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Dental Care Coverage Transitions

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

Improving Education Infrastructure and Training in Georgia

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

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in Fiscal Year 2014 to Fiscal Year 2016 for All Eligible People and Working Poor People

Karen Cunnyngham

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

Priyanka Anand and Todd C. Honeycutt

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

Margaret Hargreaves, Vanessa Oddo, Ann Bagchi and Boyd Gilman

Developing and Running a Primary Care Practice Facilitation Program: A How-To Guide

Lyndee Knox, Erin Fries Taylor, Kristin Geonnotti, Rachel Machta, Jung Kim, Jessica Nysenbaum and Michael Parchman

Durable Medical Equipment and Home Health Among the Largest Contributors to Area Variations in Use of Medicare Services (Journal Article)

James D. Reschovsky, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kate A. Stewart and Deborah J. Chollet

Medicare+Choice: Beneficiaries Will Face Higher Cost-Sharing in 2002

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

Expanding the Evidence: Uncovering Effective Methods to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Mathematica Policy Research

Implementing Ready To Learn Outreach: Lessons from 20 Public Television Stations

Cheri Vogel, Stacey Uhl, Kimberly Boller, Justin Humphrey, Charles Nagatoshi, Lindsay Crozier, Kristin Quitoni, Ali Stieglitz and John Love

An Evaluation of the New York City School-Choice Scholarships Program: The First Year

Paul E. Peterson, David Myers and William G. Howell

What Predicts Sex Partners' Age Differences Among African American Youth? A Longitudinal Study from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

José A. Bauermeister, Marc A. Zimmerman, Cleopatra H. Caldwell, Yange Xue and Gilbert C. Gee

Permanent Random Number Technique to Minimize Response Burden in Repeated Surveys

Darryl Creel, Donsig Jang and Daniel Kasprzyk

GOALS Summary Report

Jacqueline F. Kauff and Elizabeth W. Cavadel

How Are CHIPRA Demonstration States Approaching Practice-Level Quality Measurement and What Are They Learning?

Grace A. Ferry, Henry T. Ireys, Leslie Foster, Kelly J. Devers and Lauren Smith

The Landscape of State and Local School-Located Vaccination Clinics: Practices, Policies, and Lessons Learned for Providing COVID-19 and Routine Vaccinations

Erin Behrmann, Olivia Turner and Maggie Magee

Better Beginnings: Developing Home-Based Early Learning Systems in East Yakima and White Center

Kristin Hallgren, Diane Paulsell and Patricia Del Grosso

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program: State Implementation Progress, School Year 2014-2015

Quinn Moore, Kevin Conway, Brandon Kyler and Andrew Gothro

Assessing the Appeal of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey

Leslie Foster, Randall Brown and Rachel Shapiro

Black Lives Matter: Differential Mortality and the Racial Composition of the U.S. Electorate, 1970–2004

Javier M. Rodriguez, Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound and Danny Dorling

Managed Care of Chronically Ill Older People: The US Experience

Chad Boult, Robert L. Kane and Randall Brown

Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: Summary Report 2011-2014 (Summary)

Ann M. Collins, Ronette Briefel, Jacob Alex Klerman, Anne Wolf, Gretchen Rowe, Chris Logan, Ayesha Enver, Syeda Fatima, Anne Gordon and Julia Lyskawa

Quality Child Care for Infants and Toddlers: Case Studies of Three Community Strategies

Diane Paulsell, Renée Nogales and Julie Cohen

Spring 2013 District Interview Protocol

Mathematica Staff

The New Jersey/Pennsylvania Graduated Work Incentive Experiment Tax Rebate System

Jerilyn Fair and Anne Freeman

Personal Characteristics of Vocational Rehabilitation Applicants: Findings from the Survey of Disability and Employment

Angela Eckstein, Purvi Sevak and Debra Wright

Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education for High School Students

Julia Alamillo and Brian Goesling

The Effect of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) on Quality

Jody Beauchamp, Valerie Cheh, Robert Schmitz, Peter Kemper and John Hall

Improving Behavioral Health Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Atrius Health (Case Study)

Elyse Pegler, Nikki McKoy, Ethan Jacobs and Kate D'Anello

Measuring Teacher Value Added in DC, 2013-2014 School Year

Eric Isenberg and Elias Walsh

The Cost of Medigap Prescription Drug Coverage

Deborah Chollet and Anna Cook

Snapshot of KIPP Leadership Practices through 2010-2011

Joshua Furgeson, Virginia Knechtel, Margaret Sullivan, Christina Clark Tuttle, Lauren Akers, Mary Anne Anderson, Michael Barna and Ira Nichols-Barrer

