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Reporting What Readers Need to Know About Education Research Measures: A Guide

Kimberly Boller and Ellen Eliason Kisker

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

Patricia Collins Higgins, Melanie Au and Erin Fries Taylor

Work Incentives and Disincentives

Paul T. Decker

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

Nuria Diaz-Tena and Frank Potter

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

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

Walter Corson, Stuart Kerachsky and Ellen Eliason Kisker

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

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

Dana Petersen, Megan Shoji, Adam Dunn and Natasha Nicolai

COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and Youth Unemployment During 2021

Hande Inanc and Megan Caruso

Understanding District-Charter Collaboration (Issue Brief)

Alyson Burnett, Moira McCullough and Christina Clark Tuttle

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 Equity Project Charter School: Impacts on Student Achievement

Joshua Furgeson, Moira McCullough, Clare Wolfendale and Brian Gill

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

The Community Tracking Study Surveys of Physicians

Frank Potter, Stephen Williams and Nuria Diaz-Tena

Replicate Variance Estimation for Combined Data of Independent Surveys

Donsig Jang and Amang Sukasih

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

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

Quinn Moore, Lara Hulsey and Michael Ponza

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

James M. Verdier

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.

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

Nutrition, Food Security, and Obesity

Harold Beebout

Money Follows the Person 2014 Annual Evaluation Report

Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Andrea Wysocki, Rebecca Coughlin and Susan R. Williams

The Marriage Measures Guide of State-Level Statistics

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

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

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

Non-Elderly Disabled Category 2 Housing Choice Voucher Program: An Implementation and Impact Analysis

Debra Lipson, Denise Hoffman and Matthew Kehn

Analysis of the Characteristics of Medicare Advantage Plan Participation

Marsha Gold and Stephanie Peterson

Learning About Preschool Curricula: PCER and Beyond

John M. Love

Obtaining High Rates of Parental Consent: Additional Evidence for the Field Enrollment Specialist (FES) Approach

Elisha Smith and Susan Sprachman

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

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

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

Todd Honeycutt and Purvi Sevak

WIC Turns 35: Program Effectiveness and Future Directions

Barbara Devaney

Comparing Responses to the Race Question Asked Two Different Ways

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

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

Rita Hamad and Matthew J. Niedzwiecki

CHIPRA Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: Cross Cutting Report on Findings from Ten State Case Studies

Ian Hill, Sheila Hoag, Sarah Benatar, Cara Orfield, Embry Howell, Victoria Peebles, Brigette Courtot and Margaret Wilkinson

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

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

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

Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

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

Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

National Job Corps Study: Findings Using Administrative Earnings Records Data

Peter Z. Schochet, Sheena McConnell and John Burghardt

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

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

Thomas Fraker, Arif Mamun and Lori Timmins

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

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

RPG Cross-Site Evaluation and Technical Assistance: First Annual Report

Debra A. Strong, Sarah A. Avellar and Christine Ross

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

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Carol Kuhns

Supporting Student Engagement in Remote and Hybrid Learning Environments

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid‑Atlantic

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

Annalisa Mastri and Jacob Hartog

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

Jesse Chandler and Et. Al

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

Jeanne Bellotti, Michelle Derr, Jillian Berk and Nora Paxton

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

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

Lizabeth Malone and Sara Bernstein

Sector Training Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from the America's Promise Partnerships

Jeanne Bellotti, Brittany English and Alicia Harrington

Subjects' Views of Obligations to Ensure Post-Trial Access to Drugs, Care, and Information: Qualitative Results from the Experiences of Participants in Clinical Trials (EPIC) Study

N. Sofaer, C. Thiessen, S.D. Goold, J. Ballou, K.A. Getz, G. Koski, R.A. Krueger and J.S. Weissman

Responsible Fatherhood Programming: Two Approaches to Service Delivery

Heather Zaveri, Robin Dion and Scott Baumgartner

Ewing Marion Kauffman School Evaluation Impact Report: Year 3

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

Enhancing Information for State Health Policy

Penny Feldman, Marsha Gold and Karyen Chu

International Efforts to Serve Youth with Disabilities

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

How Does Cash and Counseling Affect Costs?

