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APPI Cross-Site Evaluation: Interim Report (Executive Summary)

Margaret B. Hargreaves, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Samantha Penoyer, Michaela Vine, Laura Ruttner and Alena Davidoff-Gore

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

Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa, Final Evaluation

Randall Blair, Tulika Narayan, Drew Koleros, Faraz Usmani, Kato Kimbugwe and Margaret Mangheni

Non-Elderly Disabled Category 2 Housing Choice Voucher Program: An Implementation and Impact Analysis

Debra Lipson, Denise Hoffman and Matthew Kehn

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

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2017

Kathryn Cronquist and Sarah Lauffer

The Changing Face of Managed Care

Debra Draper, Robert E. Hurley, Cara Lesser and Bradley C. Strunk

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

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

The School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: School Food Service, Meals Offered, and Dietary Intakes

John Burghardt, Anne Gordon, Nancy Chapman, Philip Gleason and Thomas Fraker

The Effects of Cash and Counseling on the Primary Informal Caregivers of Children with Developmental Disabilities

Leslie Foster, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

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

Changing Demography of Social Safety Net Programs

Colleen Heflin and Yumiko Aratani

The SourceAmerica Pathways to Careersâ„¢ Demonstration Pilot in Utah: Interim Evaluation Report, Executive Summary

Noelle Denny-Brown, Gina Livermore, Marisa Shenk and Eric Morris

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

Review of Adult Education Programs and Their Effectiveness: A Background Paper for Reauthorization of the Adult Education Act

Mary T. Moore and Michael Stavrianos

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

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

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

Impacts of an Enhanced Family Health and Sexuality Module of the HealthTeacher Middle School Curriculum

Brian Goesling, Silvie Colman, Mindy Scott and Elizabeth Cook

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

Nancy Archibald, Erin Weir Lakhmani and Michelle Herman Soper

Dual Eligibles: Opportunities and Challenges

James M. Verdier

Families on TANF in Illinois: Employment Assets and Liabilities

Gretchen Kirby, Thomas Fraker, LaDonna Pavetti and Martha Kovac

Case Study of Illinois: Exploring Links Between Policy, Practice and the Trends in New Medicaid/SCHIP Enrollments

Kathy Gifford, Gaylee Morgan, Donna Marks and Chris Trenholm

Evaluation of the Irrigation and Water Resource Management Project in Senegal: Design Report

Aravind Moorthy, Thomas Coen, Katie Naeve, Jeremy Brecher-Haimson and Sarah Hughes

Health and Disabilities Services in Early Head Start: Are Families Getting Needed Health Care Services?

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Carol Kuhns

Promising Practices to Help Minority Youth with Disabilities Make the Transition to Postsecondary Life

Sharonlyn Harrison, Anika Sandy-Hanson and Gina Freeman

Five Tips for Teaching Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education in Schools

Brian Goesling and Julia Alamillo

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

Karen Needels, Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

Gaps in the Evidence on Employment and Training for Low-Income Adults

Annalisa Mastri and Jacob Hartog

Introduction to Contracting with D-SNPs

Jim Verdier, Alexandra Kruse and Rebecca Lester

The Community Tracking Study Surveys of Physicians

Frank Potter, Stephen Williams and Nuria Diaz-Tena

Creation of the September 2002 MATH SIPP+ Microsimulation Model and Database

Joel Smith

Proposed Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Heating and Cooling Standard Utility Allowances and Earned Income

Karen Cunnyngham, J.B. Wogan and Sarah Lauffer

The Medicaid Analytic eXtract 2004 Chartbook

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

New Recommendations on Retention and Reemployment Could Keep Workers in Jobs After Injury or Illness

Steve Bruns

Process Evaluation of Older Americans Act Title III-C Nutrition Services Program

James Mabli, Nicholas Redel, Rhoda Cohen, Erin Panzarella, Mindy Hu and Barbara Carlson

Comparing Responses to the Race Question Asked Two Different Ways

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Primary Prevention and Health Outcomes: Treatment of Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazards and the Prevalence of Childhood Lead Poisoning

David J. Jones

The Struggle to Provide Community-Based Care to Low-Income People with Serious Mental Illnesses

Peter Cunningham, Kelly McKenzie and Erin Fries Taylor

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

Evaluation Design Report for the Benin Power Compact's Electricity Generation Project and Electricity Distribution Project

Christopher Ksoll, Kristine Bos, Sarah Hughes, Anthony Harris and Arif Mamun

New Findings on the Retention of Novice Teachers from Teaching Residency Programs

Tim Silva, Allison McKie and Philip Gleason

Practical Lessons for Health Reform from the Military Health System

Thomas Croghan, Kristen Purcell and Kate Stewart

Responsible Fatherhood Programming: Two Approaches to Service Delivery

Heather Zaveri, Robin Dion and Scott Baumgartner

A Program Model for Encouraging Sexually Experienced Youth to Cease Sexual Activity

Jacqueline Crowley, Betsy Keating and Heather Zaveri

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

Elementary-Grade Math Programs in the Pittsburgh Public Schools: A Comparison of Everyday Mathematics and Harcourt Math

Catherine Nelson, Julia Kaufman, Kevin Booker and Brian Gill

Health Insurance Costs and Employee Compensation: Evidence from the National Compensation Survey

Priyanka Anand

The Short†Term Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Care Expenditures Among US Adults

Rita Hamad and Matthew J. Niedzwiecki

Increasing Access to Electricity in Liberia

Various Authors

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

The National Health Plan Collaborative: Overview of Its Origins, Accomplishments, and Lessons Learned

Erin Fries Taylor and Marsha Gold

International Efforts to Serve Youth with Disabilities

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

The Benefit Receipt Patterns and Labor Market Experiences of Older Workers Who Were Denied SSDI on the Basis of Work Capacity