New Entrepreneurial Learning Phase I Evaluation

Mikia Manley, Margaret Sullivan, Karina Edouard, Eric Brower, Jonathan Ladinsky and Hanzhi Zhou

Expediting the Launch of Service Provision

Anne Paprocki

Proposed Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Waivers to Work-Related Time Limits

Karen Cunnyngham

Evaluation of the Consumer Voices for Coverage Initiative, Phase 3

Mary Harrington and Sheila Hoag

Evaluation of the Minority Female Single Parent Demonstration Volume IV: Technical Report on the Analysis of Social and Psychological Outcomes

Ellen Kisker and John Burghardt

Navigating Your Medicaid Enterprise Data Journey in the New Modular World

John Stern

Food Service Management Companies and the Nutritional Quality of Lunches Offered and Consumed

Philip M. Gleason, Mary Jo Cutler and Mary Kay Fox

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

Elizabeth Copson, Karin Martinson, Valerie Benson, Michael Benson, Annalisa Mastri, Karen Needels and Julie Williams

The Effectiveness of Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing (Executive Summary)

Susanne James-Burdumy, Brian Goesling, John Deke and Eric Einspruch

Issues in Calculating Average Effect Sizes in Meta-Analyses

Rebecca Maynard, Nianbo Dong and Irma Perez-Johnson

Barriers to Choosing Wisely® in Primary Care: It’s Not Just About “The Moneyâ€

Eugene C. Rich

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2008

Kari Wolkwitz and Carole Trippe

Preparing for Life After High School: The Characteristics and Experiences of Youth in Special Education. Findings from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012. Volume 2: Comparisons Across Disability Groups (Executive Summary)

Stephen Lipscomb, Joshua Haimson, Albert Y. Liu, John Burghardt, David R. Johnson and Martha Thurlow

Employment Support for the Transition to Retirement: Can a New Program Help Older Workers Continue to Work and Protect Those Who Cannot?

David C. Stapleton

Moving Markets: Lessons from New Hampshire's Health Care Price Transparency Experiment

Ha Tu and Rebecca Gourevitch

Supporting Statement for the Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE) Evaluation

Gina Livermore, Holly Matulewicz and Jacqueline Kauff

Factors Contributing to Assessment Burden in Preschoolers

Cassandra Rowand, Susan Sprachman, Ina Wallace, Holly Rhodes and Sarah Avellar

Exploring External Data to Enhance Monitoring and Evaluation of WHD’s Compliance Strategies

Ankita Patnaik

Evaluation of Maine Dirigo Health Reform: Selection of Measures and Data to Assess Progress

Debra L. Lipson

Helping Workers Keep Their Jobs After an Injury, Illness, or Disability: State Strategies (Fact Sheet)

Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Evaluation of Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Systems: Interim Report

Evelyn K. Hawkins, Suzanne D. Kreutzer, Katherine P. Dickinson, Paul T. Decker and Walter S. Corson

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2007

Louisa B. Tarullo, Cheri A. Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Emily Sama Martin, Renée Nogales and Patricia Del Grosso

Restructuring Medicaid Offices to Deal with Managed Care

James M. Verdier

An Assessment of Computer Matching in the Food Stamp Program Vol. II: State Profiles

William S. Borden and Robbi L. Ruben-Urm

Access to Effective Teaching for Disadvantaged Students (In Focus Brief)

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

Analytical Methods for a Learning Health System: 3. Analysis of Observational Studies

Michael Stoto, Michael Oakes, Elizabeth Stuart, Randall Brown, Jelena Zurovac and Elisa L. Priest

Pay for Performance: Are Hospitals Ready and Willing?

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Mary Laschober

Prescription Drug Demand for Therapeutic Substitutes: Do Copayments and Insurer Non-Price Rationing Influence Patient Utilization?

Dominick Esposito

Food Stamp Leavers in Illinois: How Are They Doing Two Years Later?

Anu Rangarajan and Philip M. Gleason

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

Jung Y. Kim and Victoria Peebles

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Recruitment and Random Assignment Report

Heinrich Hock, David Wittenburg, Michael Levere, Noelle Denny-Brown and Heather Gordon

Medicaid-Financed Nursing Home Services: Characteristics of People Served and Their Patterns of Care, 2001-2002

Audra T. Wenzlow, Robert Schmitz and Jill Gurvey

Analysis of Niche Hospitals in Texas and the Financial Impact on General Hospitals

Deborah Chollet, Su Liu, Gilbert Gimm, Cheryl Fahlman, Laurie Felland, Anneliese Gerland, Michelle Banker and Allison Liebhaber

State Vocational Rehabilitation Programs and Federal Disability Insurance: An Analysis of Virginia's Vocational Rehabilitation Program

David Dean, John Pepper, Robert M. Schmidt and Steven Stern

State Options and Considerations for Sharing Medicaid Enrollment and Service Use Information with D-SNPs

