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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

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

Implications of State Methods for Offering Personal Assistance Services

Laura Ruttner and Carol V. Irvin

Tips to Improve Medicare-Medicaid Integration Using D-SNPs: Designing an Integrated Summary of Benefits Document

Erin Weir Lakhmani and Alexandra Kruse

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

Exploring Mode Effects in a Panel Survey of New Businesses

Betsy Santos and David DesRoches

Pay for Performance: Lessons from Experience

Suzanne Felt-Lisk

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

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

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

Dominick Esposito, Arnold Chen, Margaret Gerteis and Timothy Lake

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

Thomas Coen, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Philip Gleason

National Survey of SSI Children and Families (NSCF)

Susan Mitchell

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

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

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

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

Reducing Job Loss among Workers with New Health Problems

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Jennifer Christian and David Stapleton

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

Second-Generation Medicaid Managed Care: Can It Deliver?

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

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

Marsha Gold, Jessica Mittler and Barbara Lyons

Evaluation of the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Program: Beneficiaries Served, Services Provided, and Program Costs, Appendix

Jody Schimmel, Bonnie O'Day, Allison Roche, Gina Livermore and Dominic Harris

Healthy Indiana Plan: Lessons for Health Reform

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

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

Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor

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

Investigation of Tests for the Difference of Two Spreads

Darryl Creel

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

Tasnuva Khan, Edward Weizenegger, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

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

Priyanka Anand and Purvi Sevak

Denial of Abortion in Legal Settings

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

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

James M. Verdier

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

Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Retirement Savings (Report)

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

Exploring the Policy Implications of High†Profile Police Violence

Johanna Lacoe and Jillian Stein

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

M. Robin Dion

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

Jody Schimmel and Gina Livermore

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

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

Peter Z. Schochet

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

Modernization of the Food Stamp Program in Florida

Scott Cody, Renee Nogales and Emily Sama-Martin

Using Supply- and Demand-Side Strategies to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Bihar, India: Process Evaluation Findings

Swetha Sridharan, Anu Rangarajan, Mercy Manoranjini and Sukhmani Sethi

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

Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending for Care of Chronic Conditions

Wenke Hwang, Wendy Weller, Henry Ireys and Gerard Anderson

Medicare's Less Visible Population: Disabled Beneficiaries under Age 65

Marsha Gold and Beth Stevens

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

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

Paolo Abarcar

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

Sarah A. Avellar, Steven Glazerman and Susan Sprachman

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

Building and Sustaining Physician Networks in Medi-Cal Managed Care and Healthy Families

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

Employment Outcomes for Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants Who Use Opioids

April Yanyuan Wu, Denise Hoffman, Paul O’Leary and Dara Lee Luca

PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Framework

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

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

Keith Kranker, Laura Blue and Lauren Vollmer Forrow

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

The Evaluation of the Alabama Food Stamp Cash-Out Demonstration Vol. 2: Administrative Outcomes, Overall Conclusions, and Appendices

Thomas M. Fraker, Alberto Martini, James C. Ohls, Michael Ponza and Elizabeth A. Quinn

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

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

Ghana Power Compact: Evaluation Design Report

Duncan Chaplin, Delia Welsh, Arif Mamun, Nick Ingwersen, Kristine Bos, Erin Crossett, Poonam Ravindranath, Dara Bernstein and William Derbyshire

Health Plans' Use of Physician Resource Use and Quality Measures

Timothy Lake, Margaret Colby and Stephanie Peterson

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

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

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

Ethan Jacobs

Survey Design for TANF Caseload Project: Summary Report and Recommendations

Martha Kovac, Robin Dion, Jason Markesich and Donna Pavetti

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

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

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

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

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

Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Richard Strouse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Findings from the Survey of Early Head Start Programs: Communities, Programs, and Families

Cheri Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Andrew Burwick, Laura Hawkinson, Angela Richardson, Linda Mendenko and Rachel Chazan-Cohen

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

Payment Rate Comparison Tool User Guide

Bridget Bernick

Federal and Local Efforts to Support Youth At-Risk of Homelessness

Emily Knas, Matthew Stagner and M.C. Bradley

How to Structure Implementation Supports

Karen Needels and Katie Eddins

Outlier Adjustments and Reporting Thresholds

Eric Schone

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2006

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

Synthetic Multiple-Imputation Procedure for Multistage Complex Samples

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

Race to the Top: Implementation and Relationship to Student Outcomes (In Focus)

Lisa Dragoset, Jaime Thomas, Mariesa Herrmann, John Deke, Susanne James-Burdumy, Cheryl Graczewski, Andrea Boyle, Courtney Tanenbaum, Jessica Giffin and Rachel Upton

Raising the Bar: Impacts and Implementation of the New Heights Program for Expectant and Parenting Teens in Washington, DC

Subuhi Asheer, Paul Burkander, John Deke, Julie Worthington and Susan Zief

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

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

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

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

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

Mary Hyde, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

Participation in Healthy San Francisco: Trends in Enrollment and Retention

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

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

Structuring Employment-Based Services Within Jail Spaces and Schedules

Jennifer Henderson-Frakes

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1997

Scott Cody and Laura Castner

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

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Enrolling Teenage AFDC Parents in Mandatory Education and Training Programs: Lessons from the Teenage Parent Demonstration

Alan M. Hershey

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

Spring 2012 State Interview Protocol

Various Authors

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

School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study: Study Design, Sampling, and Data Collection

Eric Zeidman, Nicholas Beyler, Elizabeth Gearan, Nikkilyn Morrison, Katherine Niland, Liana Washburn, Barbara Carlson, David Judkins, Lindsey LeClair, Michele Mendelson, Tara Wommack, Justin Carnagey, Maureen Murphy and Andre Williamson

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

Margo Rosenbach and Cheryl Young

The Unknown World of Charter High Schools

Kevin Booker, Tim Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer

Measuring Competitive Foods in Schools: A Point of Sales Approach

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

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

John Burghardt, Tim Silva and Lara Hulsey

Evaluation of Waivers Granted Under WIA

Gretchen Rowe, Brittany English, Cassandra Pickens-Jewell, Samina Sattar and Jessica Ziegler

We Can’t Be on the Sidelines: The Role of Human Services in Advancing Environmental Justice

Chloe Green, Alex Bauer, Colleen Psomas, Shaun Stevenson, Anu Rangarajan, Matthew Stagner and Jacque Gombach

Child Care Policy: Characteristics and Associations with Children's Development

Kimberly Boller and Jessica F. Harding

Health Promotion Finds a Place in Local Health Departments

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