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Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Effectiveness of Reminder Messages for Recruitment

Heinrich Hock, Michael Levere and David Wittenburg

Practical Lessons for Health Reform from the Military Health System

Thomas Croghan, Kristen Purcell and Kate Stewart

How Does Cash and Counseling Affect Costs?

Stacy B. Dale and Randall S. Brown

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

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

Assessing the Effectiveness of Efforts to Diversify the Health Professions: Evidence from the RWJF Summer Medical and Dental Education Program

Clemencia Cosentino

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

Todd Honeycutt and Purvi Sevak

Replicate Variance Estimation for Combined Data of Independent Surveys

Donsig Jang and Amang Sukasih

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

Justin S. White and Debra A. Draper

Student Achievement in New York City Middle Schools Affiliated with Achievement First and Uncommon Schools

Bing-ru Teh, Moria McCullough and Brian P. Gill

Analysis of the Characteristics of Medicare Advantage Plan Participation

Marsha Gold and Stephanie Peterson

Integrating Latino Immigrants in New Rural Destinations

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

State Guide to Identifying Aligned Enrollees: How to Find Medicare Plan Enrollment for Dually Eligible Individuals in Medicaid Managed Care Plans

Danielle Chelminsky, Alena Tourtellotte and Erin Weir Lakhmani

Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2001

Laura Castner and Allen Schirm

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

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

Lizabeth Malone and Sara Bernstein

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): 2006, Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

Examining a New Model for Prisoner Re-Entry Services: The Evaluation of Beneficiary Choice

Jeanne Bellotti, Michelle Derr, Jillian Berk and Nora Paxton

Evaluation of the Irrigation and Water Resource Management Project in Senegal: Design Report

Aravind Moorthy, Thomas Coen, Katie Naeve, Jeremy Brecher-Haimson and Sarah Hughes

Movement of Children Between Medicaid and CHIP, 2005 to 2007

John L. Czajka

Nonexperimental Replications of Social Experiments: A Systematic Review

Steven Glazerman, Dan M. Levy and David Myers

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

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

Independent Evaluation of Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+): Second Annual Report

Grace Anglin, Deborah Peikes, Dana Petersen, Ann O'Malley, Kristin Geonnotti, Arkadipta Ghosh, Pragya Singh, Ha Tu, Stacy Dale, Kaylyn Swankoski, Dana Jean-Baptiste, Janice Genevro, Sheila Hoag, Katie Morrison Lee, Rosalind Keith, Victoria Peebles, Amanda Markovitz, Min-Young Kim, Sean Orzol, Laura Blue, Ning Fu, Jessica Laird, Lauren Vollmer, Mariel Finucane, Laurie Felland, Linda Barterian, Rumin Sarwar, Jasmine Little, Rachel Machta, Genna Cohen, Mynti Hossain, Melanie Au, Grace Oh, Lee-Lee Ellis, Elizabeth Holland, Randall Brown and Et Al.

The Youth Transition Demonstration: Lifting Employment Barriers for Youth with Disabilities

Thomas Fraker

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

Thomas Fraker, Arif Mamun and Lori Timmins

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

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

COVID-19 and Youth Unemployment by Race and Ethnicity

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

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

John L. Czajka, Audra Wenzlow and Julie Sykes

Measuring School Effectiveness in Memphis—Year 2

Liz Potamites, Duncan Chaplin, Eric Isenberg and Kevin Booker

Improving Medicaid and SCHIP Through Simplification and Coordination

Sheila D. Hoag and Beth Stevens

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

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

Choice Continues to Erode in 2002

Marsha Gold and John McCoy

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

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

Walter Corson, Stuart Kerachsky and Ellen Eliason Kisker

The Impact of Healthy Harlem on the Body Mass Index and Weight Status of Adolescents after Two and Three Years

Martha Bleeker, James Mabli, Mary Kay Fox, Betina Jean-Louis and Marlene Fox

Trajectories of the Home Learning Environment Across the First 5 Years: Associations with Children's Vocabulary and Literacy Skills at Prekindergarten

Eileen T. Rodriguez and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

We Grow Together Professional Development System: Implementation with Infant-Toddler Teachers and Caregivers

Harshini Shah, Ayesha De Mond, Shannon Monahan and Louisa Tarullo

The Changing Face of Managed Care

Debra Draper, Robert E. Hurley, Cara Lesser and Bradley C. Strunk

International Efforts to Serve Youth with Disabilities

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

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

Leslie Foster

The Characteristics and Experiences of English Learner Students with Disabilities in Secondary School: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012

Albert Y. Liu, Stephen Lipscomb and Alexander Johann

The Carle Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Arnold Chen, Sean Orzol and Deborah Peikes

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

Shanna Shulman and Margo Rosenbach

Nutrition, Food Security, and Obesity

Harold Beebout

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Applicant Screen

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

Spotlight on Pennsylvania

Grace Anglin, Leslie Foster and Mynti Hossain

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

Danielle Whicher, Julia Alamillo, Lexi Ouellette and Breyon Williams

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

Jung Y. Kim, Todd Honeycutt and Michaella Morzuch

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

John Gettens and Alexis D. Henry

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

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

Understanding District-Charter Collaboration (Issue Brief)

Alyson Burnett, Moira McCullough and Christina Clark Tuttle

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

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

Re-Defining the Who, When, and Where of Mentoring for Professional Statisticians

Lauren Vollmer, Aparna Keshaviah, Dmitriy Poznyak, Sharon Zhao, Fei Xing and Nicholas Beyler

