the Employment and Benefit Receipt Outcomes of Vocational Rehabilitation Applicants Years after Program Exit

David R. Mann, Todd Honeycutt, Michelle Stegman Bailey and John O’Neill

Measuring Physician Practice Site Characteristics: A Comparison of Data from SK&A and a Practice Site Survey

Kristin A. Maurer, Laura Blue, Sean Orzol, Nikkilyn Morrison Hensleigh and Deborah Peikes

Health Care Access and Use Among Low-Income Children on Subsidized Insurance Programs in California

Christopher Trenholm, Anna Saltzman, Shanna Shulman, Michael Cousineau and Dana Hughes

Pharmacotherapy Relapse Prevention in Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Katharine A. Phillips, Aparna Keshaviah, Darin D. Dougherty, Robert L. Stout, William Menard and Sabine Wilhelm

QRS Profile: Oregon Child Care Quality Indicators Program

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Dental Care Coverage Transitions

Richard J. Manski, John F. Moeller, Haiyan Chen, Patricia A. St Clair, Jody Schimmel, Larry S. Magder and John Pepper

Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to Produce Actionable Findings: A Rapid-Cycle Evaluation Approach to Improving Implementation

Rosalind E. Keith, Jesse C. Crosson, Ann S. O’Malley, DeAnn Cromp and Erin Fries Taylor

Schools Targeted for Improvement: Are Small Sample Sizes Masking Poor School Performance? (Infographic)

Kevin Kelly and Lauren Forrow

Implementing the Institute of Medicine Definition of Disparities: An Application to Mental Health Care

Thomas G. McGuire, Margarita Alegria, Benjamin L. Cook, Kenneth B. Wells and Alan M. Zaslavsky

What Drives Medicare Managed Care Growth

Randall S. Brown and Marsha R. Gold

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity in Vermont: Employer Perspectives

Margo Rosenbach

Assessing the Benefits of Delayed Sexual Activity: A Synthesis of the Literature

Dana Rotz, Brian Goesling, Nicholas Redel, Menbere Shiferaw and Claire Smither-Wulsin

Work-Based Strategies for Hard-to-Employ TANF Recipients: A Preliminary Assessment of Program Models and Dimensions

LaDonna Pavetti, Debra Strong, Ruchika Bajaj, Jon Jacobson, Chrishana Lloyd, Charles Nagatoshi, Randy Rosso and Ali Stieglitz

Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program

Margaret Hargreaves, Vanessa Oddo, Ann Bagchi and Boyd Gilman

BRIGHT Improves Girls' School Enrollment, Test Scores (Issue Brief)

Ali Protik and Matt Sloan

Long-Term Outcomes for Transition-Age Youth With Mental Health Conditions Who Receive Postsecondary Education Support

Priyanka Anand and Todd C. Honeycutt

Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education with Integrated Economic Stability Services: The Impacts of Empowering Families

April Yanyuan Wu, Quinn Moore and Robert G. Wood