Stacy B. Dale and Randall S. Brown

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

Sarah Hughes, Caroline Lauver and Isabel Krakoff

Medicare Advantage 2014 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

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

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

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

James M. Verdier

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

Rachel Miller, Purvi Sevak and Todd Honeycutt

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

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

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

What Have we Learned about SSA and VR Program Interactions?

David R. Mann

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

Justin S. White and Debra A. Draper

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

Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Unwed Parents

M. Robin Dion, Debra A. Strong and Alan M. Hershey

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

How Much Are Medicaid Buy-In Participants Earning?

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

TANF at 10: Welfare Reform in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania

Robert G. Wood and Justin Wheeler

Measuring and Reducing Errors in the School Meal Programs: The APEC II Study and FNS Actions (Summary)

Food and Nutrition Service with support from Mathematica Policy Research

Providing Technical Assistance to Grantees Helping Families Navigate the Workforce and Child Care Systems

Elizabeth Brown, Grace Roemer, Max Rankin, Jessica Harding, Kara Conroy, Nickie Fung and Jeanette Holdbrook

The Impacts of Philadelphia's Accelerated Schools on Academic Progress and Graduation

Hanley Chiang and Brian Gill

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

Ethan Jacobs

Benefit Accuracy Measurement Methodology Evaluation

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

Breastfeeding Practices and Knowledge in Indonesia

Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen and Clair Null

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Texas TexCare Partnership

Corinna Hawkes and Ian Hill

National Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation-Related Technical Assistance: RPG First Annual Report

Alyson Burnett, Julieta Lugo-Gil and Sarah Avellar

Employment Among Social Security Disability Program Beneficiaries, 1996-2007

Arif Mamun, Paul O'Leary, David Wittenburg and Jesse Gregory

The Teacher-Student Data Link Project: First-Year Implementation

Kristin Hallgren, Cassie Pickens Jewell and Celina Kamler

Working Students Success Network (WSSN): Final Outcomes Evaluation Report

Lindsay Fox, Margaret Sullivan and Ann E. Person

Survey Design for TANF Caseload Project: Summary Report and Recommendations

Martha Kovac, Robin Dion, Jason Markesich and Donna Pavetti

Case Management: At the Heart of Healthy Start

Barbara Devaney, Embry Howell and Marie McCormick

Many Routes to the Top: Efforts to Improve Care Quality, Coordination, and Costs Through Provider Collaborations

Ha Tu

Evaluation of Healthy San Francisco

Catherine McLaughlin, Margaret Colby, Erin Taylor, Mary Harrington, Tricia Higgins, Vivian Byrd and Laurie Felland

Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Retirement Savings (Report)

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

Better Beginnings: The State of Early Learning and Kindergarten Readiness in East Yakima

Diane Paulsell, Kimberly Boller, Nikki Aikens, Martha Kovac and Patricia Del Grosso

New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Stakeholders' Forum

Janice Ballou, David Frank, Audrey McDonald and Julie Rothbard

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

YTD Evaluation Finds Positive Impacts on Employment in Florida and West Virginia (In Focus Brief)

Thomas Fraker

Completeness of the CHIP and Dual Status Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Tasnuva Khan, Edward Weizenegger, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

Learn, Innovate, Improve (LI²): Enhancing Programs and Improving Lives (Practice Brief)

Michelle Derr, Ann Person and Jonathan McCay

Program Structure and Service Delivery in Eleven Welfare-to-Work Grant Programs

Demetra Smith Nightingale

Evaluating the HCIA - Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse Awards: Addendum to the Third Annual Report

Henry Ireys, Ellen Bouchery, Crystal Blyler, Tricia Higgins, Michael Barna, Dan Friend, Matt Kehn, Jennifer Lyons, Rachel Miller, Brenda Natzke, Laura Ruttner, Allison Siegwarth, Michaela Vine and Aparajita Zutshi

Evaluation of the Independence at Home Demonstration: An Examination of the First Six Years

Laura Kimmey, Michael Anderson, Valerie Cheh, Jason Rotter and Andrea Wysocki

The Role of Workplace Accommodations in the Employment of People with Disabilities

Priyanka Anand and Purvi Sevak

The Sequential Scale-Up of an Evidence-Based Intervention: A Case Study

Jaime Thomas, Thomas D. Cook, Alice Klein, Prentice Starkey and Lydia DeFlorio