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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

Implementing a Home Visiting Model in Tribal Communities: Takeaways from the HomVEE Tribal Review

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

COVID-19 and Youth Unemployment by Race and Ethnicity

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

Data Across Sectors for Health Initiative: Formative Evaluation Report

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

Systems Model of Physician Professionalism in Practice

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

Factors Associated with Use of an Online Telemedicine Service to Access Self-Managed Medical Abortion in the US

Abigail R. A. Aiken, Jennifer E. Starling and Rebecca Gomperts

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on the City University of New York's Project

Thomas Fraker, Alison Black, Joseph Broadus, Arif Mamun, Michelle Manno, John Martinez, Reanin McRoberts, Anu Rangarajan and Debbie Reed

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

Nikki Aikens, Tutrang Nguyen and Jessica Harding

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

Erin Weir Lakhmani

Performance Measurement for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Modernization Initiatives: Individual State Findings

Kathleen Keefe, Emily Sama-Miller, Laura Castner, Maura Bardos, Elizabeth Clary, Sarah Wissell and Larry Vittoriano

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

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

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

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

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

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

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

Rita Stapulonis, Shawn Marsh and Jason Markesich

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

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

John Gettens and Alexis D. Henry

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

Sharonlyn Harrison, Anika Sandy-Hanson and Gina Freeman

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

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

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

Jesse Chandler and Et. Al

The Integration of Latino Immigrants in the Rural United States

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

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

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

Development of the Medicaid Analytic Extract Enrollee Master (MAXEM) File, 2005 and 2006

John L. Czajka, Audra Wenzlow and Julie Sykes

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

Brandon Coffee-Borden and Diane Paulsell

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

Joel Smith

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

Dana Petersen, Megan Shoji, Adam Dunn and Natasha Nicolai

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

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

Michelle VanNoy and Irma Perez-Johnson

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

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

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

Esa Eslami and Karen Cunnyngham

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

Mary T. Moore

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

Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review’s Model Prioritization Process

Various Authors

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

Craig Thornton and Paul O'Leary

Employment Patterns Before Applying for Disability Insurance

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

Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Demonstration: Data Set

Walter Corson, Paul Decker, Shari Miller Dunstan and Stuart Kerachsky

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

Jung Y. Kim, Todd Honeycutt and Michaella Morzuch

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

Measuring School Effectiveness in Memphis—Year 2

Liz Potamites, Duncan Chaplin, Eric Isenberg and Kevin Booker

Evaluation Design Report for the Georgia Improving General Education Quality Project's School Rehabilitation Activity

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Caroline Lauver, Leigh Linden and Matt Sloan

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

Gina Livermore, Purvi Sevak and Marisa Shenk

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

Societal Costs of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Washington

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

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

Lindsay Cattell and Julie Bruch

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

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

Understanding District-Charter Collaboration (Issue Brief)

Alyson Burnett, Moira McCullough and Christina Clark Tuttle

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

How Have Rural Hospitals Improved Their Viability?

Kimberly Neuman, Jeanette Bergeron and Anthony Mazzeo

Evaluation of the Charleston Claimant Placement and Work Test Demonstration

Walter Corson, David Long and Walter Nicholson

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

Cheri Vogel

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

Catherine McLaughlin

Reliance Healthcare's Emergency Department Care Coordination Program

Bess Fleischman, Natalie Graves and Sonya Streeter

Peer Effects on Children’s Expressive Vocabulary Development Using Conceptual Scoring in Linguistically Diverse Preschools

Sally Atkins-Burnett, Yange Xue and Nikki Aikens

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

Lizabeth Malone and Sara Bernstein

Review of International Evidence on the Cost of Disability

David Stapleton, Ali Protik and Christal Stone

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

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

Working Toward Solutions for Integration: Updates from Guidance and Proposed Rules (Presentation)

Nancy Archibald, Erin Weir Lakhmani and Michelle Herman Soper

Integrating Latino Immigrants in New Rural Destinations

Heather Koball, Randy Capps, William Kandel, Jamila Henderson and Everett Henderson

Work Incentives and Disincentives

Paul T. Decker

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

Timothy Lake and Margo Rosenbach

Impact on Family and Work

Shanna Shulman, Henry Ireys and Stephanie Peterson

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

Thomas Fraker, Arif Mamun and Lori Timmins

Why Dually Eligible Beneficiaries Stay or Leave Integrated Care Plans

Debra Lipson, Laura Kimmey, Danielle Chelminsky, Caroline Margiotta, Alena Tourtellotte and Erin Weir Lakhmani

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

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

Increasing Access to Electricity in Liberia

Various Authors

Variation in Risk-Standardized Rates and Causes of Unplanned Hospital Visits Within 7 Days of Hospital Outpatient Surgery

Mayur M. Desai, Cheryl K. Zogg, Isuru Ranasinghe, Craig S. Parzynski, Zhenqiu Lin, Marianna Gorbaty, Angela Merrill, Harlan M. Krumholz and Elizabeth E. Drye

