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Trends in Access to Health Care for Workers with Disabilities, 1997-2011

Jody Schimmel and Gina Livermore

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

Roberto Agodini

Conducting InDepth Assessments

LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle Derr and Emily Sama Martin

Sample Size Guide

Mikia Manley, Virginia Knechtel and Gregory Chojnacki

Effects of Preschool Curriculum Programs on School Readiness: Report from the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research Initiative

Sarah A. Avellar, Steven Glazerman and Susan Sprachman

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

Peter Schochet

National Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program: Methodological Appendices Regarding the Baseline Survey (Covering Workers Eligible Under the 2002 Program)

Peter Z. Schochet

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

Maternity Group Homes Classification and Literature Review

Lara Hulsey

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

Demetra Smith Nightingale

Breastfeeding Practices and Knowledge in Indonesia

Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen and Clair Null

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

Paolo Abarcar

Sustaining Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs: Lessons Learned from Former OAH Grantees

Julia Alamillo, Subuhi Asheer, Betsy Keating and Jean Knab

The Postretirement Well-Being of Workers With Disabilities

April Yanyuan Wu and Jody Schimmel Hyde

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

Mary Hyde, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

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

Marsha Gold, Jessica Mittler and Barbara Lyons

Missing and Invalid Diagnosis Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Amy Mangum, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

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

M. Robin Dion

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

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

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

Kauffman School Evaluation Long-Term Outcomes Report: Year 2

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

Outlier Adjustments and Reporting Thresholds

Eric Schone

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

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

Reducing Job Loss among Workers with New Health Problems

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Jennifer Christian and David Stapleton

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

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2006

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

Consumer Engagement in Health IT: Distinguishing Rhetoric from Reality

Marsha Gold, Mynti Hossain and Amy Mangum

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

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

Debra J. Lipson, Marykate Zukiewicz and Sheila Hoag

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

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

Case Study of an Employment Program for Youth and Services for Families: Community Action Organization (CAO) of Scioto County

Lindsay Ochoa and Pamela Holcomb

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

Ali Stieglitz and Amy Johnson

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

Thomas Coen, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Philip Gleason

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

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

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

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

Options for Studying Teacher Pay Reform Using Natural Experiments

Steven Glazerman, Tim Silva, Nii Addy, Sarah Avellar, Jeffrey Max, Allison McKie, Brenda Natzke, Michael Puma, Patrick Wolf and Rachel Ungerer Greszler

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

Ethan Jacobs

What Are Error Rates for Classifying Teacher and School Performance Using Value-Added Models?

Peter Z. Schochet and Hanley S. Chiang

Drawing Across School Boundaries: How Federally Funded Magnet Schools Recruit and Admit Students

Moira McCullough, Lindsay Ochoa and Christina Clark Tuttle

State-Level Youth Unemployment Rates from 2019 to 2020

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

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

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

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

Healthy Indiana Plan: Lessons for Health Reform

Timothy K. Lake, Vivian L. H. Byrd and Seema Verma

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

CHIPRA Mandated Evaluation of Express Lane Eligibility: First Year Findings

Sheila Hoag, Sean Orzol, Margaret Colby, Adam Swinburn, Fredric Blavin, Genevieve M. Kenney and Michael Huntress

Early Implementation Experiences of State MFP Programs

Noelle Denny-Brown and Debra J. Lipson

How Much Are Medicaid Buy-In Participants Earning?

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

The Multiethnic Placement Act 25 Years Later: Trends in Adoption and Transracial Adoption

Allon Kalisher, Jennah Gosciak and Jill Spielfogel

Improving Effect Estimates by Limiting the Variability in Inverse Propensity Score Weights

Keith Kranker, Laura Blue and Lauren Vollmer Forrow

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment: Preliminary Findings from the National Evaluation

Henry Ireys, Gilbert Gimm, Boyd Gilman, Noelle Denny-Brown and Sarah Croake

Evaluation of the National School Lunch Program Application/Verification Pilot Projects: Volume I: Impacts on Deterrence Barriers and Accuracy

