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A User's Guide to the Database of Publicly Available Medicaid and CHIP Performance Measure Reports

Jessica Nysenbaum, Alyssa Crawford, Winnie Wang, Erin Taylor, Maggie Colby and Cheryl Camillo

Conducting Randomized Trials in School Settings: P4K

David Myers and Donna Durno

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Time Sheet

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Educating New Members of Medicare+Choice Plans About Their Health Insurance Options: Does the National Medicare Education Program Make a Difference?

Merrile Sing, Beth Stevens, Anna E. Cook, Michael Sinclair and Julia Ingels

A Spotlight on Professional Development in Head Start: FACES Spring 2017, Appendix Tables

Jessica F. Harding, Emily Moiduddin, Lizabeth Malone, Judy Cannon, Louisa Tarullo and Nikki Aikens

Cities Expanding Health Access for Children and Families

Michaella Morzuch and Sheila Hoag

Medicare Value-Based Purchasing: Physician Voluntary Reporting Program (PVRP)

Myles Maxfield

Welfare and Immigration Reforms Unintended Side Effects for Medicaid

Marilyn Ellwood Leighton Ku

Data Management (About Us)

Mathematica Policy Research

Health Insurance and Health Care Access Before and After SSDI Entry

Gina Livermore, David Stapleton and Henry Claypool

How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Improving Perinatal Care?

Ellen Albritton and Dana Petersen

Medicaid Value Program: Evaluation Findings

Marsha Gold, Dominick Esposito, Erin Fries Taylor and Kristin Andrews

How Do Working-Age People with Disabilities Spend Their Time? New Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Priyanka Anand and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Lessons from LAC Reads: EducAcción Promising Reading Intervention in Honduras

Mathematica

Getting Your Message Heard: Simple and Successful Dissemination

Amy Farb, Jean Knab, Joanne Pfleiderer and Amy Berridge

The Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Enrollee Outcomes One Year After Program Entry

Thomas M. Fraker, Dan M. Levy, Robert B. Olsen and Rita A. Stapulonis

Socioeconomic Differences in Reading Trajectories: The Contribution of Family, Neighborhood, and School Contexts

Nikki L. Aikens and Oscar Barbarin

Why Does Health Insurance Cost So Much?

Deborah Chollet

Reducing Mode Effects in Mark All That Apply Questions

Geraldine M. Mooney and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Are There “Hot Spots†of Primary Impairments among New SSDI Awardees – and Do We Know Why?

Jody Schimmel Hyde, Anna Hill, Jonathan Schwabish and Aaron R. Williams

Estimating Teacher and School Effectiveness in Pittsburgh: Value-Added Modeling and Results

Stephen Lipscomb, Brian Gill, Kevin Booker and Matthew Johnson

Employment Experiences of Welfare Recipients Who Find Jobs: Is Targeting Possible? Volume I

Anu Rangarajan, Peter Schochet and Dexter Chu

Creating and Maintaining Partner Buy-in and Commitment to Sharing Data (Lessons from the Field)

Connie Schlittler

Medicaid RX Drug Use and Expenditures Among Medicaid and Medicare Dual Eligibles in 2001: Implications for Medicare Part D

James Verdier, Dominick Esposito, Ann Bagchi, Deo Bencio, Licia Gaber and Myoung Kim

Marriage Disincentives Facing Low-Income Parents: Designing and Testing Policies to Reduce Them (presentation)

Sheena McConnell, Robert G. Wood and Barbara Goldman

Summer Feeding Design Study (Executive Summary)

Anne Gordon and Ronette Briefel

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years

Hanley Chiang, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann, Kristin Hallgren, Paul Burkander and Alison Wellington

Regional Partnership Grant Program Cross-Site Evaluation Design Report

Debra A. Strong, Diane Paulsell, Russell Cole, Sarah A. Avellar, Angela V. D'Angelo, Juliette Henke and Rosalind E. Keith

Registered Apprenticeships for Community Health Workers and Dually Certified Peer Recovery Specialist Community Health Workers

Colleen Staatz

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 5 Transcript: SBA)

