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Outlier Adjustments and Reporting Thresholds

Eric Schone

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

Competitive Grant-Making: A Review of the Literature

Cara Orfield, Debra Lipson and Sheila Hoag

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

Wenke Hwang, Wendy Weller, Henry Ireys and Gerard Anderson

Benefit Accuracy Measurement Methodology Evaluation

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

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

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

Allison V. Thompkins

Care Management for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

James M. Verdier

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

State of Utah, Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges

Jessica Mittler and Gary Hyzer

The Postretirement Well-Being of Workers With Disabilities

April Yanyuan Wu and Jody Schimmel Hyde

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

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

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

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

Allen L. Schirm

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

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

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

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

Maternity Group Homes Classification and Literature Review

Lara Hulsey

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

Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Richard Strouse

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

Betsy Santos, David DesRoches, John Chen and Yuhong Zheng

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

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2014

Kelsey Farson Gray and Shivani Kochhar

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

Peter Z. Schochet

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

Julie Bruch, Scott Baumgartner, Sarah Dolfin and Nan Maxwell

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

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

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

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

Lindsay Ochoa and Pamela Holcomb

State Strategies for Improving Child Support Outcomes for Incarcerated Parents

Delara Aharpour, Lindsay Ochoa, Jillian Stein and Marykate Zukiewicz

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

Julia Alamillo, Subuhi Asheer, Betsy Keating and Jean Knab

Designing Care Management Entities for Youth with Complex Behavioral Health Needs

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

Quality Support Coaching in LAUP: Findings from the 2011-2012 Program Year

Pamela Winston, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Lauren Akers, Yange Xue, Emily Moiduddin, Elisha Smith, Nikki Aikens, Julia Lyskawa, Rebecca Mason and Susan Sprachman

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

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

Karin Martinson, John Trutko and Debra Strong

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

Eric Schone and Randy Brown

Measuring School Climate Using the 2015 School Crime Supplement

Deborah Lessne, Christina Yanez and Michael Sinclair

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

Barriers to Primary Care

Bonnie O'Day and Holly Matulewicz

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

David Wittenburg, David R. Mann and Allison Thompkins

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 Low-Wage Workers and Their Labor Market Experiences: Evidence from the Mid- to Late 1990s (Executive Summary)

Peter Schochet and Anu Rangarajan

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

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

Medicare 101 and 201: Key Issues for State Programs for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

Julie Klebonis, Michelle Herman Soper and Jim Verdier

Healthy Indiana Plan: Lessons for Health Reform

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

Use of Mobile Technology by Frontline Health Workers to Promote Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Bihar, India

Suzan L. Carmichael, Kala Mehta, Sridhar Srikantiah, Tanmay Mahapatra, Indrajit Chaudhuri, Ramkrishnan Balakrishnan, Sharad Chaturvedi, Hina Raheel, Evan Borkum, Shamik Trehan, Yingjie Weng, Rajani Kaimal, Anitha Sivasankaran, Swetha Sridharan, Dana Rotz, Usha Kiran Tarigopula, Debarshi Bhattacharya, Yamini Atmavilas, Kevin T. Pepper, Anu Rangarajan, Gary L. Darmstadt and Ananya Study Group

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

Inter-Rater Reliability Analysis of Data to Document the Consultative Examination Process, Volume 2: Appendices

David Wittenburg, Debra Wright, Sloane Frost, Gordon Steinagle and Ron Fine

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

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

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

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

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

Moira McCullough, Lindsay Ochoa and Christina Clark Tuttle

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

John L. Czajka

Community Tracking Survey of Households

John Hall

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

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

Second-Generation Medicaid Managed Care: Can It Deliver?

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1997

Scott Cody and Laura Castner

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.

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

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

Peter Z. Schochet and Hanley S. Chiang

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

Return to Work in the Health Care Sector: Promising Practices and Success Stories

Jacob Denne, George Kettner and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

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

WIC Breastfeeding Policy Inventory

Sarah Forrestal, Ronette Briefel and James Mabli

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

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

Timothy Bruursema

Using State Tests for Evaluation Purposes

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

Awareness and Perceptions of Medicaid and SCHIP Among Low-Income Families with Uninsured Children: Findings from 2001

Genevieve Kenney, Jennifer Haley and Alexandra Tebay

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

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

Structuring Employment-Based Services Within Jail Spaces and Schedules

Jennifer Henderson-Frakes

Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of Information from the National Health Screening Program in Korea

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Suejin A. Lee and Wilfredo Lim

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

Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor

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

Dominick Esposito, Arnold Chen, Margaret Gerteis and Timothy Lake

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

Jennifer Romich Heather D. Hill and University of Washington

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

John Burghardt, Tim Silva and Lara Hulsey

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

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

Kimberly Boller and Jessica F. Harding

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

Thomas Fraker

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

Missing and Invalid Diagnosis Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Amy Mangum, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

How Much Are Medicaid Buy-In Participants Earning?

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

Pay for Performance: Lessons from Experience

Suzanne Felt-Lisk

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

Final Impacts of the Gender Matters Program

Kimberly V. Smith, Claire Dye, Dana Rotz, Elizabeth Cook, Kristina Rosinsky and Mindy Scott

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

Peter Z. Schochet

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

The Role of the Workforce System in Addressing the Opioid Crisis: A Resource Guide

Colleen Staatz, Michaela Vine, Crystal Blyler and Jillian Berk

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

Dana Rotz and Annalisa Mastri

Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations Program Snapshot: FaDSS

Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

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

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

Cara Orfield, Lauren Hula, Michael Barna and Sheila Hoag

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

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

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

Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

Characteristics of Academic-Affiliated Health Systems

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

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

Marsha Gold

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

Alan M. Hershey

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

Thomas Coen, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Philip Gleason

Investigation of Tests for the Difference of Two Spreads

Darryl Creel