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What Impact HIPAA? State Regulation and Private Health Insurance Coverage Among Adults

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

Federal Programs for Persons with Disabilities

Brian O. Burwell, Bonnie Preston and Sarah Bailey

Measurement Error in Household Surveys: Sources and Measurement

Daniel Kasprzyk

WHD Compliance Strategies: Directions for Future Research

Sarah Dolfin, Nan Maxwell and Ankita Patnaik

Oral Health Promotion, Prevention, and Treatment Strategies for Head Start Families: Early Findings from the Oral Health Initiative Evaluation Volume I Final Interim Report

Patricia Del Grosso, Amy Brown, Heather Zaveri, Sandra Silva, Beth Zimmerman, Anne Hopewell and Diane Paulsell

Impact Evaluation Findings After One Year of the Productive and Business Services Activity of the Productive Development Project, El Salvador

Randall Blair, Larissa Campuzano, Lorenzo Moreno and Seth Morgan

Mental Health Services in Special Needs Plans: Integrated Care for Persons with Mental Disorders

James M. Verdier

What I Learned at My Daughter’s School

Paul Decker

Learning from State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies on the Eve of WIOA: State Differences in Service Receipt and Employment Outcomes by Applicant Employment Status

David R. Mann and Sarah Croake

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

Child Support Cooperation Requirements in Child Care Subsidy Programs and SNAP: Key Policy Considerations

Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

Health Care Coverage and Access for Children in Low-Income Families: Stakeholder Perspectives from Colorado

Tricia Collins Higgins and Karina Wagnerman

Surveying Persons with Disabilities: A Source Guide, Version I

Jason Markesich, James Cashion and Martha Bleeker

Psychiatric Versus Physical Disabilities: A Comparison of Barriers and Facilitators to Employment

Purvi Sevak and Shamima Khan

Employment Coaching: Evidence Snapshot

Lindsay Cattell, Jillian Stein and Dana Rotz

Surveying Consumer Satisfaction to Assess Managed-Care Quality: Current Practices

Marsha Gold and Judith Wooldridge

Random Assignment

Charles E. Metcalf and Craig Thornton

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

National Evaluation of Healthy Start: Year 2 Annual Report

Barbara Devaney, David Edson, Barbara Foot, Embry Howell, Marie McCormick, Lorenzo Moreno, Ian Hill and Luke Henderson

The Impact of Access Regulation on Health Insurance Market Structure

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

State Policies to Encourage High-Deductible and Limited-Benefit Health Plans: Costs, Constituents, and Concerns

Lynn Quincy

The ACA Medicaid Expansions and Employment of Adults With Disabilities

Purvi Sevak and Jody Schimmel Hyde

School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study Final Report Volume 1: School Meal Program Operations and School Nutrition Environments

Sarah Forrestal, Charlotte Cabili, Dallas Dotter, Christopher W. Logan, Patricia Connor, Maria Boyle, Ayesha Enver and Hiren Nissar

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

Anne Gordon, Kimball Lewis and Larry Radbill

The Vocational Rehabilitation Program Evaluation Coach (Issue Brief)

Rachel Miller and Todd Honeycutt

Review of SoonerCare Behavioral Health Services

Melanie Au and James Verdier

Implementation and Impacts of the Substantial Gainful Activity Project Demonstration in Kentucky

Frank Martin and Purvi Sevak

Summer Feeding Design Study, Vol. I: Design and Costs for Program Component

Ronette Briefel, Michael Sinclair, Laura Kalb, Anne Gordon, Fazana Saleem-Ismail and amd Martha Kovac

State Variation in Out-of-Home Medicaid Mental Health Services for Children and Youth: An Examination of Residential Treatment and Inpatient Hospital Services

Jonathan Brown, Brenda Natzke, Henry Ireys, Matthew Gillingham and Morris Hamilton

Time-Limited Benefits Before Permanent SSDI Disability Benefits

Purvi Sevak and Stephanie Rosenbluth

Developing Capitation Rates for Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs: State Considerations