Erin Weir Lakhmani and James Verdier

Separating Signal from Noise in Wastewater Data: An Algorithm to Identify Community-Level COVID-19 Surges

Aparna Keshaviah, Ian Huff, Xindi (Cindy) Hu, Virginia Guidry, Ariel Christensen, Steven Berkowitz, Stacie Reckling, Sandra McLellan, Adélaï de Roguet and Isabel Mussa

Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study: Improvements Needed in Meeting Infant Feeding Recommendations

Ronette R. Briefel, Kathleen Reidy, Vatsala Karwe and Barbara Devaney

Youth Transition Demonstration Shows Promise for Improving Employment Outcomes of Youth with Disabilities, But Can They Be Replicated and Sustained? (Snapshot)

David Wittenburg

Chartbook: Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use and Reimbursement in 2005

Ann Bagchi, James Verdier and Dominick Esposito

How Do Leaders from Healthcare Institutions View Social Determinants of Health?

Dana Jean-Baptiste, Alaya Martin, Lisa Thirer and Dierdre Flynn

SSI Youth Recipient and Employment Transition Formative Research Project: Community of Practice: Organizational Features and Lessons Learned

Kelli Crane, Richard Luecking, Todd Honeycutt and Sarah Palmer

Is School Value Added Indicative of Principal Quality?

Hanley Chiang, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

Social Security Administration Payments to State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies for Disability Program Beneficiaries Who Work: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data

Jody Schimmel Hyde and Paul O'Leary

Estimating the Hospital Costs of Inpatient Harms

Priyanka Anand, Keith Kranker and Arnold Y. Chen

The Effects of Welfare Reform on the Characteristics of the Food Stamp Population

Philip Gleason, Carole Trippe, Scott Cody and Jacquie Anderson

What Kinds of Health Insurance Do Small Businesses Offer? Results from a Survey of Five States

Catherine McLaughlin and Adam Swinburn

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2017 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel

Sarah Lauffer, Alma Vigil, Chrystine Tadler and Elaine Wilcox-Cook

Matching Trainees’ Skills to Market Needs in Georgia: New Vocational Training Courses Show Early Promise (Evaluation Brief)

Evan Borkum, Irina Cheban, Camila Fernandez and Ira Nichols-Barrer

Improving Teacher Quality: Lessons Learned from Grantees of the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education

Clemencia Cosentino and Swetha Sridharan

Youth Unemployment in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hande Inanc

Value-Added Models for the Pittsburgh Public Schools, 2012-13 School Year

Dana Rotz, Matthew Johnson and Brian Gill

Trends in the Composition and Outcomes of Young Social Security Disability Awardees

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

Connecting Education Research to Practitioners and Practitioners to Education Research

Mark Dynarski

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: 2001 to 2008

Joshua Leftin

Internet Access for Pre-Release Job Search Training

Hannah Betesh

Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 15-Month Impact Findings on the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs

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

Living Arrangements and School Dropout Among Teen Mothers Following Welfare Reform

Heather Koball

Responsible Fatherhood Programs in the Parents and Children Together (PACT) Evaluation

M. Robin Dion, Heather Zaveri and Pamela Holcomb

Evaluating the Performance of Philadelphia's Charter Schools

Ron Zimmer, Suzanne Blanc, Brian Gill and Jolley Christman

Determinants of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation from 2008 to 2012

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

Helping High-Risk Youths: Results from the Alternative Schools Demonstration Program

Mark Dynarski and Robert Wood

Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care

Max Gross and E. Jason Baron

Cost Concerns Grow Despite New Health Plan Competition in Syracuse

Glen P. Mays, Sally Trude, Lawrence P. Casalino, Laurie E. Felland, Gary Claxton, Jessica H. May, Megan McHugh and Lydia E. Regopoulos

Lessons on Improving Governance in a Complex Policy Environment in Rwanda

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

Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Services Demonstration Evaluation: Executive Summary

Crystal Blyler, Melissa Azur, Bonnie O'Day, Priyanka Anand, Allison Barrett, Kavita Choudhry, Kara Contreary, Sarah Croake, Molly Crofton, Noelle Denny-Brown, Brian Johnston, Jasmine Little, Jennifer Lyons, Brenda Natzke, Stephanie Peterson, Max Rubinstein, Allison Siegwarth, James Woerheide and Kara Zivin

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

Melissa A. Clark, Philip M. Gleason, Christina Clark Tuttle and Marsha K. Silverberg

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Community-Based Support Program for Families of Children with Chronic Illness: Pediatric Outcomes

Robin G. Chernoff, Henry T. Ireys, Katherin A. DeVet and Young J. Kim

Societal Costs of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Washington

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