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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

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

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

Did the ADA Evolve into Our Ramp to Full Employment? An Analysis of 18 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Allison V. Thompkins

Early Implementation Experiences of State MFP Programs

Noelle Denny-Brown and Debra J. Lipson

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

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

Denial of Abortion in Legal Settings

Caitlin Gerdts, Teresa DePiñeres, Selma Hajri, Jame Harries, Altaf Hossain, Mahesh Puri, Divya Vohra and Diana Greene Foster

Evaluation and Measurement for TAACCCT Grant Programs: Recommendations and Resources for Getting Started

Nan Maxwell, Ann Person and Julie Bruch

Risk Adjustment: What Is the Current State of the Art and How Can it Be Improved?

Eric Schone and Randy Brown

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

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

Jane Fortson

Breastfeeding Practices and Knowledge in Indonesia

Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen and Clair Null

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

Exploring Staff Time Use in 30 Early Care and Education Centers

Katie Gonzalez and Pia Caronongan

Year 2 Demonstration Impacts of Using Medicaid Data to Directly Certify Students for Free School Meals: Final Evaluation Report (Summary)

Lara Hulsey, Joshua Leftin, Anne Gordon, Claire Smither Wulsin, Nicholas Redel, Allen Schirm, Nicholas Beyler, Sheila Heaviside, Brian Estes and Carole Trippe

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

Spring 2012 State Interview Protocol

Various Authors

Synthetic Multiple-Imputation Procedure for Multistage Complex Samples

Hanzhi Zhou, Michael R. Elliott and Trivellore E. Raghunathan

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

Pam Winston

Measuring School Climate Using the 2015 School Crime Supplement

Deborah Lessne, Christina Yanez and Michael Sinclair

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

Lindsay Fox, Margaret Sullivan and Ann E. Person

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

Associations of Parent Ratings of Children's Behavior with Child Development in an Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Sample of Preschool Children

Julieta Lugo-Gil, Yange Xue, Cheri Vogel, Elaine Hill, John M. Love, Deanna Gomby and Deborah Parrish

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

M. Robin Dion

Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research

Sharyl J. Nass, Laura A. Levit, Lawrence O. Gostin, editors. Committee on Health Research the Privacy of Health Information: The HIPAA Privacy Rule; Institute of Medicine and of which Thomas Croghan was a Member

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

Robert G. Wood and Justin Wheeler

Health Promotion Finds a Place in Local Health Departments

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

Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Unwed Parents

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

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

Prototype Notebook: Short Questions on Dietary Intake, Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors

Heather Hartline-Grafton, Rebecca Nyman, Ronette Briefel and Rhoda Cohen

Dental Care Expenditures and Retirement

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

Episode-Based Payments: Charting a Course for Health Care Payment Reform

Hoangmai H. Pham, Paul B. Ginsburg, Timothy K. Lake and Myles M. Maxfield

How Much Are Medicaid Buy-In Participants Earning?

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

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

Characteristics of Academic-Affiliated Health Systems

Matthew J. Niedzwiecki, Rachel M. Machta, James D. Reschovsky, Michael F. Furukawa and Eugene C. Rich

Learning As We Go: A First Snapshot of Early Head Start Programs, Staff, Families, and Children. Volume I

Cheri A. Vogel, Kimberly Boller, Yange Xue, Randall Blair, Nikki Aikens, Andrew Burwick, Yevgeny Shrago, Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Laura Kalb, Linda Mendenko, Judith Cannon, Sean Harrington and Jillian Stein

Missing and Invalid Diagnosis Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Amy Mangum, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Ignacio Martinez and Mariel Finucane

Work Readiness: Can It Lead to Better Employment and Earnings for Low-Income Adults?

Jacob Hartog, Sarah Wissel, Annalisa Mastri and Kelley Borradaile

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

Alyson Burnett, Julieta Lugo-Gil and Sarah Avellar

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

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

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

Peter Z. Schochet

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

Thomas Coen, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Philip Gleason

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

Participation in Healthy San Francisco: Trends in Enrollment and Retention

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

SNP and MMP Development: A National Profile and Key Issues for the Future

James M. Verdier

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

Dominick Esposito, Arnold Chen, Margaret Gerteis and Timothy Lake

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

Implementation of a Certification Program in Supply Chain Management for Early Career Professionals

Julie Bruch, Scott Baumgartner, Sarah Dolfin and Nan Maxwell

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

Lea Nolan, Jessica Mittler and Ben Marglin

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

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

Serving Noncustodial Parents: A Descriptive Study of Welfare-to-Work Programs

Karin Martinson, John Trutko and Debra Strong

Implications of State Methods for Offering Personal Assistance Services

Laura Ruttner and Carol V. Irvin

Payment Rate Comparison Tool User Guide

Bridget Bernick

National Survey of SSI Children and Families (NSCF)

Susan Mitchell

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2006

Cheri A. Vogel, Renée Nogales, Nikki Aikens and Louisa Tarullo

Kentucky’s SGA Project Demonstration: An Interim Evaluation Report

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

How Does Insurance Coverage Improve Health Outcomes?

Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet and Stephanie Peterson

Using State Tests for Evaluation Purposes

Henry May, Irma Perez-Johnson, Josh Haimson, Samina Sattar and Phil Gleason

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

Making Connections: Using Social Network Analysis for Program Evaluation

Todd Honeycutt

PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Framework

Dominick Esposito, Jessica Heeringa, Katharine Bradley, Sarah Croake and Laura Kimmey

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

Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

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

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

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

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

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

Philip M. Gleason and Allison Hedley Dodd

State-Level Youth Unemployment Rates from 2019 to 2020

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

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

Mikia Manley and Lisbeth Goble

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

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

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

Cara Orfield, Lauren Hula, Michael Barna and Sheila Hoag

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

Improving the School Attendance of New Jersey's Youngest Learners: Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades: A Snapshot of New Jersey

Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz

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

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

John Burghardt, Tim Silva and Lara Hulsey

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

Ethan Jacobs

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

Alix Gould-Werth

Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom†on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results from a Cluster Randomized Trial

J. Lawrence Aber, Catalina Torrente, Leighann Starkey, Brian Johnston, Edward Seidman and Peter Halpin

A Randomized Trial of Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Persons with High Use of Publicly Funded Services

Maria C. Raven, Matthew J. Niedzwiecki and Margot Kushel

Barriers to Primary Care

Bonnie O'Day and Holly Matulewicz

Results from the 2003 Targeted Beneficiary Survey on Access to Physician Services Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Timothy Lake, Marsha Gold, Anne Ciemnecki, Michael Sinclair, Nuria Diaz-Tena, Colette Lamothe-Galette and So Sasigant Limpa-Amara

Catalyzing Change in Secondary Education in Africa and India

Clemencia Cosentino, Swetha Sridharan and Clair Null

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

Ha Tu

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2007 (Appendix)

Louisa B. Tarullo, Cheri A. Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Emily Sama Martin, Renée Nogales and Patricia Del Grosso

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

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

Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Richard Strouse

Training in Adolescent Substance and Opioid Misuse in Pediatric Residency Programs

Emily B. Allen, Catherine D. Michelson, Katherine A. O’Donnell, Sarah M. Bagley, Joel Earlywine and Scott E. Hadland

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

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

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

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

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

Children's Diets in the Mid-1990s: Dietary Intake and Its Relationship with School Meal Participation

Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor

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

Changing the Paradigm from Treatment to Prevention: A Diabetes Case Model Context

Marsha Gold

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

What Predicts Training Completion and Credential Receipt? (Issue Brief)

Dana Rotz and Annalisa Mastri