Brittany Borg, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

National Job Corps Study: The Short-Term Impacts of Job Corps on Participants, Employment, and Related Outcomes

Peter Z. Schochet, John Burghardt and Steven Glazerman

Internal and External Validity of the Comparative Interrupted Time-Series Design: A Meta-Analysis

Jared Coopersmith, Thomas D. Cook, Jelena Zurovac, Duncan Chaplin and Lauren V. Forrow

Coordinating Care in the Medical Neighborhood: Critical Components and Available Mechanisms

Erin Fries Taylor, Timothy Lake, Jessica Nysenbaum, Greg Peterson and David Meyers

Early Interventions to Prevent Disability for Workers with Mental Health Conditions: Impacts from the DMIE

Gilbert Gimm, Denise Hoffman and Henry T. Ireys

Association of Conventional Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Cardiovascular Disease After Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Analysis of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study

Eirin B. Haug, Julie Horn, Amanda R. Markovitz, Abigail Fraser, Bjørnar Klykken, Håvard Dalen, Lars J. Vatten, Pål R. Romundstad, Janet W. Rich-Edwards and Bjørn O. Åsvold

From Concept to Policy: 10 Years After the Call for a US Center for Comparative Effectiveness Information

Eugene C. Rich

Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefit Triggers

Walter Corson and Anu Rangarajan

Do Suspensions Affect Student Outcomes?

Johanna Lacoe and Matthew P. Steinberg

Practice†Site†Level Measures of Primary Care Comprehensiveness and Their Associations with Patient Outcomes

Ann S. O’Malley, Eugene C. Rich, Lisa Shang, Tyler Rose, Arkadipta Ghosh, Dmitriy Poznyak, Deborah Peikes and Matt Niedzwiecki

Designing an Exchange: A Toolkit for State Policymakers

Report from the study panel on Health Insurance Exchanges created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of which Deborah Chollet is a Member

A Year in Region XI Head Start: Children's Growth and Development from the American Indian and Alaska Native Family and Child Experiences Survey 2015 (AI/AN FACES 2015)

Sara Bernstein, Lizabeth Malone and the AI/AN FACES 2015 Workgroup

Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations Program Snapshot; Goal4 It!â„¢

Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

Measuring School and Teacher Value Added in Charleston County School District, 2014-2015 School Year

Alexandra Resch and Jonah Deutsch

Setting Rates for Medicaid Managed Behavioral Health Care: Lessons Learned

Sheila Hoag, Judith Wooldridge and Craig Thornton

Is Geriatric Care Associated with Less Emergency Department Use?

Laura P. D'Arcy, Sally C. Stearns, Marisa E. Domino, Laura C. Hanson and Morris Weinberger

Why Have Divorce Rates Fallen? The Role of Women's Age at Marriage

Dana Rotz

Targeting Early Intervention to Workers Who Need Help to Stay in the Labor Force

David Stapleton, Robert Burns, Benjamin Doornink, Mary Harris, Robert Anfield, Winthrop Cashdollar, Brian Gifford and Kevin Ufier

Survey of Early Head Start Programs

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Methods for Identifying AIDS Cases in Medicare and Medicaid Claims Data

Craig Thornton, Nancy Fasciano, Barbara J. Turner, Anne Cherlow and Deo S. Bencio

Treating Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Shanna Shulman, Henry Ireys and Stephanie Peterson

Medicaid Analytic eXtract 2008 Encounter Data Chartbook

Rosemary Borck, Ashley Zlatinov and Susan Williams

Health System Participation in Medicare Alternative Payment Models in 2018

Danielle Whicher, Rachel Machta, David Jones, Michael F. Furukawa and Eugene Rich

Progress and Challenges in Developing Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems in the Round 1 Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge States (In Focus Brief)

Gretchen Kirby, Pia Caronongan, Andrea Mraz Esposito, Lauren Murphy, Megan Shoji, Patricia Del Grosso, Wamaitha Kiambuthi, Melissa Clark and Lisa Dragoset

Fiscal Austerity and the Transition to Twenty-First Century Disability Policy: A Road Map

