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Replicating Home Visiting Programs with Fidelity: Baseline Data and Preliminary Findings

Deborah Daro, Bonnie Hart, Kimberly Boller and M.C. Bradley

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

Donated Care Programs: A Stopgap Measure or a Long-Run Alternative to Health Insurance?

Jeffrey T. Kullgren, Erin Fries Taylor and Catherine G. McLaughlin

How Community Colleges Address Basic Needs and Financial Stability of Low-Income Students to Boost College Completion: Lessons from the Working Students Success Network

Margaret Sullivan, Derek V. Price, Lindsay Fox and Ann Person

Researchers Speak: Insights about Family Stability and Self-Sufficiency, A Viewer's Guide

Scott W. Allard, Greg Fabiano, Colleen Heflin, Jodi Sandfort and Valerie Uccellani

Structural Components of Integrated Behavioral Health Care: A Comparison of National Programs

Matthew L. Goldman, Deborah M. Scharf, Jonathan Brown, Sarah H. Scholle and Harold A. Pincus

Evaluation of the Niger Education and Community Strengthening Program, Design Report

Emilie Bagby, Evan Borkum, Anca Dumitrescu and Matt Sloan

Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees, 2005-2007

David Baugh and Shinu Verghese

Effects of Team-Based Goals and Non-Monetary Incentives on Front-Line Health Worker Performance and Maternal Health Behaviours: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial in Bihar, India

Suzan L. Carmichael, Kala Mehta, Hina Raheel, Sridhar Srikantiah, Indrajit Chaudhuri, Shamik Trehan, Sunil Mohanty, Evan Borkum, Tanmay Mahapatra, Yingjie Weng, Rajani Kaimal, Anita Sivasankaran, Swetha Sridharan, Dana Rotz, Usha Kiran Tarigopula, Debarshi Bhattacharya, Yamini Atmavilas, Wolfgang Munar, Anu Rangarajan and Gary L. Darmstadt

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

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

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

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Design Report

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

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Buffalo Promise Neighborhood

Lara Hulsey and Kimberly Boller

The Impact of Access Regulation on Health Insurance Market Structure

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

National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 7: Public Use File Codebook

Kim McDonald, Aleks Wec, Ryan Callahan, Jason Markesich, Bevin Mory and Eric Grau

Home Visiting Programs: Reviewing Evidence of Effectiveness (Brief)

Emily Sama-Miller, Lauren Akers, Andrea Mraz-Esposito, Marykate Zukiewicz, Sarah Avellar, Diane Paulsell and Patricia Del Grosso

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

Helen Raikes and Anne Bloomenthal

Report on Survey Methods for the Community Tracking Study's 1998-1999 Round Two Household Survey

Richard Strouse, Barbara Carlson and John Hall

Measurement Error in Household Surveys: Sources and Measurement

Daniel Kasprzyk

Time-Limited Benefits Before Permanent SSDI Disability Benefits

Purvi Sevak and Stephanie Rosenbluth

Coverage Advocacy Can Be Sustained After the Funding Ends

Beth Stevens and Sheila Hoag

Strategic Data Project and Education Pioneers Year 1 Report: Laying the Groundwork for Data-Driven Decision Making

Kristin Hallgren, Cassie Pickens Jewell, Celina Kamler, Jacob Hartog and Andrew Gothro

Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence: Compiling Evidence and Supporting Communities in Vaccine Acceptance and Distribution

Brigitte Manteuffel and Julie Schilz

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

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

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Tim Sass and Ron Zimmer

Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review (Executive Summary)

Emily Sama-Miller, Lauren Akers, Andrea Mraz-Esposito, Sarah Avellar, Diane Paulsell and Patricia Del Grosso

Demonstrated Interest: Signaling Behavior in College Admissions

James A. Dearden, Suhui Li, Chad Meyerhoefer and Muzhe Yang

What I Learned at My Daughter’s School

Paul Decker

COVID-19 and Youth Unemployment by Gender and Age

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles: Characteristics, Care Needs, and Costs

James M. Verdier

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

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

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

Karen E. Cunnyngham

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

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

Feeding Low-Income Children When School Is Out: The Summer Food Service Program

Anne Gordon, Ronette Briefel, Karen Needels, Nancy Wemmerus, Teresa Zavitsky, Randy Rosso, Tania Tasse, Laura Kalb, Anne Peterson and Darryl Creel

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

Catherine McLaughlin, Helen Levy and Brian Quinn

How States and Institutions Can Work Together to Serve Adult Learners: Lessons from Adult Promise

Ann Person, Julie Bruch and Ashley Hong

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

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

An Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers: Study Highlights

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

The Vocational Rehabilitation Program Evaluation Coach (Issue Brief)

Rachel Miller and Todd Honeycutt

The Role of Social Networks Among Low-Income Fathers: Findings from the PACT Evaluation

Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo, Emily Knas, Pamela Holcomb and Kathryn Edin

Informal Child Care in Philadelphia

Megan Hague Angus, Mynti Hossain and Cleo Jacobs Johnson

Measurement and Evaluation Plan Template

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

Replicating Experimental Impact Estimates Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach

Philip M. Gleason, Alexandra M. Resch and Jillian A. Berk

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

Cost-Effectiveness of Endocrine Therapy Versus Radiotherapy Versus Combined Endocrine and Radiotherapy for Older Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Stephanie B. Wheeler, Jason Rotter, Christopher D. Baggett, Xi Zhou, Timothy Zagar and Katherine E. Reeder-Hayes

Choosing the Right Formula

Allen L. Schirm

Keeping Youth Out of the Deep End of the Juvenile Justice System

Todd Honeycutt, Janine Zweig, Megan Hague Angus, Sino Esthappan, Johanna Lacoe, Leah Sakala and Douglas Young

Ticket to Work Participant Characteristics and Outcomes Under the Revised Regulations

Gina A. Livermore, Denise Hoffman and Maura Bardos

Spring 2013 State Interview Protocol

Mathematica Staff

Universal Engagement in Practice: Lessons from the Implementation of the Pathways Case Management System

LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle Derr, Jacqueline Kauff and Gretchen Kirby

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: A Case Study of Californias Healthy Families Program

Ian Hill, Sarah Benatar and Juliana Macri

Elementary School Data Issues: Implications for Research Using Value-Added Models

Eric Isenberg, Bing-ru Teh and Elias Walsh

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2014 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel

Alma Vigil, Kelsey Farson Gray, Shivani Kochhar and Bruce Schechter

Planning Section 1115 Demonstration Implementation to Enable Strong Evaluation Designs

James D. Reschovsky and Katharine Bradley

Head Start Families’ Program Selection and Experiences

Natalie Reid, Nikki Aikens, Addison Larson, Louisa Tarullo, Judy Cannon and Lizabeth Malone

Outcomes Following Termination of Social Security Disability Insurance

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

Understanding American Indian and Alaska Native Early Childhood Needs: The Potential of Existing Data

Lizabeth Malone, Emily Knas, Sara Bernstein and Lindsay Read Feinberg

Medicaid Access Tool User Guide

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Development of the Uncertainty Communication Checklist: A Patient-Centered Approach to Patient Discharge From the Emergency Department

Kristin L. Rising, Rhea E. Powell, Kenzie A. Cameron, David H. Salzman, Dimitrios Papanagnou, Amanda M.B. Doty, Lori Latimer, Katherine Piserchia, William C. McGaghie and Danielle M. McCarthy

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2014 (Summary)

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

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

School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children

Committee on Nutrition Standards for National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs of which Mary Kay Fox is a Member

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

Thomas M. Fraker and Jonathan E. Jacobson

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

SMI Innovations Project: Southeast Pennsylvania Case Study

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

Accelerating Teen Pregnancy Prevention in Phillips County, Arkansas and Coahoma County, Mississippi

Katie Adamek, Sarah Bardin, So O'Neil and Dara Lee Luca

Building Strong Families: The Evaluation Design

Sheena McConnell, Robert Wood, Barbara Devaney, Sarah Avellar, M. Robin Dion and Heather H. Zaveri

QRS Profile: Virginia Star Quality Initiative

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

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

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

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

Sheila Hoag, Victoria Peebles, Christopher Trenholm and Gene Lewit

Utilization of Dental Services Among Medicaid-Enrolled Children

Ellen Bouchery

Scaling Programs with Research Evidence and Effectiveness (SPREE)

Nan Maxwell and Scott Richman

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

Empathic Concern for Children and the Gender-Donations Gap

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

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

School-Age Children Income-Eligible for Child Nutrition Programs in Multiple-Month Periods by Type of Benefit, Based on 2004 SIPP Panel Core Data Waves 8, 9, and 10 (Analysis Period: July–October 2006)

Carole Trippe and Joel Smith

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

James M. Verdier

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

Mary Harrington and Barbara Foot

Letter to Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking

Paul Decker

Using Paradata for Nonresponse Weighting Adjustments

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

Progress Toward Comprehensive Contraceptive Access Through The Right Time in Missouri

So O'Neil, Emily Hoe and Maggie Magee

Sampling Children for a Study of the State Children's Health Insurance Program

Mourad Touzani, Frank Potter and Amy Zambrowski

Shrinkage of Value-Added Estimates and Characteristics of Students with Hard-to-Predict Achievement Levels (Journal Article)

Mariesa Herrmann, Elias Walsh and Eric Isenberg

An Access Monitoring System (AMS) for Medicare Beneficiaries

Various Authors

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

Changing Education Agencies from the Inside Out: Year 2 Report on the Strategic Data Project and Education Pioneers

Cassie Pickens Jewell, Libby Makowsky, Kristin Hallgren and Jacob Hartog

Medicaid Section 1915(c) Waiver Programs Annual Expenditures and Beneficiaries Report, 2017-2018

Jessica Ross, Kristie Liao and Andrea Wysocki

Inter-Rater Reliability Analysis of Data to Document the Consultative Examination Process, Volume 1

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

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

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

Sheena McConnell

Federal Programs for Persons with Disabilities

Brian O. Burwell, Bonnie Preston and Sarah Bailey

Data Analysis Considerations to Inform Medicaid Health Home Program Design

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

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

Jeffrey Max and Steven Glazerman

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

Health Departments Respond to Budget and Workforce Pressures

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