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The Characteristics and Experiences of English Learner Students with Disabilities in Secondary School: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012

Albert Y. Liu, Stephen Lipscomb and Alexander Johann

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.

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

Teen Activities and Attitudes Study: Wave 1 Questionnaire

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Early Head Start Home Visitation: The Role of Implementation in Bolstering Program Benefits

Brenda Jones Harden, Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Helen Raikes and Cheri Vogel

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

Erin Weir Lakhmani

Playworks Implementation in 17 Schools from 6 U.S. Cities

Rebecca A. London, Sebastian Castrechini, Katie Stokes-Guinan, Lisa Westrich, Martha Bleeker and Susanne James-Burdumy

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

Peter Cunningham, Kelly McKenzie and Erin Fries Taylor

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

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Carol Kuhns

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

Amang Sukasih and Donsig Jang

Evaluation of the Maryland Total Cost of Care Model: Implementation Report

Rachel Machta, Gregory Peterson, Jason Rotter, Kate Stewart, Shannon Heitkamp, Isabel Platt, Danielle Whicher, Keri Calkins, Keith Kranker, Linda Barterian and Nancy McCall

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

Family Engagement Impact Project (FEIP): Phase II Evaluation Report

Dana Petersen, Megan Shoji, Adam Dunn and Natasha Nicolai

The Impact of Healthy Harlem on the Body Mass Index and Weight Status of Adolescents after Two and Three Years

Martha Bleeker, James Mabli, Mary Kay Fox, Betina Jean-Louis and Marlene Fox

The 1999 National Survey of Local School-to-Work Partnerships: Data Summary

Lara Hulsey and Michelle Van Noy

Trajectories of the Home Learning Environment Across the First 5 Years: Associations with Children's Vocabulary and Literacy Skills at Prekindergarten

Eileen T. Rodriguez and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

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

Some Hospitals Are Falling Behind in Meeting 'Meaningful Use' Criteria and Could be Vulnerable to Penalties in 2015

Catherine M. DesRoches, Chantal Worzala and Scott Bates

Impact of Contingent Work on Subsequent Labor Force Participation and Wages of Workers with Psychiatric Disabilities

Judith A. Cook, Jane K. Burke-Miller and Dennis D. Grey

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

Medical Malpractice Liability Crisis Meets Markets Stress in Unexpected Places

Robert Berenson, Sylvia Kuo and Jessica H. May

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

John Gettens and Alexis D. Henry

Basing Health Care on Empirical Evidence

Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet and Stephanie Peterson

Responsible Fatherhood Programming: Two Approaches to Service Delivery

Heather Zaveri, Robin Dion and Scott Baumgartner

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

Danielle Whicher, Julia Alamillo, Lexi Ouellette and Breyon Williams

Time That Beneficiaries Spend Off the Rolls Due to Work and the Payments Generated for Employment Networks

David Stapleton, Jody Schimmel, Miriam Loewenberg and Sarah Prenovitz

Operating TANF: Opportunities and Challenges for Tribes and Tribal Consortia

Walter Hillabrant, Mack B. Rhoades, Jr. and Nancy Pindus

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

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

Karen Needels, Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

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

Sharonlyn Harrison, Anika Sandy-Hanson and Gina Freeman

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

Brian Goesling, Silvie Colman, Mindy Scott and Elizabeth Cook

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

Catherine McLaughlin

National Job Corps Study: Findings Using Administrative Earnings Records Data

Peter Z. Schochet, Sheena McConnell and John Burghardt

Indiana's Health Care Sector and Insurance Market: Summary Report

Deborah Chollet, Fabrice Smieliauskas, Rebecca Nyman and Andrea Staiti

The Integration of Latino Immigrants in the Rural United States

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

Changing Demography of Social Safety Net Programs

Colleen Heflin and Yumiko Aratani

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

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

Conducting Clinical Research Using Crowdsourced Convenience Samples

Jesse Chandler and Danielle Shapiro

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

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

Elevating Alumni Voices: Insights from 2014 and 2015 Graduates of the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

