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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

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

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

Julia Embry and Kate D'Anello

Missing and Invalid Diagnosis Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Amy Mangum, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

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

An Implementation Analysis of States' Experiences in Transitioning "Stairstep" Children from Separate CHIP to Medicaid

Cara Orfield, Sean Orzol and Lauren Hula

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

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

Dental Care Expenditures and Retirement

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

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

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

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

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

Outlier Adjustments and Reporting Thresholds

Eric Schone

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

Health Promotion Finds a Place in Local Health Departments

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

Sample Size Guide

Mikia Manley, Virginia Knechtel and Gregory Chojnacki

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

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

Peter Schochet

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

Many Routes to the Top: Efforts to Improve Care Quality, Coordination, and Costs Through Provider Collaborations

Ha Tu

Evaluation of Healthy San Francisco

Catherine McLaughlin, Margaret Colby, Erin Taylor, Mary Harrington, Tricia Higgins, Vivian Byrd and Laurie Felland

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Screening Identification Sheet

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

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

Roberto Agodini

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

Jennifer Romich Heather D. Hill and University of Washington

Evaluation of Health Care Innovation Awards (HCIA): Primary Care Redesign Programs First Annual Report, Volume II: Individual Program Summarires

Boyd Gilman, Sheila Hoag, Lorenzo Moreno, Greg Peterson, Linda Barterian, Laura Blue, Kristin Geonnotti, Tricia Higgins, Mynti Hossain, Lauren Hula, Rosalind Keith, Jennifer Lyons, Brenda Natzke, Brenna Rabel, Rumin Sarwar, Rachel Shapiro, Cara Stephanczuk, Victoria Peebles, KeriAnn Wells and Joseph Zickafoose

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

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

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

Medicaid Beneficiaries Using Mental Health or Substance Abuse Services in Fee-for-Service Plans in 13 States, 2003

Henry T. Ireys, Allison L. Barrett, Jeffrey A. Buck, Thomas W. Croghan, Melanie Au and Judith L. Teich

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

Alyson Burnett, Julieta Lugo-Gil and Sarah Avellar

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

Care Management for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

James M. Verdier

Exploring the Policy Implications of High†Profile Police Violence

Johanna Lacoe and Jillian Stein

The Community Solutions Initiative: Early Implementation Experiences

Diane Paulsell and Robert G. Wood

Measuring Competitive Foods in Schools: A Point of Sales Approach

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

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

Genevieve Kenney, Jennifer Haley and Alexandra Tebay

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

Mynti Hossain, Rebecca Coughlin and Joseph Zickafoose

Synthetic Multiple-Imputation Procedure for Multistage Complex Samples

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

Denial of Abortion in Legal Settings

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

State-Level Youth Unemployment Rates from 2019 to 2020

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

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

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

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

Marsha Gold and Beth Stevens

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

The Effects of Complications and Comorbidities on the Quality of Preventive Diabetes Care: A Literature Review

Leslie Jackson Conwell and Chad Boult

Benefit Accuracy Measurement Methodology Evaluation

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

The Postretirement Well-Being of Workers With Disabilities

April Yanyuan Wu and Jody Schimmel Hyde

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

Keith Kranker, Laura Blue and Lauren Vollmer Forrow

Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Retirement Savings (Report)

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

Promoting Access in Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care: A Toolkit for Ensuring Provider Network Adequacy and Service Availability

Debra J. Lipson, Jenna Libersky, Katharine Bradley, Corinne Lewis, Allison Wishon Siegwarth and Rebecca Lester

The Impact of Access Regulation on Health Insurance Market Structure

Deborah J. Chollet, Adele M. Kirk and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon

Frequently Asked Questions: Evaluation Start-Up

Susan Zief, Juliette Henke, John Deke, Russ Cole and Melissa Thomas

Reaching Those in Need: State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2009

