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

Steven Glazerman and Dallas Dotter

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

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

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

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

State Regulation and Initiatives to Expand Small Group Coverage

Deborah Chollet

Evaluation of Support for Using Student Data to Inform Teachers’ Instruction—Appendices

Philip Gleason, Sarah Crissey, Greg Chojnacki, Marykate Zukiewicz, Tim Silva, Sarah Costelloe and Fran O'Reilly

International Efforts to Serve Youth with Disabilities

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

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

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

Rita Hamad and Matthew J. Niedzwiecki

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

Does Paid Family Leave Improve Household Economic Security Following a Birth? Evidence from California

Alexandra Boyle Stanczyk

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

Small Rural Hospitals: A Decade of Progress, an Uncertain Future. Final Report on the Grant Program for Rural Health Care Transition

Valerie Cheh

Measuring a Changing Nation: Modern Methods for the 2000 Census

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

Supporting Home Visitors in Evidence-Based Programs: Experience of EBHV Grantees

Brandon Coffee-Borden and Diane Paulsell

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

Todd Honeycutt and Purvi Sevak

Inside Online Charter Schools

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

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

Esa Eslami and Karen Cunnyngham

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

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

Nuria Diaz-Tena and Frank Potter

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

How Five States Addressed Mental Health "Boundaries" in Medicaid Managed Care

Cheri Vogel

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

Danielle Whicher, Julia Alamillo, Lexi Ouellette and Breyon Williams

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2017

Kathryn Cronquist and Sarah Lauffer

Work Incentives and Disincentives

Paul T. Decker

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

Jeanne Bellotti, Brittany English and Alicia Harrington

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

Comparing Responses to the Race Question Asked Two Different Ways

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Medicare Chronic Care Management Services Payment: Implications for States Serving Dually Eligible Individuals

Julie Stone

Learning About Preschool Curricula: PCER and Beyond

John M. Love

Nutrition Education Research Brief: Message Framing, Use of Interactive Technology to Tailor Messages, and Intervention Intensity

Mary Kay Fox, Charlotte Hanson and Ronette Briefel

Measuring Teacher and School Value Added in Oklahoma, 2013-2014 School Year

Elias Walsh, Albert Y. Liu and Dallas Dotter

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

Dual Eligibles: Opportunities and Challenges

James M. Verdier

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

Nikki Aikens, Tutrang Nguyen and Jessica Harding

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

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

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

James M. Verdier

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

How Oklahoma Laid the Foundation for Its Marriage Initiative

Debra A. Strong

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

Reporting What Readers Need to Know About Education Research Measures: A Guide

Kimberly Boller and Ellen Eliason Kisker

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

Jacqueline Crowley, Betsy Keating and Heather Zaveri

What Have we Learned about SSA and VR Program Interactions?

David R. Mann

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

David J. Jones

Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review’s Model Prioritization Process

Various Authors

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

Money Follows the Person 2009 Annual Evaluation Report

Carol Irvin, Debra Lipson, Sam Simon, Audra Wenzlow and Jeffrey Ballou

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

Using Survey Data Sets to Study Homeschooling

Eric Isenberg

WIC Turns 35: Program Effectiveness and Future Directions

Barbara Devaney

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

Working Together for Children and Families: Findings from the National Descriptive Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships

Patricia Del Grosso, Jaime Thomas, Libby Makowsky, Michael Levere, NIckie Fung and Diane Paulsell

Replicate Variance Estimation for Combined Data of Independent Surveys

Donsig Jang and Amang Sukasih

CHIPRA Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: Cross Cutting Report on Findings from Ten State Case Studies

Ian Hill, Sheila Hoag, Sarah Benatar, Cara Orfield, Embry Howell, Victoria Peebles, Brigette Courtot and Margaret Wilkinson

Teen Activities and Attitudes Study: Wave 1 Questionnaire

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

John L. Czajka

Designing and Conducting Home Visiting Evaluations in Tribal Communities: Takeaways from the HomVEE Tribal Review

Andrea Mraz Esposito, Emily Sama-Miller and Elizabeth Davenport Pollock

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

Sarah Hughes, Caroline Lauver and Isabel Krakoff

LIFT: Implementation Findings from the Evaluation of Employment Coaching

Karen Gardiner, Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

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

Linda C. Rosenberg and Ellen Eliason Kisker

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

Annalisa Mastri and Jacob Hartog

Evaluation of the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Program in 2011: Beneficiaries Served, Services Provided, and Program Costs

Jody Schimmel, Sara Prenovitz, Gina Livermore and Alex Bryce

Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa, Final Evaluation

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

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

Supporting Student Engagement in Remote and Hybrid Learning Environments

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid‑Atlantic

Movement of Children Between Medicaid and CHIP, 2005 to 2007

John L. Czajka

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

Rachel Miller, Purvi Sevak and Todd Honeycutt

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

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Carol Kuhns

Patient Safety, 2000 and 2001

Arnold Chen

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

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

Erin Weir Lakhmani

Data Across Sectors for Health Initiative: Formative Evaluation Report

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

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

Timothy Lake and Margo Rosenbach

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

Impacts of Actually Connecting to the Electric Grid in Tanzania (In Focus Brief)

Ali Protik, Duncan Chaplin, Arif Mamun, John Schurrer, Divya Vohra and Kristine Bos

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

Mary T. Moore and Michael Stavrianos

Health Care Coverage and Access for Children in Low-Income Families: Stakeholder Perspectives from Texas

Leslie Foster

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

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

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

Dana Petersen, Megan Shoji, Adam Dunn and Natasha Nicolai

Surveying Current and Former TANF Recipients in Iowa

Rita A. Stapulonis, Martha D. Kovac and Thomas M. Fraker

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

Gina Livermore, Purvi Sevak and Marisa Shenk

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

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

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

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

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

COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and Youth Unemployment During 2021

Hande Inanc and Megan Caruso

Privatization in Practice: Case Studies of Contracting for TANF Case Management

Sheena McConnell, Andrew Burwick, Irma Perez-Johnson and Pamela Winston

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

Subjects' Views of Obligations to Ensure Post-Trial Access to Drugs, Care, and Information: Qualitative Results from the Experiences of Participants in Clinical Trials (EPIC) Study

N. Sofaer, C. Thiessen, S.D. Goold, J. Ballou, K.A. Getz, G. Koski, R.A. Krueger and J.S. Weissman

Analysis of the Characteristics of Medicare Advantage Plan Participation

Marsha Gold and Stephanie Peterson

The Medicaid Analytic eXtract 2004 Chartbook

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

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

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood

Andrea Mraz Esposito, Sarah Osborn, Lara Hulsey, Kimberly Boller and Celina Kamler

Conducting Clinical Research Using Crowdsourced Convenience Samples

Jesse Chandler and Danielle Shapiro

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

Responsible Fatherhood Programming: Two Approaches to Service Delivery

Heather Zaveri, Robin Dion and Scott Baumgartner

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

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

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

15-Site Randomized Trial of Coordinated Care in Medicare Fee-for-Service

Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

A Profile of Kindergarten Readiness in White Center: Fall 2007

Kimberly Boller, Diane Paulsell, Nikki Aikens, Liz Potamites, Barbara Carlson and Martha Kovac