David R. Mann and David C. Stapleton

Achievement Effects of Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings from First Graders in 39 Schools

Roberto Agodini, Barbara Harris, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Sheila Heaviside, Timothy Novak and Robert Murphy

"To Improve Is to Change": Improving U.S. Healthcare

John R. Feussner, Eugene Z. Oddone and Eugene C. Rich

The Health Quality Partners Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Nancy Archibald, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol

What Do Coalitions Need to Counter Preemption: A Strategic Assessment of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Preemption Work

Drew Koleros, Lisa Schottenfeld, Lello Guluma, Michelle Sou and So O'Neil

Family Resources and Parenting Quality: Links to Children's Cognitive Development Across the First 3 Years

Julieta Lugo-Gil and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

A COVID-19 Primer: Analyzing Health Care Claims, Administrative Data, and Public Use Files

Alex Bohl and Michelle Roozeboom-Baker

How Seniors Learn

Beth Stevens

Wrapping Around Medicare: The Role of Medicaid

James M. Verdier

SoonerCare Managed Care History and Performance: 1115 Waiver Evaluation

James Verdier, Margaret Colby, Debra Lipson, Samuel Simon, Christal Stone, Thomas Bell, Vivian Byrd, Mindy Lipson and Victoria Pérez

National Experimental Evaluation of Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs: Study Highlights

Kenneth Fortson, Dana Rotz, Paul Burkander, Annalisa Mastri, Peter Schochet, Linda Rosenberg, Sheena McConnell and Ronald D'Amico

Aspects of Mental Health Communication Skills Training that Predict Parent and Child Outcomes in Pediatric Primary Care

Lawrence Wissow, Anne Gadomski, Debra Roter, Susan Larson, Barry Lewis and Jonathan Brown

A Profile of Medicaid Institutional and Community-Based Long-Term Care Service Use and Expenditures Among the Aged and Disabled Using MAX 2002

Audra T. Wenzlow, Robert Schmitz and Kathy Shepperson

When Elementary Schools Stay Open Late: Results from The National Evaluation of the 21st-Century Community Learning Centers Program (Journal Article)

Susanne James-Burdumy, Mark Dynarski and John Deke

Medicaid Analytic Extract Date of Death (MAX DOD) Master File 2009, Update

Julie Sykes and Shinu Verghese

Consequences of Inaccurate Medicaid Administrative Data on Survey Response Rates and Medicaid Health Policy Issues: Survey Methodology

Anne B. Ciemnecki and Karen A. CyBulski

Educational Achievement and Black/White Inequality

Jonathan E. Jacobson, Cara Olsen, Jennifer King Rice, Stephen Sweetland and John Ralph

Error Rates in Measuring Teacher and School Performance Based on Student Test Score Gains

Peter Z. Schochet and Hanley S. Chiang

Mathematica Partners with the William Penn Foundation to Study Informal Child Care

Mathematica

Using Health IT: Eight Quality Improvement Stories

Melanie Au, Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Grace Anglin and Andrew Clarkwest

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): PROMISE 60-Month Sampling and Survey Plan

Holly Matulewicz, Eric Grau, Arif Mamun and Gina Livermore

Supporting Students with Health Conditions in District of Columbia Public Schools

Martha Bleeker and Delara Aharpour

Liberia Energy Project: Evaluation Design for the Water Pipeline Sub-Activity

Poonam Ravindranath, Paolo Abarcar, Cullen Seaton, Candace Miller and Arif Mamun

What Covering Kids and Families Tells Us About SCHIP

Judith Wooldridge

State Options for Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health Care

Allison Hamblin, James Verdier and Melanie Au

Current and Emerging Issues in Medicaid Risk-Based Managed Care: Insights from an Expert Roundtable

Marsha Gold and Julia Paradise

Regional Collaboration to Create a High-Skilled Workforce: Evaluation of the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge Grants

Megan Hague Angus, Jeanne Bellotti, Brittany English, Stephanie Boraas, Kevin Hollenbeck and Sarah Osborn

