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Design of the Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community Initiative

Scott Cody, Alison Wellington and Duncan Chaplin

Pay for Performance: Lessons from Experience

Suzanne Felt-Lisk

Spring 2012 State Interview Protocol

Various Authors

Conducting InDepth Assessments

LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle Derr and Emily Sama Martin

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

Jody Schimmel and Gina Livermore

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

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

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

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

Lea Nolan, Jessica Mittler and Ben Marglin

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

Jane Fortson

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

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

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2006

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

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

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

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 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

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

The Postretirement Well-Being of Workers With Disabilities

April Yanyuan Wu and Jody Schimmel Hyde

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

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

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

Esa Eslami, Joshua Leftin and Mark Strayer

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

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

Evaluation of Waivers Granted Under WIA

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

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

Thomas Coen, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Philip Gleason

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

How Does Insurance Coverage Improve Health Outcomes?

Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet and Stephanie Peterson

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

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

A Guide to Emerging Strategies for Promoting Prevention and Improving Oral Health Care Delivery in Head Start: Lessons from the Oral Health Initiative Evaluation, Volume II

Patricia Del Grosso, Amy Brown, Sandra Silva, Jamila Henderson, Naomi Tein and Diane Paulsell

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2014

Kelsey Farson Gray and Shivani Kochhar

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

Outlier Adjustments and Reporting Thresholds

Eric Schone

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

Peter Schochet

Measuring School Climate Using the 2015 School Crime Supplement

Deborah Lessne, Christina Yanez and Michael Sinclair

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

Dana Rotz and Annalisa Mastri

Tracking Performance of the Medicare+Choice Program: Results from the 1998 and 1999 Medicare CAHPS Survey

Timothy Lake and Margo Rosenbach

Exploring the Policy Implications of High†Profile Police Violence

Johanna Lacoe and Jillian Stein

Care Management for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

James M. Verdier

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

M. Robin Dion

Implications of State Methods for Offering Personal Assistance Services

Laura Ruttner and Carol V. Irvin

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

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

Jacob Hartog, Sarah Wissel, Annalisa Mastri and Kelley Borradaile

Food Stamp Program Entry and Exit: Participation Trends in the 1990s (Presentation)

Scott Cody, Phil Gleason, Bruce Schechter, Miki Satake and Julie Sykes

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

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

Margo Rosenbach and Cheryl Young

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

Laura Damschroder, Deborah Peikes and Dana Petersen

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

Health Promotion Finds a Place in Local Health Departments

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

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

Mental Health Benefits Under SCHIP

Embry M. Howell, Jeffrey A. Buck and Judith L. Teich

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

Genevieve Kenney, Jennifer Haley and Alexandra Tebay

Missing and Invalid Diagnosis Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Amy Mangum, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

Maternity Group Homes Classification and Literature Review

Lara Hulsey

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

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

Exploring Staff Time Use in 30 Early Care and Education Centers

Katie Gonzalez and Pia Caronongan

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

Ali Stieglitz and Amy Johnson

Transfer Incentives for High-Performing Teachers: Results from a Multisite Randomized Experiment

Steven Glazerman, Ali Protik, Bing-ru Teh, Julie Bruch and Jeffrey Max

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

Payment Rate Comparison Tool User Guide

Bridget Bernick

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

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

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

Mary Hyde, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

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

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

Timothy Bruursema

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1997

Scott Cody and Laura Castner

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

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

Julia Embry and Kate D'Anello

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

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

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

Erin Weir Lakhmani and Alexandra Kruse

Making Connections: Using Social Network Analysis for Program Evaluation

Todd Honeycutt

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

Jessica Mittler and Gary Hyzer

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

Nan Maxwell, Ann Person and Julie Bruch

Interactions Between Survey Estimates and Federal Funding Formulas

Alan Zaslavsky and Allen Schirm

Kentucky’s SGA Project Demonstration: An Interim Evaluation Report

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

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

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

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

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

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

Longitudinal Experiences of an Early Cohort of Ticket to Work Participants

Gina Livermore, Allison Roche and Sarah Prenovitz

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

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

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

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

Philip M. Gleason and Allison Hedley Dodd

Investigation of Tests for the Difference of Two Spreads

Darryl Creel

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

Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor

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

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

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

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

Debra Strong, Debra Lipson, Todd Honeycutt and Jung Kim

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

Building from Success

Rosalind Keith, Nuzhat Islam, Rumin Sarwar and Cay Bradley

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

Dominick Esposito, Arnold Chen, Margaret Gerteis and Timothy Lake

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

Early Implementation Experiences of State MFP Programs

Noelle Denny-Brown and Debra J. Lipson

State-Level Youth Unemployment Rates from 2019 to 2020

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

Competitive Grant-Making: A Review of the Literature

Cara Orfield, Debra Lipson and Sheila Hoag

How to Structure Implementation Supports

Karen Needels and Katie Eddins

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

Emily Knas, Matthew Stagner and M.C. Bradley