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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

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

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

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

Brian Goesling, Silvie Colman, Mindy Scott and Elizabeth Cook

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood

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

American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (AIAN FACES): 2021-22 Data Collection

Lizabeth Malone and Sara Bernstein

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

The Marriage Measures Guide of State-Level Statistics

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

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

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

Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Partnerships Between Employers and Health Plans

Patricia Collins Higgins, Melanie Au and Erin Fries Taylor

Teen Activities and Attitudes Study: Wave 1 Questionnaire

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

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

Sharonlyn Harrison, Anika Sandy-Hanson and Gina Freeman

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

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

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

Jesse Chandler and Et. Al

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

Esa Eslami and Karen Cunnyngham

LIFT: Implementation Findings from the Evaluation of Employment Coaching

Karen Gardiner, Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

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

Mary T. Moore

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

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

Joyanne Cobb, David Wittenburg and Cara Stepanczuk

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

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

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

Todd Honeycutt and Purvi Sevak

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 Integration of Latino Immigrants in the Rural United States

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

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

Walter Corson, Stuart Kerachsky and Ellen Eliason Kisker

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

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

Peter Cunningham, Kelly McKenzie and Erin Fries Taylor

Do Low-Income Students Have Equal Access to Effective Teachers? Evidence from 26 Districts (Final Report)

Eric Isenberg, Jeffrey Max, Philip Gleason, Matthew Johnson, Jonah Deutsch and Michael Hansen

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

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

Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

Money Follows the Person 2009 Annual Evaluation Report

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

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

Expanding Access to Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage

James Haven and Deborah Chollet

Evaluation of the Charleston Claimant Placement and Work Test Demonstration

Walter Corson, David Long and Walter Nicholson

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

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

Jacqueline Crowley, Betsy Keating and Heather Zaveri

Medical Malpractice Liability Crisis Meets Markets Stress in Unexpected Places

Robert Berenson, Sylvia Kuo and Jessica H. May

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

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

Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review’s Model Prioritization Process

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

Linda C. Rosenberg and Ellen Eliason Kisker

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

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

Karen Needels, Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

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

Joel Smith

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

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

James M. Verdier

Five Tips for Teaching Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education in Schools

Brian Goesling and Julia Alamillo

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

Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

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

Priyanka Anand

National Job Corps Study: Findings Using Administrative Earnings Records Data

Peter Z. Schochet, Sheena McConnell and John Burghardt

Revisiting Employee Benefits Managers

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

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

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

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

Sarah Hughes, Caroline Lauver and Isabel Krakoff

Movement of Children Between Medicaid and CHIP, 2005 to 2007

John L. Czajka

How Have Rural Hospitals Improved Their Viability?

Kimberly Neuman, Jeanette Bergeron and Anthony Mazzeo

Comparing Responses to the Race Question Asked Two Different Ways

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Medicare Beneficiaries and Health Plan Choice, 2000

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

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

Danielle Whicher, Julia Alamillo, Lexi Ouellette and Breyon Williams

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

Changes in Opioid Treatment Program Staffing from 2011 to 2016

Ellen Bouchery and Monica Farid

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

Measuring School Effectiveness in Memphis—Year 2

Liz Potamites, Duncan Chaplin, Eric Isenberg and Kevin Booker

2019 Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) and American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (AI/AN FACES): Questions from Program Director and Center Director Questionnaires about COVID-19

Mathematica

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

Rita Hamad and Matthew J. Niedzwiecki

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

Shanna Shulman and Margo Rosenbach

Learning About Preschool Curricula: PCER and Beyond

John M. Love

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

James D. Reschovsky and Eugene Rich

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

John L. Czajka and Carol Irvin

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

Review of the Literature on Administration and Policy Development for Medicaid Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

Justin S. White and Debra A. Draper

The Family Unification Program: A Housing Resource for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

M. Robin Dion, Rebecca Kleinman, Jackie Kauff and Amy Dworsky

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

Deborah Chollet, Fabrice Smieliauskas, Rebecca Nyman and Andrea Staiti

Employment Patterns Before Applying for Disability Insurance

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

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

Mary T. Moore and Michael Stavrianos

The Equity Project Charter School: Impacts on Student Achievement

Joshua Furgeson, Moira McCullough, Clare Wolfendale and Brian Gill

International Efforts to Serve Youth with Disabilities

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

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

Quinn Moore, Lara Hulsey and Michael Ponza

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

Barbara Devaney, Anne Gordon and John Burghardt

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

Gina Livermore, Purvi Sevak and Marisa Shenk

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

Annalisa Mastri and Jacob Hartog

Enhancing Information for State Health Policy

Penny Feldman, Marsha Gold and Karyen Chu

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

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Carol Kuhns

Work Incentives and Disincentives

Paul T. Decker

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

Mathematica

Data Across Sectors for Health Initiative: Formative Evaluation Report

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

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

Amang Sukasih and Donsig Jang

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

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

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

James M. Verdier

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Silva, Allison McKie and Philip Gleason

Learn, Innovate, Improve (LI²): Lessons from Arapahoe County’s Efforts to Increase Engagement with Colorado Works

Jody Schimmel Hyde, Maureen Alexander, Celeste Roybal and Dale Nussbaum

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

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

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