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School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study Volume 2: Nutritional Characteristics of School Meals (Summary)

Elizabeth Gearan, Mary Kay Fox, Katherine Niland, Dallas Dotter, Liana Washburn, Patricia Connor, Lauren Olsho and Tara Wommack

Examining a New Model for Prisoner Re-Entry Services: The Evaluation of Beneficiary Choice

Jeanne Bellotti, Michelle Derr, Jillian Berk and Nora Paxton

Evaluation of the Minority Female Single Parent Demonstration Volume II: Technical Supplement to the Analysis of Economic Impacts

Anu Rangarajan, John Burghardt and Anne Gordon

Systems Model of Physician Professionalism in Practice

Barrett T. Kitch, Catherine DesRoches, Cara Lesser, Amy Cunningham and Eric G. Campbell

Estimating Program Impacts for a Subgroup Defined by Post-Intervention Behavior: Why is it a Problem? What is the Solution?

Silvie Colman

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Los Angeles Promise Neighborhood

Andrea Mraz Esposito, Sarah Osborn, Jessica Zeigler, Lara Hulsey and Kimberly Boller

Implementation of Title I and Title II-A Program Initiatives: Results From 2013–14

Patricia Troppe, Anthony T. Milanowski, Camilla Heid, Brian Gill and Christine Ross

Integrating Latino Immigrants in New Rural Destinations

Heather Koball, Randy Capps, William Kandel, Jamila Henderson and Everett Henderson

Identifying Students At Risk Using Prior Performance Versus a Machine Learning Algorithm

Lindsay Cattell and Julie Bruch

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

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

Testing Case Management in a Rural Context: An Impact Analysis of the Illinois Future Steps Program

Alicia Meckstroth, Ann Person, Quinn Moore, Andrew Burwick, Andrew McGuirk, Michael Ponza, Shawn Marsh, Timothy Novak, Zhanyun Zhao and Justin Wheeler

The Early Head Start Father Studies: Design, Data Collection, and Summary of Father Presence in the Lives of Infants and Toddlers

Kimberly Boller, Robert Bradley, Natasha Cabrera, Helen Raikes, Barbara Pan, Jeffrey Shears and Lori Roggman

Do Low-Income Students Have Equal Access to Effective Teachers? Evidence from 26 Districts (Final Report)

Eric Isenberg, Jeffrey Max, Philip Gleason, Matthew Johnson, Jonah Deutsch and Michael Hansen

A Spotlight on Dual Language Learners in Head Start: FACES 2014, Appendix Tables

Nikki Aikens, Emily Knas, Lizabeth Malone, Louisa Tarullo and Jessica F. Harding

The Youth Transition Demonstration: Lifting Employment Barriers for Youth with Disabilities

Thomas Fraker

The Community Tracking Study Surveys of Physicians

Frank Potter, Stephen Williams and Nuria Diaz-Tena

LIFT: Implementation Findings from the Evaluation of Employment Coaching

Karen Gardiner, Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

Provider Engagement Toolkit

Nazihah Siddiqui, Sonya Streeter, Ethan Jacobs and Rumin Sarwar

Oakland's Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: Impacts on Prices, Purchases and Consumption by Adults and Children

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

Assessment of Calories Purchased After Calorie Labeling of Prepared Foods in a Large Supermarket Chain

Joshua Petimar, Anna H. Grummon, Fang Zhang, Steven L. Gortmaker, Alyssa J. Moran, Michele Polacsek, Eric B. Rimm, Christina A. Roberto, Anjali Rao, Lauren P. Cleveland, Denise Simon, Rebecca L. Franckle, Sue Till, Julie Greene and Jason P. Block

Sector Training Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from the America's Promise Partnerships

Jeanne Bellotti, Brittany English and Alicia Harrington

Building State-Level Advocacy Networks: CVC After Two Years

Debra A. Strong, Sheila Hoag, Subuhi Asheer and Jamila Henderson

Evaluation of UNICEF's Early Childhood Development Programme with Focus on Government of Netherlands Funding (2008-2010) Global Synthesis Report