Debra Lipson, Maria Dominiak, Michelle Herman Soper and Brianna Ensslin

Using Paradata for Nonresponse Weighting Adjustments

Donsig Jang, Amang Sukasih, Kelly H. Kang and Stephen H. Cohen

Empathic Concern for Children and the Gender-Donations Gap

Jordan van Rijn, Esteban J. Quiñones and Bradford L. Barham

Medicaid Access Tool User Guide

Mathematica Policy Research

Sources of MyPyramid Intakes Among School Children

Elizabeth M. Condon and Mary Kay Fox

Interim Report on Grants Under the ENRM Project in Malawi

Kristen Velyvis, Thomas Coen, Irina Cheban, Naomi Dorsey and Arif Mamun

Effects of a Nursing Home Telehealth Program on Spending and Utilization for Medicare Residents

Evelyn Li, Mynti Hossain, Boyd Gilman, Lauren Vollmer Forrow, Katie Morrison Lee and Randall Brown

Quality Dosage, Thresholds, and Features in Early Childhood Settings: Literature Review Tables

Martha Zaslow, Rachel Anderson, Zakia Redd, Julia Wessel, Louisa Tarullo and Margaret Burchinal

SMI Innovations Project: Southeast Pennsylvania Case Study

Tricia Collins Higgins, Jung Y. Kim, Dominick Esposito and Angela M. Gerolamo

Rapid-Cycle Evaluation (In Focus)

Mathematica Policy Research

Taking a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program to the Home: The AIM 4 Teen Moms Experience (Executive Summary)

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

Dynamics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation from 2008 to 2012 (Testimony)

Stephen Tordella and James Mabli

Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs

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

Choosing the Right Formula

Allen L. Schirm

Considerations in Designing Personal Health Records for Underserved Populations

Ann Bagchi, Lorenzo Moreno and Raquel af Ursin

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

Conceptual Frameworks for Intentional Approaches to Improving Economic Security and Child Well-Being

Teresa Eckrich Sommer, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Emily Sama-Miller, Christine Ross and Scott Baumgartner

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

Measuring Implementation to Understand Supports for Quality in Early Care and Education Centers

Gretchen Kirby, Shannon Monahan and Julia Lyskawa

Recent Practice/Future Possibilities: A Survey of Practitioners in International Commercial Arbitration

Grace Farrell Roemer, Melissa Miller and Martha Kovac

The Robustness of Estimates of the Distribution of Usual Dietary Intake to Alternative Sample Sizes

Sheena McConnell

Promoting Children's Healthy Activity in LAUP Programs

Susan Sprachman, Emily Moiduddin and Sally Atkins- Burnett

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

Mary Harrington and Barbara Foot

Training Enrollment and Completion: By the Numbers (Infographic)

Annalisa Mastri and Dana Rotz

National Assessment of Title I Final Report Volume II: Closing the Reading Gap: Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers (Appendices)

Joseph Torgesen, Allen Schirm, Laura Castner, Sonya Vartivarian, Wendy Mansfield, David Myers, Fran Stancavage, Donna Durno, Rosanne Javorsky and Cinthia Haan

Informal Caregivers Research Project: Characteristics, Networks, and Needs of Informal Caregivers and Parents in California

Jaime Thomas, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Kimberly Boller and Madeline Young

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

Dietary Intake and Dietary Attitudes Among Food Stamp Participants and Other Low-Income Individuals

Philip M. Gleason, Anu Rangarajan and Christine Olson

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

Advancing Integrated Care for Dually Eligible Individuals: Factors Influencing State D-SNP Contracting Decisions

Erin Weir Lakhmani, Danielle Chelminsky, Alena Tourtellotte, Alyssa Bosold, Debra Lipson and James Verdier

Letter to Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking

Paul Decker

Outcomes Following Termination of Social Security Disability Insurance

Michael Anderson, Monica Farid, Serge Lukashanets, Denise Hoffman and Kai Filion

Low-Cost, Low-Administrative Burden: Ways to Better Integrate Care for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

Integrated Care Resource Center

SSI Youth Formative Research Project: Considerations for Identifying Promising and Testable Interventions

Todd Honeycutt, David Wittenburg, Kelli Crane, Michael Levere, Richard Luecking and David Stapleton

