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

Marsha Gold and Beth Stevens

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

Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Unwed Parents

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

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

Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), 1992-2001

Robert Schmitz

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

Emily Knas, Matthew Stagner and M.C. Bradley

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

Peter Schochet

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

Denial of Abortion in Legal Settings

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

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

Julia Embry and Kate D'Anello

Exploring the Policy Implications of High†Profile Police Violence

Johanna Lacoe and Jillian Stein

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

Xiao Zhang and Jia Pu

Consumer Engagement in Health IT: Distinguishing Rhetoric from Reality

Marsha Gold, Mynti Hossain and Amy Mangum

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

Marsha Gold

WIC Breastfeeding Policy Inventory

Sarah Forrestal, Ronette Briefel and James Mabli

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

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

Maternity Group Homes Classification and Literature Review

Lara Hulsey

The Community Solutions Initiative: Early Implementation Experiences

Diane Paulsell and Robert G. Wood

Evaluating the HCIA - Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse Awards: Addendum to the Third Annual Report

Henry Ireys, Ellen Bouchery, Crystal Blyler, Tricia Higgins, Michael Barna, Dan Friend, Matt Kehn, Jennifer Lyons, Rachel Miller, Brenda Natzke, Laura Ruttner, Allison Siegwarth, Michaela Vine and Aparajita Zutshi

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

Karin Martinson, John Trutko and Debra Strong

Synthetic Multiple-Imputation Procedure for Multistage Complex Samples

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

Healthy Indiana Plan: Lessons for Health Reform

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

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

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

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

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

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

Early Implementation Experiences of State MFP Programs

Noelle Denny-Brown and Debra J. Lipson

Benefit Accuracy Measurement Methodology Evaluation

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

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

James M. Verdier

Exploring Staff Time Use in 30 Early Care and Education Centers

Katie Gonzalez and Pia Caronongan

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1997

Scott Cody and Laura Castner

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

Using State Tests for Evaluation Purposes

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

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

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

Pam Winston

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Ignacio Martinez and Mariel Finucane

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

Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

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

Peter Schochet and Anu Rangarajan

Reducing Job Loss among Workers with New Health Problems

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Jennifer Christian and David Stapleton

Three Independent Evaluations of Healthy Kids Programs Find Substantial Gains in Children's Dental Health Care

Dana Hughes, Embry Howell, Christopher Trenholm, Ian Hill and Lisa Dubay

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

Peter Z. Schochet

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

Esa Eslami, Joshua Leftin and Mark Strayer

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

Interactions Between Survey Estimates and Federal Funding Formulas

Alan Zaslavsky and Allen Schirm

Kauffman School Evaluation Long-Term Outcomes Report: Year 2

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

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

Anu Rangarajan and Amy Johnson

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

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2014

Kelsey Farson Gray and Shivani Kochhar

Health Plans' Use of Physician Resource Use and Quality Measures

Timothy Lake, Margaret Colby and Stephanie Peterson

CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Help School-Based Health Centers Strengthen their Medical Home Features (Brief)

Mynti Hossain, Rebecca Coughlin and Joseph Zickafoose

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

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

Priyanka Anand, Yonatan Ben-Shalom and Eric Schone

Competitive Grant-Making: A Review of the Literature

Cara Orfield, Debra Lipson and Sheila Hoag

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

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

Implications of State Methods for Offering Personal Assistance Services

Laura Ruttner and Carol V. Irvin

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

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

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

Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Richard Strouse

Impacts of Uncommon Schools in a Turnaround Setting

Alyson Burnett, Moira McCullough and Breyon Williams

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

Second-Generation Medicaid Managed Care: Can It Deliver?

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

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

Nan Maxwell, Ann Person and Julie Bruch

New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Stakeholders' Forum

Janice Ballou, David Frank, Audrey McDonald and Julie Rothbard

Dental Care Expenditures and Retirement

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

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

Wenke Hwang, Wendy Weller, Henry Ireys and Gerard Anderson

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

Eric Schone and Randy Brown

Building from Success

Rosalind Keith, Nuzhat Islam, Rumin Sarwar and Cay Bradley

Teacher Bonuses for Extra Work: A Profile of Missouri's Career Ladder Program

Timothy Silman and Steven Glazerman

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

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

Debra Strong, Debra Lipson, Todd Honeycutt and Jung Kim

Longitudinal Experiences of an Early Cohort of Ticket to Work Participants

Gina Livermore, Allison Roche and Sarah Prenovitz

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

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

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

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

Ali Stieglitz and Amy Johnson

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

Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor

Payment Rate Comparison Tool User Guide

Bridget Bernick

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

How Does Insurance Coverage Improve Health Outcomes?

Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet and Stephanie Peterson

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

Timothy Bruursema

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

Philip M. Gleason and Allison Hedley Dodd

State Strategies for Improving Child Support Outcomes for Incarcerated Parents

Delara Aharpour, Lindsay Ochoa, Jillian Stein and Marykate Zukiewicz

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

Betsy Santos, David DesRoches, John Chen and Yuhong Zheng

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

Spring 2012 State Interview Protocol

Various Authors

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

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

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

Design of the Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community Initiative

Scott Cody, Alison Wellington and Duncan Chaplin

Case Management: At the Heart of Healthy Start

Barbara Devaney, Embry Howell and Marie McCormick

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

Missing and Invalid Diagnosis Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Amy Mangum, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

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

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

Jessica Mittler and Gary Hyzer

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

Colleen Staatz, Michaela Vine, Crystal Blyler and Jillian Berk

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

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

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

John Burghardt, Tim Silva and Lara Hulsey

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

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

Julie Klebonis, Michelle Herman Soper and Jim Verdier