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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

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

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

Esa Eslami and Karen Cunnyngham

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

Replicate Variance Estimation for Combined Data of Independent Surveys

Donsig Jang and Amang Sukasih

Designing and Conducting Home Visiting Evaluations in Tribal Communities: Takeaways from the HomVEE Tribal Review

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

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

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

Lindsay Cattell and Julie Bruch

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

Nancy Cole and Mary Kay Fox

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

Choice Continues to Erode in 2002

Marsha Gold and John McCoy

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

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

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

Brandon Coffee-Borden and Diane Paulsell

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

How Have Rural Hospitals Improved Their Viability?

Kimberly Neuman, Jeanette Bergeron and Anthony Mazzeo

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

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

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

Dana Petersen, Megan Shoji, Adam Dunn and Natasha Nicolai

Attribution in DSRIP Demonstration Programs: A Spotlight on New Jersey and New York

Melanie Au, Carey Appold, Ryan Stringer and Patrick Balke

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

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

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 Long-Term Effects of Transitional Employment Services

Paul T. Decker and Craig V. Thornton

Analysis of the Characteristics of Medicare Advantage Plan Participation

Marsha Gold and Stephanie Peterson

Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Services Demonstration Evaluation: Executive Summary

Crystal Blyler, Melissa Azur, Bonnie O'Day, Priyanka Anand, Allison Barrett, Kavita Choudhry, Kara Contreary, Sarah Croake, Molly Crofton, Noelle Denny-Brown, Brian Johnston, Jasmine Little, Jennifer Lyons, Brenda Natzke, Stephanie Peterson, Max Rubinstein, Allison Siegwarth, James Woerheide and Kara Zivin

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Effectiveness of Reminder Messages for Recruitment

Heinrich Hock, Michael Levere and David Wittenburg

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

The National Evaluation of Reading Comprehension Interventions: Design Report

Susanne James-Burdumy, David Myers, John Deke, Wendy Mansfield, Russell Gersten, Joseph Dimino, Janice Dole, Lauren Liang, Sharon Vaughn and Meaghan Edmonds

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

Reliance Healthcare's Emergency Department Care Coordination Program

Bess Fleischman, Natalie Graves and Sonya Streeter

National Job Corps Study: Findings Using Administrative Earnings Records Data

Peter Z. Schochet, Sheena McConnell and John Burghardt

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

Jung Y. Kim, Todd Honeycutt and Michaella Morzuch

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

Jesse Chandler and Et. Al

Patient Safety, 2000 and 2001

Arnold Chen

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Food Stamp Program Participation Rates in 2004-2006 for All Eligible People and the Working Poor

Karen E. Cunnyngham, Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

The 1999 National Survey of Local School-to-Work Partnerships: Data Summary

Lara Hulsey and Michelle Van Noy

Primary Prevention and Health Outcomes: Treatment of Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazards and the Prevalence of Childhood Lead Poisoning

David J. Jones

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

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

Joel Smith

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

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

Rachel Miller, Purvi Sevak and Todd Honeycutt

NM GRADS: Lessons Learned from Implementing a School-Based Program for Young Parents Across New Mexico

Jessica Harper, Dean Hopper, Betsy Keating and Jessica Harding

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

Stroke, 1992-2001

Christina Park (anasys and Inc.)

Practical Lessons for Health Reform from the Military Health System

Thomas Croghan, Kristen Purcell and Kate Stewart

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

Nutrition, Food Security, and Obesity

Harold Beebout

Learning About Preschool Curricula: PCER and Beyond

John M. Love

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

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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 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

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

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

Mary Kay Fox, Charlotte Hanson and Ronette Briefel

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

Sarah Hughes, Caroline Lauver and Isabel Krakoff

Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Demonstration: Data Set

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

A Profile of Kindergarten Readiness in White Center: Fall 2007

Kimberly Boller, Diane Paulsell, Nikki Aikens, Liz Potamites, Barbara Carlson and Martha Kovac

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

Gina Livermore, Purvi Sevak and Marisa Shenk

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

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

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood

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

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

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

International Efforts to Serve Youth with Disabilities

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

Comparing Responses to the Race Question Asked Two Different Ways

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

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

Peter Cunningham, Kelly McKenzie and Erin Fries Taylor

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

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

Quinn Moore, Lara Hulsey and Michael Ponza

Building Infrastructure to Support Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Two-Year Findings from the Cross-Site Evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Initiative

Patricia Del Grosso, Margaret Hargreaves, Diane Paulsell, Cheri Vogel, Debra A. Strong, Heather Zaveri, Megan Hague Angus, Brandon Coffee-Borden, Russell Cole, Kirsten Barrett, Kimberly Boller and Deborah Daro

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

John L. Czajka and Carol Irvin

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

Esa Eslami and Karen Cunnyngham

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

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

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

Two-Step Estimation in Ratio-of-Mediator-Probability Weighted Causal Mediation Analysis