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

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Implementation Lessons from the Original Projects

John Martinez, Thomas Fraker, Michelle Manno, Peter Baird, Arif Mamun, Bonnie O'Day, Anu Rangarajan and David Wittenburg

Development of the Medicaid Analytic Extract Enrollee Master (MAXEM) File, 2005 and 2006

John L. Czajka, Audra Wenzlow and Julie Sykes

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Florida's KidCare Program

Mary Harrington and William Black

Achieving Coordination of Care to Improve Population Health: Provider Collaboration in Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Programs

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

Changes in Opioid Treatment Program Staffing from 2011 to 2016

Ellen Bouchery and Monica Farid

Moving Forward Together: How Programs Can Support Informal Caregivers and Parents

Jaime Thomas, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Madeline Young, Kimberly Boller, Mindy Hu and Daisy Gonzalez

Children in Early Head Start and Head Start: A Profile of Early Leavers

Pia Caronongan, Emily Moiduddin, Jerry West and Cheri A. Vogel

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative: Second Annual Report

Deborah Peikes, Erin Fries Taylor, Stacy Dale, Ann O'Malley, Arkadipta Ghosh, Grace Anglin, Kaylyn Swankoski, Aparajita Zutshi, Lara Converse and Randall Brown

The Carle Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

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

SCHIP at 10: A Synthesis of the Evidence on Access to Care in SCHIP

Shanna Shulman and Margo Rosenbach

Declining Employment Among a Growing Group of Work-Oriented Beneficiaries, 2005-2015

Gina Livermore, Purvi Sevak and Marisa Shenk

Building the Evidence Base for Tele-Emergency Care: Efforts to Identify a Standardized Set of Outcome Measures

Yael Harris, Boyd Gilman, Marcia M. Ward, Jonathan Ladinsky, Jacqueline Crowley, Cannon Warren and Craig Caplan

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

Grace Anglin, Deborah Peikes, Dana Petersen, Ann O'Malley, Kristin Geonnotti, Arkadipta Ghosh, Pragya Singh, Ha Tu, Stacy Dale, Kaylyn Swankoski, Dana Jean-Baptiste, Janice Genevro, Sheila Hoag, Katie Morrison Lee, Rosalind Keith, Victoria Peebles, Amanda Markovitz, Min-Young Kim, Sean Orzol, Laura Blue, Ning Fu, Jessica Laird, Lauren Vollmer, Mariel Finucane, Laurie Felland, Linda Barterian, Rumin Sarwar, Jasmine Little, Rachel Machta, Genna Cohen, Mynti Hossain, Melanie Au, Grace Oh, Lee-Lee Ellis, Elizabeth Holland, Randall Brown and Et Al.

Societal Costs of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Washington

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

Teen Activities and Attitudes Study: Wave 1 Questionnaire

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

WIC Turns 35: Program Effectiveness and Future Directions

Barbara Devaney

Mentoring: What Is It? How Do We Do It and How Do We Get More Of It?

Catherine McLaughlin

Reliance Healthcare's Emergency Department Care Coordination Program

Bess Fleischman, Natalie Graves and Sonya Streeter

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on the City University of New York's Project

Thomas Fraker, Alison Black, Joseph Broadus, Arif Mamun, Michelle Manno, John Martinez, Reanin McRoberts, Anu Rangarajan and Debbie Reed

American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (AIAN FACES): 2021-22 Data Collection

Lizabeth Malone and Sara Bernstein

Re-Defining the Who, When, and Where of Mentoring for Professional Statisticians

Lauren Vollmer, Aparna Keshaviah, Dmitriy Poznyak, Sharon Zhao, Fei Xing and Nicholas Beyler

Paying Wisely: Using Incentive Reforms to Reduce Costs and Improve Patient Outcomes