Jody Schimmel Hyde, April Yanyuan Wu and Lakhpreet Gill

The Carle Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

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

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

Linda C. Rosenberg and Ellen Eliason Kisker

Changes in Opioid Treatment Program Staffing from 2011 to 2016

Ellen Bouchery and Monica Farid

Assessing the Effectiveness of Efforts to Diversify the Health Professions: Evidence from the RWJF Summer Medical and Dental Education Program

Clemencia Cosentino

Evidence-Based Home Visiting Systems Evaluation Update: Infrastructure-Building Plans and Activities in 2011

Diane Paulsell, Margaret Hargreaves, Brandon Coffee-Borden and Kimberly Boller

Inside Online Charter Schools

Brian Gill, Lucas Walsh, Claire Smither Wulsin, Holly Matulewicz, Veronica Severn, Eric Grau, Amanda Lee and Tess Kerwin

Expanding the Toolbox: Methods to Study and Refine Patient-Centered Medical Home Models (Issue Brief)

Debbie Peikes, Dana Petersen, Aparajita Zutshi, David Meyers and Janice Genevro

The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Findings from the Impact and Implementation Studies

Kimberly Boller, Patricia Del Grosso, Randall Blair, Yumiko Jolly, Ken Fortson, Diane Paulsell, Eric Lundquist, Kristin Hallgren and Martha Kovac

Developing Math and Science Skills Among Disadvantaged Youth: A Review of the Upward Bound Precollege Math/Science Centers

Mary T. Moore

Effectiveness of Selected Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions: Findings from Two Student Cohorts

Susanne James-Burdumy, John Deke, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Nancy Carey, Alan Hershey, Russell Gersten, Rebecca Newman-Gonchar, Joseph Dimino, Kelly Haymond and Bonnie Faddis

National Job Corps Study: Findings Using Administrative Earnings Records Data

Peter Z. Schochet, Sheena McConnell and John Burghardt

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2011 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel

Joshua Leftin, Esa Eslami, Katherine Bencio, Kai Filion and Daisy Ewell

Expanding Access to Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage

James Haven and Deborah Chollet

Adapting an Evidence-Based Curriculum in a Rural Setting: The Longer-Term Impacts of Reducing the Risk in Kentucky

Brian Goesling, Joanne Lee, Robert G. Wood and Susan Zief

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

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

Logistic Propensity Models to Adjust for Nonresponse in Physician Surveys

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

The School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: Dietary Intakes of Program Participants and Nonparticipants

Barbara Devaney, Anne Gordon and John Burghardt

Transforming Coalition Leadership: An Evaluation of a Collaborative Leadership Training Program

Jung Y. Kim, Todd Honeycutt and Michaella Morzuch

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

Esa Eslami and Karen Cunnyngham

Performance Management for State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies Serving Transition-Aged Youth (Issue Brief)

Rachel Miller, Purvi Sevak and Todd Honeycutt

RPG Cross-Site Evaluation and Technical Assistance: First Annual Report

Debra A. Strong, Sarah A. Avellar and Christine Ross

Engaging Community Members in Evaluations of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs

Danielle Whicher, Julia Alamillo, Lexi Ouellette and Breyon 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

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

An Analysis of the 1981-82 Changes in the Extended Benefit Program

Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

Impact on Family and Work

Shanna Shulman, Henry Ireys and Stephanie Peterson

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Los Angeles Promise Neighborhood

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

Three-Year Impacts of Services and Work Incentives on Youth with Disabilities

Thomas Fraker, Arif Mamun and Lori Timmins

The Youth Transition Demonstration Project in Miami, Florida: Design, Implementation, and Three-Year Impacts

Thomas M. Fraker, Kelli T. Crane, Todd C. Honeycutt, Richard G. Luecking, Arif A. Mamun and Bonnie L O’Day

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

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

Jeanne Bellotti, Brittany English and Alicia Harrington

How Have Rural Hospitals Improved Their Viability?

Kimberly Neuman, Jeanette Bergeron and Anthony Mazzeo

What Have we Learned about SSA and VR Program Interactions?

David R. Mann

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

Early Head Start Evaluation: Parent Services Follow-Up Instrument

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

Gina Livermore, Purvi Sevak and Marisa Shenk

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

John Czajka, Scott Cody and Alexander Strand

Tracking Performance of the Medicare+Choice Program: Results from Medicare HEDIS 1999 and 2000

Timothy Lake and Margo Rosenbach

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in Fiscal Year 2013 to Fiscal Year 2015 for All Eligible People and Working Poor People

Karen Cunnyngham

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

Shanna Shulman and Margo Rosenbach

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

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

Matching Study Designs to Research Questions in Disability-Related Comparative Effectiveness Research

Jeffrey Ballou, Eugene Rich and Matthew Kehn

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Including Group Quarters Residents with Household Residents Can Change What We Know About Working-Age People with Disabilities

David Stapleton, Todd Honeycutt and Bruce Schechter

Evaluation of the Charleston Claimant Placement and Work Test Demonstration

Walter Corson, David Long and Walter Nicholson

Climate and Health Co-Benefits in Low-Income Countries: A Case Study of Carbon Financed Water Filters in Kenya and a Call for Independent Monitoring (Journal Article)

Amy J. Pickering, Benjamin F. Arnold, Holly N. Dentz, John M. Colford and Clair Null

Employment-Related Health Insurance and Service Delivery Needs of Persons With Disabilities

John Gettens and Alexis D. Henry

Income Eligibility for Assistance Under the ACA: The Question of Monthly vs. Annual Income

John L. Czajka