Edward Bein, Jonah Deutsch, Guanglei Hong, Kristin E. Porter, Xu Qin and Cheng Yang

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

Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

Professional Development Tools to Improve the Quality of Infant and Toddler Care: A Review of the Literature (Appendix Tables)

Nikki Aikens, Lauren Akers and Sally Atkins-Burnett

Participation in Healthy San Francisco: Trends in Enrollment and Retention

Margaret Colby, Catherine McLaughlin, Gregory Bee and Tricia Collins Higgins

Teacher Bonuses for Extra Work: A Profile of Missouri's Career Ladder Program

Timothy Silman and Steven Glazerman

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

Dana Petersen, Ann O'Malley, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kristin Geonnotti, Pragya Singh, Ha Tu, Stacy Dale, Kaylyn Swankoski, Dana Jean-Baptiste, Deborah Peikes, Grace Anglin, 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, Genna Cohen, Mynti Hossain, Melanie Au, Grace Oh, Lee-Lee Ellis, Elizabeth Holland, Janice Genevro, Randall Brown and Et Al.

Dental Care Expenditures and Retirement

Richard J. Manski, John Moeller, Haiyan Chen, Patricia A. St. Clair, Jody Schimmel, Larry Magder and John Pepper

Measuring School Climate Using the 2015 School Crime Supplement

Deborah Lessne, Christina Yanez and Michael Sinclair

Estimating Minutes of Physical Activity from the Previous Day Physical Activity: Recall Validation of a Prediction Equation

Jared M. Tucker, Gregory J. Welk, Sarah M. Nusser, Nicholas K. Beyler and David Dzewaltowski

“An Opportunity for a Resetâ€: The Experiences of Jail-Based American Job Center Customers Before and After Release

Alix Gould-Werth

Predictors and Moderators of Symptom Change During Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy or Supportive Psychotherapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Katharine A. Phillips, Jennifer L. Greenberg, Susanne S. Hoeppner, Hilary Weingarden, Sheila O'Keefe, Aparna Keshaviah, David A. Schoenfeld and Sabine Wilhelm

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

Evaluation of Health Care Innovation Awards (HCIA): Primary Care Redesign Programs First Annual Report, Volume II: Individual Program Summarires

Boyd Gilman, Sheila Hoag, Lorenzo Moreno, Greg Peterson, Linda Barterian, Laura Blue, Kristin Geonnotti, Tricia Higgins, Mynti Hossain, Lauren Hula, Rosalind Keith, Jennifer Lyons, Brenda Natzke, Brenna Rabel, Rumin Sarwar, Rachel Shapiro, Cara Stephanczuk, Victoria Peebles, KeriAnn Wells and Joseph Zickafoose

Progress and Challenges in Developing Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (TQRIS) in the Round 1 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) States

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

Enhancing the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Evaluation: A Concept Paper

Mary T. Moore, Mark Dynarski, John Mullens, Suzanne James-Burdumy and Linda Rosenberg

Fostering Effective Grassroots Partnerships: Lessons from Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

Pam Winston

Kauffman School Evaluation Long-Term Outcomes Report: Year 2

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

Training Teens and Transforming School Culture Through Comprehensive Sex Education: An Implementation Study of Teen PEP (Executive Summary)

Subuhi Asheer, Ellen Kisker and Betsy Keating

Maternity Group Homes Classification and Literature Review

Lara Hulsey

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

Evaluation Interim Report for the Georgia II Industry-Led Skills and Workforce Development Project

Evan Borkum, Irina Cheban, Camila Fernandez and Ira Nichols-Barrer

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

Mary Hyde, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

A Portrait of Head Start Classrooms and Programs in Spring 2015: FACES 2014-2015 Data Tables and Study Design

Emily Moiduddin, Charles Bush, Mikia Manley, Nikki Aikens, Louisa Tarullo, Lizabeth Malone and Serge Lukashanets

CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Help School-Based Health Centers Strengthen their Medical Home Features (Brief)

Mynti Hossain, Rebecca Coughlin and Joseph Zickafoose

Benefit Accuracy Measurement Methodology Evaluation

Frank Potter, Jessica Ziegler, Grace Roemer, Scott Richman, Sheng Wang, Andrew Clarkwest and Katie Bodenlos

Analyzing the Effects of Data Collection Mode Change in the 2003 National Survey of Recent College Graduates (NSRCG)

Donsig Jang, Zhanyun Zhao and Kelly H. Kang

Preliminary Cost and Quality Findings from the National Evaluation of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Demonstration

Joshua Breslau, Brian Briscombe, Michael Dunbar, Courtney Kase, Jonathan Brown, Allison Wishon Siegwarth and Rachel Miller

Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Retirement Savings (Report)

Samia Amin, Greg Chojnacki, Aravind Moorthy, Irma Perez-Johnson, Matt Darling and Jaclyn Lefkowitz

Recommendations for Successfully Recruiting and Retaining District Participation in a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Impact Evaluation

Timothy Bruursema