Enhanced Primary Care Case Management Programs in Medicaid: Issues and Options for States (Professional Paper)

James M. Verdier, Vivian Byrd and Christal Stone

The External Review of Job Corps: Directions for Future Research

Joanne Lee, Peter Z. Schochet and Jillian Berk

Promoting Health, Preventing Chronic Disease, and Fighting Hunger: Assessment of USDA Food Assistance

Mary Kay Fox

Association of Texas Senate Bill 8 with Requests for Self-Managed Medication Abortion

Abigail R. A. Aiken, Jennifer Starling, James G. Scott and Rebecca Gomperts

Quality in Home-Based Child Care: Summary of Existing Measures and Indicators

Elizabeth Doran, Ann Li, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Jasmine Forde, Jaimie Orland, Marina Ragonese-Barnes, Nathan Mix, Natalie Reid and Ashley Kopack Klein

Ten†Year Cardiovascular Disease Risk Trajectories by Obstetric History: A Longitudinal Study in the Norwegian HUNT Study

Abigail Fraser, Amanda R. Markovitz, Eirin B. Haug, Julie Horn, Pål Richard Romundstad, Håvard Dalen, Janet Rich†Edwards and Bjørn Olav Åsvold

Liberia Energy Project: Evaluation Design for the Liberia Electricity Corporation Training Activity

Paolo Abarcar, Poonam Ravindranath, Cullen Seaton, Candace Miller and Arif Mamun

Screening Approaches for Determining the Language of Assessment for Dual Language Learners: Evidence from Head Start and a Universal Preschool Initiative

Nikki Aikens, Jerry West, Kelsey McKee, Emily Moiduddin, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Yange Xue

How States Can Monitor Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan Performance: A Guide to Using CMS Data Resources

Danielle Chelminsky

Employment Support for the Transition to Retirement

David C. Stapleton and Jody Schimmel Hyde

Evaluation of Health Care Innovation Awards (HCIA): Primary Care Redesign Programs, Second Annual Report, Volume I: Synthesis Report

Lorenzo Moreno, Boyd Gilman, Greg Peterson, Catherine DesRoches, Sheila Hoag, Linda Barterian, Laura Blue, Katharine Bradley, Emily Ehrlich, Kristin Geonnotti, Lauren Hula, Keith Kranker, Rumin Sarwar, Rachel Shapiro, KeriAnn Wells, Joseph Zickafoose, Sandi Nelson, Kate Stewart and Frank Yoon

Millennium Challenge Corporation's Electricity Transmission and Distribution Line-Extension Activity in Tanzania: Qualitative Evaluation, Appendix D

Candace Miller, John Schurrer, Nicholas Redel, Arif Mamun and Duncan Chaplin

New Interactive Data Visualization Tool Tracking Youth Unemployment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

The Impacts on College Enrollment of a Charter Network Serving Disadvantaged Students: Evidence from KIPP Middle School Lotteries

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Maria Bartlett, Thomas Coen and Philip Gleason

Behavioral Economic Insights on Index Insurance Design

Michael Carter, Ghada Elabed and Elena Serfilippi

Self-Regulation Training Approaches and Resources to Improve Staff Capacity for Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth: Final Report

Scott Baumgartner, Aly Frei, Diane Paulsell, Mindy Herman-Stahl, Rebecca Dunn and Chelsea Yamamoto

Money Follows the Person Demonstration: Overview of State Grantee Progress, July to December 2013

Eric Morris, Bailey G. Orshan, Noelle-Denny Brown, Rebecca SweetlLester, Matthew Kehn, Victoria Peebles, Susan R. Williams and Brynn Hagen

Quality of Care for Adults in Medicaid: Findings from the 2015 Adult Core Set (Chart Pack)

The program team is led by Mathematica Policy Research and in collaboration with the National Committee for Quality Assurance Center for Health Care Strategies.

Youth with Disabilities at the Transition Crossroads: Employment and SSA Outcomes after Seeking VR Services

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Allison Thompkins

The CorSolutions Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Karen Sautter, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Sherry Aliotta, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol