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SSeCKS/AKAP12 Induces Repulsion Between Human Prostate Cancer and Microvessel Endothelial Cells Through the Activation of Semaphorin 3F

Wen Xie, Wei Su, Lijuan Zhang, Qingkun Shang and Bing Su

Assisting Unemployment Insurance Claimants: The Long-Term Impacts of the Job Search Assistance Demonstration, Data Set

Paul T. Decker, Robert B. Olsen, Lance Freeman and Daniel H. Klepinger

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

Kentucky’s SGA Project Demonstration: An Interim Evaluation Report

Frank Martin, Eric Morris, Todd Honeycutt, Gina Livermore, Annie Doubleday, Purvi Sevak and David Stapleton

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.

Case Study of National School Lunch Program Verification Outcomes in Large Metropolitan School Districts

John Burghardt, Tim Silva and Lara Hulsey

Emergency Department and Inpatient Hospital Use by Medicare Beneficiaries in Patient-Centered Medical Homes

Jesse M. Pines, Vincent Keyes, Martijn van Hasselt and Nancy McCall

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

Implications of State Methods for Offering Personal Assistance Services

Laura Ruttner and Carol V. Irvin

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

Evaluation of the Team-Based Goals and Performance-Based Incentives (TBGI) Innovation in Bihar

Evan Borkum, Anu Rangarajan, Dana Rotz, Swetha Sridharan, Sukhmani Sethi and Mercy Manorajini

The Affordable Care Act and Access to Care for People Changing Coverage Sources

Cara Orfield, Lauren Hula, Michael Barna and Sheila Hoag

Impact and Implementation Findings from an Experimental Evaluation of Playworks: Effects on School Climate, Academic Learning, Student Social Skills and Behavior

Jane Fortson, Susanne James-Burdumy, Martha Bleeker, Nicholas Beyler, Rebecca A. London, Lisa Westrich, Katie Stokes-Guinan and Sebastian Castrechini

Long-Term Impacts of KIPP Middle Schools on College Enrollment and Early College Persistence

Thomas Coen, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Philip Gleason

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

Comments on "The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa"

Jane Fortson

Evaluating Housing Programs for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care

Robin Dion and Amy Dworsky

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

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

Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

Implementing Covid-19 Routine Testing in K-12 Schools: Lessons and Recommendations from Pilot Sites

Divya Vohra, Patricia Rowan, John Hotchkiss, Kenneth Lim, Aimee Lansdale and So O'Neil

Examining Paradata of Minority-Owned Businesses in the Kauffman Firm Survey

Betsy Santos, David DesRoches, John Chen and Yuhong Zheng

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

Alix Gould-Werth

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

Jennifer Romich Heather D. Hill and University of Washington

Evaluation Design Report for the Liberia Energy Project: Activities 1 and 2

Candace Miller, Kristine Bos, Ali Protik, Randall Blair, Paolo Abarcar and Matthew Ribar

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

Using Implementation Research to Guide Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination of Patient-Centered Medical Home Models

Laura Damschroder, Deborah Peikes and Dana Petersen

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Food Stamp Participation Rates for 1994-1998

Allen L. Schirm

Keystone ACO's Health Navigator Program to Identify and Close Care Gaps (Case Study)

Julia Embry and Kate D'Anello

Health Promotion Finds a Place in Local Health Departments

Megan McHugh, Rose Marie Martinez, Rebecca Kliman and Sara Roschwalb

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

Alyson Burnett, Julieta Lugo-Gil and Sarah Avellar

Achievement Effects of Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings from First Graders in 39 Schools (Conference Paper)

Roberto Agodini

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

The Effects of Teach For America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation

Paul T. Decker, Daniel P. Mayer and Steven Glazerman

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

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

Alternative Student Growth Measures for Teacher Evaluation: Implementation Experiences of Early-Adopting Districts

Moira McCullough, Brittany English, Megan Hague Angus and Brian Gill

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

Marsha Gold, Winnie Wang and Julia Paradise

Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration: Response to 21st Century Cures Act Requirements (Report to Congress)

Ellen Bouchery, Sandra Chao, Mary Allison Geibel, Claire Brindley, Christine O'Malley, Kara Zivin and Crystal Blyler

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

Measuring School Climate Using the 2015 School Crime Supplement

Deborah Lessne, Christina Yanez and Michael Sinclair

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

Timothy Silman and Steven Glazerman

An Empirical Study of Nonresponse Adjustment Methods for the Survey of Doctorate Recipients

Fan Zhang, Stephen Cohen, Donsig Jang, Amang Sukasih and Sonya Vartivarian

Patterns and Processes of Pasture to Crop Conversion in Brazil: Evidence from Mato Grosso State

Avery S. Cohn, Juliana Gil, Thomas Berger, Heitor Pellegrina and Chantal Toledo

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

A National Portrait of Head Start Children and Families: FACES 2014

Louisa Tarullo, Emily Knas, Ashley Kopack Klein, Nikki Aikens, Lizabeth Malone and Jessica F. Harding

Exploring Mode Effects in a Panel Survey of New Businesses

Betsy Santos and David DesRoches

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Ignacio Martinez and Mariel Finucane