Karen E. Cunnyngham

Final Impacts of the POWER Through Choices Program

Reginald D. Covington, Brian Goesling, Christina Clark Tuttle, Molly Crofton, Jennifer Manlove, Roy F. Oman and Sara Vesely

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Design Report

David Wittenburg, Kenneth Fortson, David Stapleton, Noelle Denny-Brown, Rosalind Keith, David R. Mann, Heinrich Hock and Heather Gordon

Evaluation of the SourceAmerica® Pathways to Careers™ Program (Fact Sheet)

Mathematica Policy Research

How Much Do the Effects of Education and Training Programs Vary Across Sites? Evidence from Past Multisite Randomized Trials

Michael J. Weiss, Howard S. Bloom, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Himani Gupta, Alma E. Vigil and Daniel N. Cullinan

Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: Research Connections Data Files

Helen Raikes and Anne Bloomenthal

Sources of MyPyramid Intakes Among School Children

Elizabeth M. Condon and Mary Kay Fox

Grid Electricity Expansion in Tanzania: Findings from a Rigorous Impact Evaluation (Issue Brief)

Arif Mamun, Duncan Chaplin, Ali Protik, John Schurrer, Divya Vohra, Kristine Bos, Hannah Burak, Laura Meyer and Anca Dumitrescu

Extending Medicaid Coverage to Low-Income Childless Adults: Opportunities and Cautions for Managed Care Plans

James M. Verdier

The Reaching the Working Poor and Poor Elderly Study: What We Learned and Recommendations for Future Research

Sheena McConnell and Michael Ponza

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: Florida Case Study

Sheila Hoag and Victoria Peebles

Five Key Considerations for Exploring the Medicaid Health Homes Opportunity

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

Facilitating Local Cross-Sector Collaboration: Strategies for Intermediaries

Kara Conroy, Mary Anne Anderson, Annalisa Mastri, Amanda Benton and Gretchen Lehman

Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees, 2005-2007

David Baugh and Shinu Verghese

Cross-Site Evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Grantees: Early Efforts to Build Infrastructure

Patricia Del Grosso, Debra Strong, Margaret Hargreaves, Diane Paulsell, Cheri Vogel, Heather Zaveri, Megan Hague Angus, Brandon Coffee-Borden and Kimberly Boller

Developing a Prescription for Physician Surveys

Janice Ballou, Julita Milliner-Waddell, Frank Potter and Brian Roff

How Does Value Added Compare to Student Growth Percentiles?

Elias Walsh and Eric Isenberg

Healthy Start: Health Education Plays a Key Role in Local Efforts

Mary Harrington and Barbara Foot

Transforming Business as Usual and Advancing Innovation Through Public-Private Partnerships

Delara Aharpour, Brittany English, Annalisa Mastri and Jason Perkins-Cohen

Offering Data Collection Incentives to Adults at Risk for Substance Use Disorder

Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo, Jacqueline Crowley, Lauren Maul and Debra Strong

Extending Medicaid Coverage to Low-Income Childless Adults: Opportunities and Cautions for Managed Care Plans (Presentation)

James M. Verdier

Charter High Schools' Effects on Educational Attainment and Earnings (Issue Brief)

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Tim Sass and Ron Zimmer

Learn, Innovate, Improve: Lessons from Mesa County's Efforts to Increase Engagement in the Colorado Works Program

Julie Worthington Hartnack, Shelley Grattan and Jerrie Julius

Data Analysis Considerations to Inform Medicaid Health Home Program Design

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

Leading the Way: Characteristics and Early Experiences of Selected Early Head Start Programs. Volume III: Program Implementation

Diane Paulsell, Ellen Eliason Kisker, John M. Love, Helen Raikes, Kimberly Boller, Linda Rosenberg, Kathleen Coolahan and Lisa J. Berlin

Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education for Expectant and New Mothers: The One-Year Impacts of MotherWise

Ankita Patnaik and Robert G. Wood

Do Disadvantaged Students Get Less Effective Teaching? Key Findings from Recent Institute of Education Sciences Studies (Evaluation Brief)