Sarah Hughes, Caroline Lauver and Isabel Krakoff

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

David J. Jones

Inside Online Charter Schools

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

Introduction to Contracting with D-SNPs

Jim Verdier, Alexandra Kruse and Rebecca Lester

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2017

Kathryn Cronquist and Sarah Lauffer

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

Steve Bruns

Factors Associated with School Meal Participation and the Relationship Between Different Participation Measures

Quinn Moore, Lara Hulsey and Michael Ponza

Analysis of the Characteristics of Medicare Advantage Plan Participation

Marsha Gold and Stephanie Peterson

Sustainability, Partnerships, and Teamwork in Health IT Implementation: Essential Findings from the Transforming Healthcare Quality Through IT Grants

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Grace Ferry, Rebecca Roper, Melanie Au, James Walker, J.B. Jones and Virginia Lerch

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 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

COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and Youth Unemployment During 2021

Hande Inanc and Megan Caruso

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

Linda C. Rosenberg and Ellen Eliason Kisker

Societal Costs of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Washington

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

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

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 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

Work Search Among Unemployment Insurance Claimants: An Investigation of Some Effects of State Rules and Enforcement

Walter Corson, Stuart Kerachsky and Ellen Eliason Kisker

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): 2006, Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Getting the Message Out: Disseminating Labor Market Information

Megan Hague Angus and Jillian Berk

Response to Comment on "Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science"

Jesse Chandler and Et. Al

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

Steven Glazerman and Dallas Dotter

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

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

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

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

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

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

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

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

Barbara Devaney, Anne Gordon and John Burghardt

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

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

The Equity Project Charter School: Impacts on Student Achievement

Joshua Furgeson, Moira McCullough, Clare Wolfendale and Brian Gill

Using Survey Data Sets to Study Homeschooling

Eric Isenberg

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Applicant Screen

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Understanding District-Charter Collaboration (Issue Brief)

Alyson Burnett, Moira McCullough and Christina Clark Tuttle

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

Annalisa Mastri and Jacob Hartog

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

Todd Honeycutt and Purvi Sevak

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 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

Money Follows the Person 2014 Annual Evaluation Report

Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Andrea Wysocki, Rebecca Coughlin and Susan R. Williams

Trends in Premiums, Cost-Sharing, and Benefits in Medicare+Choice Health Plans, 1999-2001

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

Replicate Variance Estimation for Combined Data of Independent Surveys

Donsig Jang and Amang Sukasih

Revisiting Employee Benefits Managers

Jon M. Thompson, Debra A. Draper and Robert E. Hurley

Evaluation of the Charleston Claimant Placement and Work Test Demonstration

Walter Corson, David Long and Walter Nicholson

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

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

Spotlight on Pennsylvania

Grace Anglin, Leslie Foster and Mynti Hossain

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

Data Across Sectors for Health Initiative: Formative Evaluation Report

So O'Neil, Colleen Staatz, Emily Hoe, Ravi Goyal and Eva Ward

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

Joyanne Cobb, David C. Wittenburg and Cara Stepanczuk

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Los Angeles Promise Neighborhood

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

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

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

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

Thomas Fraker, Arif Mamun and Lori Timmins

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

Silvie Colman

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

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

Coordinating and Improving Care for Dual Eligibles in Nursing Facilities: Current Obstacles and Pathways to Improvement

James M. Verdier

Channeling Evaluation Initial Research Design of the National-Long Term Care Demonstration

Peter Kemper, Robert Applebaum, Raymond J. Baxter, James J. Callahan, Jr., George J. Carcagno, Jon B. Christianson, Stephen L. Day, Thomas W. Grannemann, Jean Baldwin-Gorssman and Judith Wooldridge

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

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

Jung Y. Kim, Todd Honeycutt and Michaella Morzuch

Provider Engagement Toolkit

Nazihah Siddiqui, Sonya Streeter, Ethan Jacobs and Rumin Sarwar

How Much Does the Pre-K CLASS Relate to Children's Readiness for School Skills?

Nikki Aikens, Tutrang Nguyen and Jessica Harding