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1997

Scott Cody and Laura Castner

The Unknown World of Charter High Schools

Kevin Booker, Tim Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer

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

Michelle Derr, Ann Person and Jonathan McCay

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

Exploring the Policy Implications of High†Profile Police Violence

Johanna Lacoe and Jillian Stein

State of South Carolina. Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges

Lea Nolan, Jessica Mittler and Ben Marglin

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

Hanley Chiang and Brian Gill

An Implementation Analysis of States' Experiences in Transitioning "Stairstep" Children from Separate CHIP to Medicaid

Cara Orfield, Sean Orzol and Lauren Hula

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

Is There a Trade-Off Between Quality and Cost?: An Experiment Comparing Telephone vs. Face-to-Face Responses to the National Beneficiary Survey

Matt Sloan, Debra Wright and Kirsten Barrett

Three Independent Evaluations of Healthy Kids Programs Find Substantial Gains in Children's Dental Health Care

Dana Hughes, Embry Howell, Christopher Trenholm, Ian Hill and Lisa Dubay

Do Employers Value Return Migrants? An Experiment on the Returns to Foreign Work Experience

Paolo Abarcar

Care Coordination in Medicaid Managed Care: A Primer for States, Managed Care Organizations, Providers, and Advocates

Margo Rosenbach and Cheryl Young

Longitudinal Experiences of an Early Cohort of Ticket to Work Participants

Gina Livermore, Allison Roche and Sarah Prenovitz

Findings from the Healthy Start National Evaluation: Phase II

Deborah Klein Walker and Margo Rosenbach

Measuring Competitive Foods in Schools: A Point of Sales Approach

Rhoda Cohen, Angelina Kewal-Ramani, Renee Nogales, James Ohls and Michael Sinclair

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

A First Step to Helping California Workers Keep Their Jobs: Identifying Likely SSDI Entrants Using State Disability Claims

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Frank Neuhauser and David Stapleton

Designing Care Management Entities for Youth with Complex Behavioral Health Needs

Grace Anglin, Adam Swinburn, Leslie Foster, Cindy Brach and Linda Bergofsky

Do Typical RCTs of Education Interventions Have Sufficient Statistical Power for Linking Impacts on Teacher Practice and Student Achievement Outcomes?

Peter Z. Schochet

Modernization of the Food Stamp Program in Florida

Scott Cody, Renee Nogales and Emily Sama-Martin

The Value of the Increasing Effort to Maintain High Response Rates in Telephone Surveys

Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Richard Strouse

State-Level Youth Unemployment Rates from 2019 to 2020

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

Investigation of Tests for the Difference of Two Spreads

Darryl Creel

Follow-Up Care After Emergency Department Visits for Mental and Substance Use Disorders Among Medicaid Beneficiaries

Sarah Croake, Jonathan D. Brown, Dean Miller, Nathan Darter, Milesh M. Patel, Junqing Liu and Sarah Hudson Scholle

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

Timothy Bruursema

Cross-Site Evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Grantee Cluster: Evaluation Design Volume 1

Heather Koball, Heather Zaveri, Kimberly Boller, Deborah Daro, Jean Knab, Diane Paulsell, Margaret Hargreaves, Debra A. Strong, Lizabeth Malone, Patricia Del Grosso and Yange Xue

E-Cigarette Use Among US Adolescents: Secondhand Smoke at Home Matters

Xiao Zhang and Jia Pu

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

National Survey of SSI Children and Families (NSCF)

Susan Mitchell

National Job Corps Study: Characteristics of Youths Served by Job Corps

Peter Schochet

Assessing Early Implementation of State Autism Insurance Mandates

Julia Berlin Baller, Colleen L. Barry, Kathleen Shea, Megan M. Walker, Rachel Ouellette and David S. Mandell

Transforming Student Success: Moving from Insight to Action by Democratizing Data across the California State University

Mikia Manley and Lisbeth Goble

The Disability System and Programs to Promote Employment for People with Disabilities (Journal Article)

David Wittenburg, David R. Mann and Allison Thompkins

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

Payment Rate Comparison Tool User Guide

Bridget Bernick

Care Management for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

James M. Verdier

Dental Care Expenditures and Retirement

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

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

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 (Summary)

Esa Eslami, Joshua Leftin and Mark Strayer

Foundation's Consumer Advocacy Health Reform Initiative Strengthened Groups' Effectiveness

Debra Strong, Debra Lipson, Todd Honeycutt and Jung Kim

The Postretirement Well-Being of Workers With Disabilities

April Yanyuan Wu and Jody Schimmel Hyde

What Do We Know About School Discipline Reform?

Matthew P. Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe

Case Management: At the Heart of Healthy Start

Barbara Devaney, Embry Howell and Marie McCormick

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

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

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

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

Ha Tu

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

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

Lindsay Fox, Margaret Sullivan and Ann E. Person

Health Plans' Use of Physician Resource Use and Quality Measures

Timothy Lake, Margaret Colby and Stephanie Peterson

Structuring Employment-Based Services Within Jail Spaces and Schedules

Jennifer Henderson-Frakes

Project SPARK Landscape Analysis of Evaluation Technical Assistance to Build the Evaluation Capacity of Human Services and Related Programs

Alexandra Stanczyk, Mary Anne Anderson, Armando Yañez and Lauren Amos