Using Comparative Effectiveness Research: Information Alone Won't Lead to Successful Health Care Reform

Dominick Esposito, Arnold Chen, Margaret Gerteis and Timothy Lake

Risk of Workforce Exit Due to Disability: State Differences in 2003–2016

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Ignacio Martinez and Mariel Finucane

Payment Rate Comparison Tool User Guide

Bridget Bernick

Long-Term Impact Evaluation of the Malawi Wellness and Agriculture for Life Advancement Program

Ariel BenYisahy, Kristen Velyvis, Katherine Nolan, Lila Khatiwada, Carrie Dolan, Danice Brown Guzmán, Tom Purekal, Arif Mamun and Sara Wilf

Variations in Classroom Language Environments of Preschool Children Who Are Low Income and Linguistically Diverse

Brook Sawyer, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Lia Sandilos, Carol Scheffner Hammer, Lisa Lopez and Clancy Blair

Usage of Practices Promoted by School Improvement Grants

Lisa Dragoset, Susanne James-Burdumy, Kristin Hallgren, Irma Perez-Johnson, Mariesa Herrmann, Christina Tuttle, Megan Hague Angus, Rebecca Herman, Matthew Murray, Courtney Tanenbaum and Cheryl Graczewski

Do Carrots Work Better than Sticks? Results from the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration

Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer and Robert G. Wood

Health Information Technology in the Workplace: Findings from a 2010 National Survey of Registered Nurses

Catherine M. DesRoches, Paola Miralles, Peter Buerhaus, Robert Hess and Karen Donelan

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 3 Transcript: CNCS)

Mary Hyde, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

What Makes for a Well-Designed, Well-Implemented Impact Study

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

Montefiore Accountable Care Organization's Provider Engagement Strategy (Case Study)

Ethan Jacobs

Raising the Bar: Impacts and Implementation of the New Heights Program for Expectant and Parenting Teens in Washington, DC

Subuhi Asheer, Paul Burkander, John Deke, Julie Worthington and Susan Zief

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Panel Regarding the Use of Incentive Payments and the Evaluation Design

Thomas Fraker and Todd Honeycutt

Building College and Career Pathways for High School Students: Youth CareerConnect, Impact Findings Report

Nan Maxwell, Jeanne Bellotti, Peter Schochet, Paul Burkander, Emilyn Whitesell, Erin Dillon, Hande Inanc, Christian Geckeler and Raquel González

Implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Momentum Is Increasing After a Modest Start

Margo Rosenbach, Marilyn Ellwood, John Czajka, Carol Irvin, Wendy Coupé and Brian Quinn

Native Culture and Language in the Classroom Observation (NCLCO)

Jessica Barnes-Najor, Meryl Barofsky, Sara Bernstein, Lana Garcia, Laura Hoard, Lizabeth Malone, Laura McKechnie, Ethan Petticrew, Christine Sims and Allison Walker

Diet Quality of American School-Age Children by School Lunch Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004

Nancy Cole and Mary Kay Fox

The Effects of Girl-Friendly Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso (Working Paper)

Harounan Kazianga, Dan Levy, Leigh L. Linden and Matt Sloan

Reducing Job Loss among Workers with New Health Problems

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Jennifer Christian and David Stapleton

Money Follows the Person 2012 Annual Evaluation Report

Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Matthew Kehn, Rebecca SweetlLester, Debra Lipson, Wilfredo Lim, Jessica Ross, Alex Bohl, Victoria Peebles, Samuel Simon, Bailey Orshan, Susan R. Williams, Eric Morris and Christal Stone

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on the Career Transition Program

Thomas Fraker, Peter Baird, Arif Mamun, Michelle Manno, John Martinez, Debbie Reed and Allison Thompkins

How Much Are Medicaid Buy-In Participants Earning?

William E. Black, Su Liu and Henry T. Ireys

Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment: Preliminary Findings from the National Evaluation

Henry Ireys, Gilbert Gimm, Boyd Gilman, Noelle Denny-Brown and Sarah Croake

Quality in Home-Based Child Care: A Review of Selected Literature

Juliet Bromer, Toni Porter, Christopher Jones, Marina Ragonese-Barnes and Jaimie Orland

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Food Stamp Participation Rates for 1998-2000

Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

Exploring the Role of Partners and Spouses in the Decisions of Social Service Clients

M. Robin Dion

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Screening Identification Sheet

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

The Effects of Complications and Comorbidities on the Quality of Preventive Diabetes Care: A Literature Review

Leslie Jackson Conwell and Chad Boult

School Breakfast Program But Not School Lunch Program Participation Is Associated with Lower Body Mass Index

Philip M. Gleason and Allison Hedley Dodd

QRS Profile: District of Columbia Going for the Gold Tiered Rate Reimbursement System

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout