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

Rita Stapulonis, Shawn Marsh and Jason Markesich

Medical Malpractice Liability Crisis Meets Markets Stress in Unexpected Places

Robert Berenson, Sylvia Kuo and Jessica H. May

WIC Turns 35: Program Effectiveness and Future Directions

Barbara Devaney

Getting the Message Out: Disseminating Labor Market Information

Megan Hague Angus and Jillian Berk

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

Joel Smith

Ewing Marion Kauffman School Evaluation Impact Report: Year 3

Matthew Johnson, Eric Lundquist, Alicia Demers, Cleo Jacobs Johnson and Claudia Gentile

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

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

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

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 1999

Allen L. Schirm and Laura A. Castner

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

Julie Stone

Dual Eligibles in Nursing Facilities and Other Long-Term Care Settings

James M. Verdier

Medicare Advantage 2014 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

Employment Patterns Before Applying for Disability Insurance

Kara Contreary, Todd Honeycutt, Michelle Stegman Bailey and Joseph Mastrianni

Prescription Drugs for Children with Special Health Care Needs in Commercial Managed Care: Patterns of Use and Cost, 1999-2001

Henry T. Ireys, Jennifer Humensky, Steven Wickstrom and Paula Rheault

The Equity Project Charter School: Impacts on Student Achievement

Joshua Furgeson, Moira McCullough, Clare Wolfendale and Brian Gill

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

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

Money Follows the Person 2009 Annual Evaluation Report

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

Conducting Clinical Research Using Crowdsourced Convenience Samples

Jesse Chandler and Danielle Shapiro

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

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

LIFT: Implementation Findings from the Evaluation of Employment Coaching

Karen Gardiner, Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

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

Enhancing Information for State Health Policy

Penny Feldman, Marsha Gold and Karyen Chu

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

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

How Have Rural Hospitals Improved Their Viability?

Kimberly Neuman, Jeanette Bergeron and Anthony Mazzeo

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

National Job Corps Study: Findings Using Administrative Earnings Records Data

Peter Z. Schochet, Sheena McConnell and John Burghardt

Developing Alternative Payment Models: Key Considerations and Lessons Learned from Years of Collaboration with CMS

Mary Laschober, Eugene Rich, Timothy Lake, Angela Merrill and Candace Natoli

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

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

Tricia Collins, Leslie Foster, Dana Petersen and Rachel Miller

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

COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and Youth Unemployment During 2021

Hande Inanc and Megan Caruso

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

Brandon Coffee-Borden and Diane Paulsell

Evaluation of the Charleston Claimant Placement and Work Test Demonstration

Walter Corson, David Long and Walter Nicholson

Changing Demography of Social Safety Net Programs

Colleen Heflin and Yumiko Aratani

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

Lindsay Cattell and Julie Bruch

Getting Along or Going Along? Health Plan-Provider Contract Showdowns Subside

Justin S. White, Robert E. Hurley and Bradley C. Strunk

Logistic Propensity Models to Adjust for Nonresponse in Physician Surveys

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

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

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

James M. Verdier

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

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

Amang Sukasih and Donsig Jang

Medicare Beneficiaries and Health Plan Choice, 2000

Marsha Gold, Michael Sinclair, Mia Cahill, Natalie Justh and Jessica Mittler

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

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

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

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

Erin Fries Taylor and Marsha Gold

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

Valerie Cheh

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

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

Timothy Lake and Margo Rosenbach

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

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

The Marriage Measures Guide of State-Level Statistics

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

Understanding Enrollment Trends and Participant Characteristics of the Medicaid Buy-In Program, 2003-2004

William E. Black and Henry T. Ireys

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

Rachel Miller, Purvi Sevak and Todd Honeycutt

The Medicaid Analytic eXtract 2004 Chartbook

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

Measuring Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Efforts to Improve Data Collection

Patricia Collins Higgins and Erin Fries Taylor

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

Erin Weir Lakhmani

Operating TANF: Opportunities and Challenges for Tribes and Tribal Consortia

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

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

Slow Change in the Employment Services Market: The Early Years of Ticket to Work

Craig Thornton and Paul O'Leary

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

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

Nikki Aikens, Tutrang Nguyen and Jessica Harding

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

Hospital Acquisition of Physician Groups: On the Road to Value-Based or Higher-Priced Care?

James D. Reschovsky and Eugene Rich

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

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

Silvie Colman

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

Mary Kay Fox, Charlotte Hanson and Ronette Briefel

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

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

Gina Livermore, Purvi Sevak and Marisa Shenk

Data Across Sectors for Health Initiative: Formative Evaluation Report

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

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

Rita Hamad and Matthew J. Niedzwiecki

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

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

Targeted Help for the Hard-to-Employ: Outcomes of Two Philadelphia Welfare-to-Work Programs (Presentation)

Michelle VanNoy and Irma Perez-Johnson

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

Tim Silva, Allison McKie and Philip Gleason

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

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

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

Increasing Access to Electricity in Liberia

Various Authors

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

Simulation of Medicaid and SCHIP Eligibility: Implications of Findings from 10 States

John L. Czajka and Carol Irvin

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Los Angeles Promise Neighborhood

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

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

Esa Eslami and Karen Cunnyngham

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

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

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

Jeffrey Ballou, Eugene Rich and Matthew Kehn

Acculturation Differences in Communicating Information About Child Mental Health Between Latino Parents and Primary Care Providers

Benjamin Lê Cook, Jonathan D. Brown, Stephen Loder and Larry Wissow

The Importance of Collaboration in Comparative Effectiveness Research

Laura D. Kimmey and Eugene Rich

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

Barbara Devaney, Anne Gordon and John Burghardt

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

Karen Needels, Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2017

Kathryn Cronquist and Sarah Lauffer

Systems Model of Physician Professionalism in Practice

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

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

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

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

Sarah Hughes, Caroline Lauver and Isabel Krakoff

Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Factsheet: Cost and Market Impact Reviews

Mathematica

Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa, Final Evaluation

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

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