Jeffrey Max and Steven Glazerman

Crime and Private Investment in Urban Neighborhoods

Johanna Lacoe, Raphael Bostic and Arthur Acolin

Planning Section 1115 Demonstration Implementation to Enable Strong Evaluation Designs

James D. Reschovsky and Katharine Bradley

Employment Coaching: Evidence Snapshot

Lindsay Cattell, Jillian Stein and Dana Rotz

Challenges in Improving Care for High-Risk Seniors in Medicare: Lessons and Observations from Past Field Demonstrations

Marsha Gold, Timothy Lake, William E. Black and Mark Smith

Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs

Erin Fries Taylor, Lyndee Knox, Dana Petersen, Kristin Geonnotti and Rachel Machta

Progress Toward Comprehensive Contraceptive Access Through The Right Time in Missouri

So O'Neil, Emily Hoe and Maggie Magee

The Value of the Output and Services Produced by Students While Enrolled in Job Corps

Sheena McConnell

Implementing Eligibility Changes Under the Affordable Care Act: Issues Facing State Medicaid and CHIP Programs

Cheryl A. Camillo

Understanding the Effect of KIPP as it Scales: Volume I, Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes

Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Kevin Booker, Gregory Chojnacki, Thomas Coen and Lisbeth Goble

The ACA Medicaid Expansions and Employment of Adults With Disabilities

Purvi Sevak and Jody Schimmel Hyde

Cost-Effectiveness of HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program?

Ravi Goyal, Dara Luca, Pamela W. Klein, Eric Morris, Paul Mandsager, Stacy M. Cohen, Cindy Hu, John Hotchkiss, Jessica Gao, Andrew Jones, West Addison, Margaret O'Brien-Strain, Laura W. Cheever and Boyd Gilman

Self-Regulation Training Approaches and Resources to Improve Staff Capacity for Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth: Executive Summary

Scott Baumgartner, Aly Frei, Diane Paulsell, Mindy Herman-Stahl, Rebecca Dunn and Chelsea Yamamoto

Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education: A Review of the Literature

Pia Caronongan, Gretchen Kirby, Kimberly Boller, Emily Modlin and Julia Lyskawa

Resilience in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the Boston Children’s Collaboration for Community Health

So O'Neil and Allison Steiner

Income Variability Among Families with Pregnant Women, Infants, or Young Children

Anne Gordon, Kimball Lewis and Larry Radbill

Surveying Persons with Disabilities: A Source Guide, Version I

Jason Markesich, James Cashion and Martha Bleeker

Association Between Enhanced Access Services in Pediatric Primary Care and Utilization of Emergency Departments: A National Parent Survey

Joseph S. Zickafoose, Lisa R. DeCamp and Lisa A. Prosser

Effects of Compliance with the Early Management Bundle (SEP-1) on Mortality Changes among Medicare Beneficiaries with Sepsis: A Propensity Score Matched Cohort Study

Sean R. Townsend, Gary S. Phillips, Reena Duseja, Lemeneh Tefera, Derek Cruikshank, Robert Dickerson, Bryant Nguyen, Christa A. Schorr, Mitchell M. Levy, Phillip Dellinger, William A. Conway, Warren S. Browner and Emanuel P. Rivers

Data Missingness in the Michigan NEMSIS (MI-EMSIS) Dataset: A Mixed-Methods Study

Mahshid Abir, Rekar K. Taymour, Jason E. Goldstick, Rosalie Malsberger, Jane Forman, Stuart Hammond and Kathy Wahl

The Children of LAUP: Executive Summary of the First 5 LA Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study

John M. Love, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Cheri Vogel

The Narrative Communications Project: Takeaway Findings on a Message-Framing Approach

Sheila Hoag, Victoria Peebles, Christopher Trenholm and Gene Lewit

How Desegregation Changed Us: The Effects of Racially Mixed Schools on Students and Society

Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Anita Tijerina Revilla and Awo Korantemaa Atanda