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

Dana Petersen, Megan Shoji, Adam Dunn and Natasha Nicolai

Patient Safety, 2000 and 2001

Arnold Chen

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

Esa Eslami and Karen Cunnyngham

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

The Integration of Latino Immigrants in the Rural United States

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

Provider Engagement Toolkit

Nazihah Siddiqui, Sonya Streeter, Ethan Jacobs and Rumin Sarwar

Review of International Evidence on the Cost of Disability

David Stapleton, Ali Protik and Christal Stone

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

Nuria Diaz-Tena and Frank Potter

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

Catherine McLaughlin

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

Evaluation of the Ticket to Work Program: Initial Evaluation Report

Craig Thornton, Gina Livermore, David Stapleton, John Kregel, Tim Silva, Bonnie O'Day, Thomas Fraker, W. Grant Revell, Jr., Heather Schroeder and Meredith Edwards

Medicare 101 and 201: Key Issues for State Programs for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

Julie Klebonis, Michelle Herman Soper and Jim Verdier

Using Psychology-Informed Strategies to Promote Self-Sufficiency: A Review of Innovative Programs

Mary Anne Anderson, Elizabeth Brown, Elizabeth W. Cavadel, Michelle Derr and Jacqueline F. Kauff

Managing Care Transitions in Medicaid: Spotlight on Community Care of North Carolina (Issue Brief)

Marsha Gold, Winnie Wang and Julia Paradise

Making Child Support Safe: Coordinating Child Support and Public Assistance Agencies in Their Response to Domestic Violence

Ali Stieglitz and Amy Johnson

Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire (ASQ): Development and Validation

Amanda Baker†€, Naomi Simon, Aparna Keshaviah, Amy Farabaugh, Thilo Deckersbach, John J. Worthington, Elizabeth Hoge, Maurizio Fava and Mark P. Pollack

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Two Years (Executive Summary)

Hanley Chiang, Alison Wellington, Kristin Hallgren, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann, Steven Glazerman and Jill Constantine

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

Ethan Jacobs

A Guide to Emerging Strategies for Promoting Prevention and Improving Oral Health Care Delivery in Head Start: Lessons from the Oral Health Initiative Evaluation, Volume II

Patricia Del Grosso, Amy Brown, Sandra Silva, Jamila Henderson, Naomi Tein and Diane Paulsell

State Policy-Makers' Views on the Role of Consumer Advocates in Health Policy Discussions

Debra J. Lipson, Marykate Zukiewicz and Sheila Hoag

Addressing Return-to-Work Issues in the Federal Employees' Compensation Act with Administrative Data

Nan Maxwell, Albert Liu, Nathan Wozny and Caroline Massad Francis

Prenatal Case Management of Pregnant Women: What Is the Evidence for Its Contribution to a Reduction of Disparities in Perinatal Outcomes?

L. Michele Issel, Jamie C. Slaughter and Sarah G. Forrestal

The Faces of Medicaid: The Complexities of Caring for People with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities

Susan M. Allen, Alison L. Croke, Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Margo Rosenbach and Arnold Chen Theresa Nguygen

Survey Design for TANF Caseload Project: Summary Report and Recommendations

Martha Kovac, Robin Dion, Jason Markesich and Donna Pavetti

Changing Stays? Duration of Supplemental Security Income Participation by First-Time Child Awardees and the Role of Continuing Disability Reviews

Jeffrey Hemmeter, Michael Levere, Pragya Singh and David Wittenburg

Impacts of the Teach For America Investing in Innovation Scale-Up

Melissa A. Clark, Eric Isenberg, Albert Y. Liu, Libby Makowsky and Marykate Zukiewicz

Sample Size Guide

Mikia Manley, Virginia Knechtel and Gregory Chojnacki

Race to the Top: Implementation and Relationship to Student Outcomes (In Focus)

Lisa Dragoset, Jaime Thomas, Mariesa Herrmann, John Deke, Susanne James-Burdumy, Cheryl Graczewski, Andrea Boyle, Courtney Tanenbaum, Jessica Giffin and Rachel Upton

Impacts of Low-Cost-Connection Offers in Tanzania: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (In Focus Brief)

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

Racial Disparities in Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care: Sensitive Conditions

So O'Neil, Timothy Lake, Angela Merrill, Ander Wilson, David A. Mann and Linda M. Bartnyska

Rural Hospitals Grow Stronger But Are Not Out of the Woods: Final Evaluation Report for the 1994 Grant Program for Rural Health Care Transition

Jeanette Bergeron and Sajeed Kabir

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

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of Information from the National Health Screening Program in Korea

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Suejin A. Lee and Wilfredo Lim

Interactions Between Survey Estimates and Federal Funding Formulas

Alan Zaslavsky and Allen Schirm

Enrolling Teenage AFDC Parents in Mandatory Education and Training Programs: Lessons from the Teenage Parent Demonstration

Alan M. Hershey

Income Instability and Income Support Programs: Recommendations for Policy and Practice

Jennifer Romich Heather D. Hill and University of Washington

Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Themes from Site Visits to Five States

Jenna Libersky, Cara Stepanczuk, Rebecca Lester, Kristie Liao and Debra Lipson

Federal Medical and Disability Program Costs Associated with Diabetes, 2005: Summary of Methods and Key Findings

Marsha Gold, Craig Thornton, Allison Hedley, Cheryl Fahlman. Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Bob Weathers

Managed Care and Low-Income Populations: A Case Study of Managed Care in Maryland

Marsha Gold, Jessica Mittler and Barbara Lyons

Evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program

Elizabeth Clary, Jonathan Ladinsky, Megan Hague Angus and Alexander Millar

Coordinating Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Early Experiences of 15 Demonstration Programs, Their Patients, and Providers

Randall Brown, Jennifer Schore, Nancy Archibald, Arnold Chen, Deborah Peikes, Karen Sautter, Bridget Lavin, Sherry Aliotta and Todd Ensor