Robert Berenson, Christine Cassel, Stuart Guterman, Timothy Lake and Eugene Rich

Measure Twice, Cut Once, Part 2: Using VR Agencies’ Administrative Data to Monitor Pre-Employment Transition Services

Todd Honeycutt and Purvi Sevak

The Family Unification Program: A Housing Resource for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

M. Robin Dion, Rebecca Kleinman, Jackie Kauff and Amy Dworsky

Spotlight on Pennsylvania

Grace Anglin, Leslie Foster and Mynti Hossain

Nutrition, Food Security, and Obesity

Harold Beebout

Do Tax Incentives Increase 401 (K) Retirement Saving? Evidence from the Adoption of Catch-Up Contributions

Matthew Rutledge, April Yanyuan Wu and Francis M. Vitagliano

Responsible Fatherhood Programming: Two Approaches to Service Delivery

Heather Zaveri, Robin Dion and Scott Baumgartner

What Have we Learned about SSA and VR Program Interactions?

David R. Mann

Possible State Intervention Options to Serve Transition-Age Youths: Lessons from the West Virginia Youth Works Demonstration Project

Joyanne Cobb, David Wittenburg and Cara Stepanczuk

The National Evaluation of Reading Comprehension Interventions: Design Report

Susanne James-Burdumy, David Myers, John Deke, Wendy Mansfield, Russell Gersten, Joseph Dimino, Janice Dole, Lauren Liang, Sharon Vaughn and Meaghan Edmonds

Logistic Propensity Models to Adjust for Nonresponse in Physician Surveys

Nuria Diaz-Tena, Frank Potter, Michael Sinclair and Stephen Williams

Supporting Practices to Adopt Registry-Based Care (SPARC): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Rebecca S. Etz, Rosalind E. Keith, Anna M. Maternick, Karen L. Stein, Roy T. Sabo, Melissa S. Hayes, Purvi Sevak, John Holland and Jesse C. Crosson

Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Partnerships Between Employers and Health Plans

Patricia Collins Higgins, Melanie Au and Erin Fries Taylor

Left Out of the Boom Economy: UI Recipients in the Late 1990s

Karen Needels, Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

Introduction to Contracting with D-SNPs

Jim Verdier, Alexandra Kruse and Rebecca Lester

Analysis of the Characteristics of Medicare Advantage Plan Participation

Marsha Gold and Stephanie Peterson

Nonresponse Adjustments for a Survey of Children with Disabilities Using Information of a Responsible Adult

Nuria Diaz-Tena and Frank Potter

Market Signals: Evidence on the Determinants and Consequences of School Choice from a Citywide Lottery

Steven Glazerman and Dallas Dotter

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program State Implementation Progress, School Year 2011-2012: Report to Congress (Summary)

Quinn Moore, Kevin Conway and Brandon Kyler

Working Toward Solutions for Integration: Updates from Guidance and Proposed Rules (Presentation)

Nancy Archibald, Erin Weir Lakhmani and Michelle Herman Soper

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Effectiveness of Reminder Messages for Recruitment

Heinrich Hock, Michael Levere and David Wittenburg

The Long-Term Effects of Transitional Employment Services

Paul T. Decker and Craig V. Thornton

Changing Demography of Social Safety Net Programs

Colleen Heflin and Yumiko Aratani

The Medicaid Analytic eXtract 2004 Chartbook

Victoria Perez, Bob Schmitz, Audra T. Wenzlow, Kathy Shepperson, David Baugh and Susan Radke

Early Head Start Home Visits and Classrooms: Stability, Predictors, and Thresholds of Quality

Nikki Aikens, Yange Xue, Eileen Bandel, Pia Caronongan, Cheri A. Vogel and Kimberly Boller

The Integration of Latino Immigrants in the Rural United States

Heather Koball, William Kandel, Randolph Capps and Rosa Maria Castañeda

Supporting Student Engagement in Remote and Hybrid Learning Environments

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid‑Atlantic

Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2001

Laura Castner and Allen Schirm

Application of the Spanish-Language Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure to Assess Patient-Centered Care Among Latino Populations

Lareina La Flair, Anna Christensen, Jonathan Brown and Lawrence S. Wissow

Updating a Claims-Based Measure of Low-Value Services Applicable to Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries

Chris Fleming, Eunhae Shin, Rhea Powell, Dmitriy Poznyak, Arvin Javadi, Claire Burkhart, Arkadipta Ghosh and Eugene Rich

Family Wealth at the End of the 1990's: Estimates from the SIPP

John Czajka, Scott Cody and Alexander Strand

Impact on Family and Work

Shanna Shulman, Henry Ireys and Stephanie Peterson

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011

Esa Eslami and Karen Cunnyngham

The Equity Project Charter School: Impacts on Student Achievement

Joshua Furgeson, Moira McCullough, Clare Wolfendale and Brian Gill

Building Infrastructure to Support Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Two-Year Findings from the Cross-Site Evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Initiative

Patricia Del Grosso, Margaret Hargreaves, Diane Paulsell, Cheri Vogel, Debra A. Strong, Heather Zaveri, Megan Hague Angus, Brandon Coffee-Borden, Russell Cole, Kirsten Barrett, Kimberly Boller and Deborah Daro

The Andrew Hill High School Medical-Health Professions Magnet Program: A Summative Evaluation

Linda C. Rosenberg and Ellen Eliason Kisker

Dual Eligibles: Opportunities and Challenges

James M. Verdier

Delivering Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Services to High-Risk Youth: The Impacts of Teen Choice in New York

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

Performance Measurement for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Modernization Initiatives: Individual State Findings

Kathleen Keefe, Emily Sama-Miller, Laura Castner, Maura Bardos, Elizabeth Clary, Sarah Wissell and Larry Vittoriano

MCC Indonesia Nutrition Project Impact Evaluation Interim Report

Amanda Beatty, Evan Borkum, Jeremy Brecher-Haimson, Erin Crossett, Nick Ingwersen, William Leith, Clair Null and Swetha Sridharan

The National Evaluation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: 24 Month Follow-Up Survey Instrument

Rita Stapulonis, Shawn Marsh and Jason Markesich

Student Achievement in New York City Middle Schools Affiliated with Achievement First and Uncommon Schools

Bing-ru Teh, Moria McCullough and Brian P. Gill

National Job Corps Study: Findings Using Administrative Earnings Records Data

Peter Z. Schochet, Sheena McConnell and John Burghardt

Medicare Advantage 2014 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

An Application of Confidence Interval Methods for Small Proportions in the Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries

Amang Sukasih and Donsig Jang

Systematic Reviews as a Tool in Evidence-Based Decision Making: Improving Research and Informing Practice

Jill Constantine

The Marriage Measures Guide of State-Level Statistics

Brian Goesling, Robert G. Wood, Carol Razafindrakoto and Jamila Henderson

Father Involvement in Early Head Start Programs: A Practitioners Study

Helen H. Raikes, Kimberly Boller, Welmoet van Kammen, JeanAnn Summers, Abbie Raikes, Debbie Laible, Brian Wilcox, Lenna Ontai and Lanette Christensen

Improving Survey Estimates of the Uninsured Using Computer-Assisted Interviewing Logic

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Using Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) Files to Identify Dually Eligible Individuals

Erin Weir Lakhmani

Comparing Responses to the Race Question Asked Two Different Ways

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Shifting Medicare Choices, 1999-2003

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Food Stamp Program Participation Rates in 2004-2006 for All Eligible People and the Working Poor

Karen E. Cunnyngham, Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

Review of International Evidence on the Cost of Disability

David Stapleton, Ali Protik and Christal Stone

States That Received Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge Grants Made Progress in Developing Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (Infographic)

Mathematica Policy Research Staff

We Grow Together Professional Development System: Implementation with Infant-Toddler Teachers and Caregivers

Harshini Shah, Ayesha De Mond, Shannon Monahan and Louisa Tarullo