An Access Monitoring System (AMS) for Medicare Beneficiaries

Various Authors

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

Does Health Information Exchange Reduce Redundant Imaging? Evidence from Emergency Departments

Eric J. Lammers, Julia Adler-Milstein and Keith E. Kocher

US Approaches to Physician Payment: The Deconstruction of Primary Care

Robert A. Berenson and Eugene C. Rich

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

Lea Nolan, Angela Merrill and Gary Hyzer

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Design Report

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

National Job Corps Study: Eligible Applicants' Perspectives on Job Corps Outreach and Admissions

Peter Schochet

Partially Nested Randomized Controlled Trials in Education Research: A Guide to Design and Analysis

Sharon Lohr, Peter Z. Schochet and Elizabeth Sanders

Understanding Associations Between Low-Income Mothers' Participation in Education and Parenting

Jessica Harding, Pamela A. Morris and Jennifer Hill

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

Cheryl A. Camillo

Nonexperimental Versus Experimental Estimates of Earnings Impacts

Steven Glazerman, Dan M. Levy and David Myers

Case Study of Oregon: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and their Links to Policy and Practice

Brigette Courtot, Ian Hill and Chris Trenholm

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

Sheila Hoag and Victoria Peebles

Non-Cash Categorical Eligibility for SNAP: State Policies and the Number and Characteristics of SNAP Households Categorically Eligible Through Those Policies

Carole Trippe and Jessica Gillooly

Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC): Descriptive Study of Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (TQRIS)

Gretchen Kirby, Pia Caronongan, Andrea Mraz Esposito, Lauren Murphy, Megan Shoji, Patricia Del Grosso, Wamaitha Kiambuthi and Melissa Clark

Best Practices in Coordinated Care

Arnold Chen, Randall Brown, Nancy Archibald, Sherry Aliotta and Peter D. Fox

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

Case Study of Louisiana's Express Lane Eligibility

Stan Dorn, Margaret Wilkinson and Sara Benatar

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

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

Improving Food Environments in Schools: Tracking Progress

Mary Kay Fox

COVID-19 and Youth Unemployment by Gender and Age

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Wisconsin PROMISE Process Analysis Report

Rebekah Selekman, Mary Anne Anderson, Todd Honeycutt, Karen Katz, Jacqueline Kauff, Joseph Mastrianni and Adele Rizzuto

Enrollment, Employment, and Earnings in the Medicaid Buy-In Program, 2011

Matthew Kehn

Assessing the Evidence Base: Strategies That Support Employment for Low-Income Adults

Emily Sama-Miller, Alyssa Maccarone, Annalisa Mastri and Kelley Borradaile

Meaningful Use and Medical Home Functionality in Primary Care Practice

Diane R. Rittenhouse, James A. Wiley, Lars E. Peterson, Lawrence P. Casalino and Robert L. Phillips

An Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers: Study Highlights

Pamela Holcomb, Linda Rosenberg, Elizabeth Brown, Brittney English, Kate Dunham and Hannah Betesh

Accounting for Geographic Variation in DI and SSI Participation

Jack Gettens, Pei-Pei Lei and Alexis Henry

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

Evaluation of Short-Time Compensation Programs: Data Set

Stephen Walsh, Rebecca A. London, Deana McCanne, Karen Needels, Walter Nicholson and Stuart Kerachsky

Process and Implementation Issues in the Design and Conduct of Programs to Aid The Reemployment and Dislocated Workers

Walter Corson and Rebecca Maynard Jack Wichita

State Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Eligibility and Participation Among Elderly Individuals

Karen Cunnyngham

Iowa's Family Investment Program: Impacts During the First 3 1/2 Years of Welfare Reform

Thomas M. Fraker and Jonathan E. Jacobson

Developing a Prescription for Physician Surveys

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

Aspects of Health Reform: Contributions from the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured

Catherine McLaughlin, Helen Levy and Brian Quinn

Measurement and Evaluation Plan Template

Kate Place, Gregory Chojnacki, Virginia Knechtel, Andy Gothro, Megan Shoji and Lindsay Fox