John Burghardt, Philip M. Gleason, Michael Sinclair, Rhoda Cohen, Lara Hulsey and Julita Milliner-Waddell

Characteristics of Academic-Affiliated Health Systems

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

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

Karin Martinson, John Trutko and Debra Strong

Case Management: At the Heart of Healthy Start

Barbara Devaney, Embry Howell and Marie McCormick

Constrained Innovation in Managing Care for High-Risk Seniors in Medicare+Choice Risk Plans

Craig Thornton, Sheldon Retchin, Kenneth D. Smith, Peter D. Fox, William Black and Rita Stapulonis

Making Connections: Using Social Network Analysis for Program Evaluation

Todd Honeycutt

Participation in Healthy San Francisco: Trends in Enrollment and Retention

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

Using State Tests for Evaluation Purposes

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

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

Betsy Santos, David DesRoches, John Chen and Yuhong Zheng

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

WIC Breastfeeding Policy Inventory

Sarah Forrestal, Ronette Briefel and James Mabli

Health Promotion Finds a Place in Local Health Departments

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

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

Quality in Home-Based Child Care: A Review of Selected Literature

Juliet Bromer, Toni Porter, Christopher Jones, Marina Ragonese-Barnes and Jaimie Orland

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

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

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

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

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

Reporting Person-Level Separate CHIP Data to MSIS: A Guide for States, Programmer's Supplement

Cheryl A. Camillo, Matthew Hodges, Stephen Kuncaitis, Paul M. Montebello and Ashley Zlatinov

Second-Generation Medicaid Managed Care: Can It Deliver?

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), 1992-2001

Robert Schmitz

Variation in Risk-Standardized Rates and Causes of Unplanned Hospital Visits Within 7 Days of Hospital Outpatient Surgery

Mayur M. Desai, Cheryl K. Zogg, Isuru Ranasinghe, Craig S. Parzynski, Zhenqiu Lin, Marianna Gorbaty, Angela Merrill, Harlan M. Krumholz and Elizabeth E. Drye

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

Mikia Manley and Lisbeth Goble

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

Factors Associated With the Acceptance of New TRICARE and Medicare Patients by Health Care Providers

Priyanka Anand, Yonatan Ben-Shalom and Eric Schone

Current and Former WFNJ Clients: How Are They and Their Children Faring 40 Months Later?

Anu Rangarajan and Amy Johnson

Measuring School Climate Using the 2015 School Crime Supplement

Deborah Lessne, Christina Yanez and Michael Sinclair

Barriers to Primary Care

Bonnie O'Day and Holly Matulewicz

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

Laura Damschroder, Deborah Peikes and Dana Petersen

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

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

Variations in Classroom Language Environments of Preschool Children Who Are Low Income and Linguistically Diverse

Brook Sawyer, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Lia Sandilos, Carol Scheffner Hammer, Lisa Lopez and Clancy Blair

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

Alyson Burnett, Julieta Lugo-Gil and Sarah Avellar

Competitive Grant-Making: A Review of the Literature

Cara Orfield, Debra Lipson and Sheila Hoag

Findings from the Healthy Start National Evaluation: Phase II

Deborah Klein Walker and Margo Rosenbach

Associations Between Physical Activity and Metabolic Syndrome: Comparison Between Self-Report and Accelerometry

Jared M. Tucker, Gregory J. Welk, Nicholas K. Beyler and Youngwon Kim

Income and Health Insurance Coverage: Comparing the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS)

John L. Czajka

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Ignacio Martinez and Mariel Finucane

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

David Wittenburg, David R. Mann and Allison Thompkins

Longitudinal Experiences of an Early Cohort of Ticket to Work Participants

Gina Livermore, Allison Roche and Sarah Prenovitz

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

Community Tracking Survey of Households

John Hall

Do Carrots Work Better than Sticks? Results from the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration

Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer and Robert G. Wood

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

Xiao Zhang and Jia Pu

FFY 2013 Child Core Set Reporting in CARTS

Megan Thomas, Jason Williams and Michaela Vine

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

Dental Care Expenditures and Retirement

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

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

Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor