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

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

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

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

Outcomes Following Termination of Social Security Disability Insurance

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

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

Organizing Care for Complex Patients in the Patient-Centered Medical Home (Journal Article)

Eugene C. Rich, Debra Lipson, Jenna Libersky, Deborah N. Peikes and Michael L. Parchman

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

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

Choosing the Right Formula

Allen L. Schirm

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

Jeffrey Max and Steven Glazerman

BSF's Effects on Couples Who Attended Group Relationship Skills Sessions: A Special Analysis of 15-Month Data

Robert G. Wood, Quinn Moore and Andrew Clarkwest

Case Study of Father Engagement in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Programs: ForeverDads

Danielle DeLisle, Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

RPG Child and Family Outcomes: Fifth Annual Report to Congress

Debra Strong, Russell Cole, Angela D’Angelo, Juliette Henke and Yange Xue

Beyond Coverage: SCHIP Makes Strides Toward Providing a Usual Source of Care to Low-Income Children

Amy Quinn and Margo Rosenbach

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

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

Tricia Collins Higgins and Karina Wagnerman

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

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

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

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

Embedding Employment Services in an Opioid Treatment Facility

Colleen Staatz

Informal Child Care in Philadelphia

Megan Hague Angus, Mynti Hossain and Cleo Jacobs Johnson

Planning Section 1115 Demonstration Implementation to Enable Strong Evaluation Designs

James D. Reschovsky and Katharine Bradley

Considerations in Designing Personal Health Records for Underserved Populations

Ann Bagchi, Lorenzo Moreno and Raquel af Ursin

Best Practices in Coordinated Care

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

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

Data Analysis Considerations to Inform Medicaid Health Home Program Design

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

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

Cheryl A. Camillo

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

Karen E. Cunnyngham

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

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

James M. Verdier

Does Managed Care Work for Medicare? An Evaluation of the Medicare Risk Program for HMOs

Randall S. Brown, Jeanette W. Bergeron, Dolores Gurnick Clement, Jerrold W. Hill and Sheldon M. Retchin

Demonstrated Interest: Signaling Behavior in College Admissions

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

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

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

Karen Cunnyngham

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

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

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

Meals Offered and Served in US Public Schools: Do They Meet Nutrient Standards?

Mary Kay Crepinsek, Anne R. Gordon, Patricia M. McKinney, Elizabeth M. Condon and Ander Wilson

Using EQROs to Improve the Quality of Preventive and Developmental Services

Henry T. Ireys, Tara Krissik, Anne Markus and Sara Rosenbaum

An Access Monitoring System (AMS) for Medicare Beneficiaries

Various Authors

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

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

Sharon Lohr, Peter Z. Schochet and Elizabeth Sanders

Letter to Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking

Paul Decker

Facilitating Local Cross-Sector Collaboration: Strategies for Intermediaries

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

Identifying Enhanced Instructional Practices that Support English Language Learners: Background Literature Review for Study 2 of the Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study

Nikki Aikens, Sarah Duffy and John M. Love

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

Random Assignment

Charles E. Metcalf and Craig Thornton

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

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

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

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

New Findings from the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study: Data to Inform Action

Ronette R. Briefel

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

Ankita Patnaik and Robert G. Wood

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

Health Departments Respond to Budget and Workforce Pressures

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

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

Sheena McConnell

Empathic Concern for Children and the Gender-Donations Gap

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

NSLP Certification Accuracy Research Summary of Preliminary Findings

Prepared by the Food and Nutrition Service based on Mathematica Research

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

Thomas M. Fraker and Jonathan E. Jacobson

Head Start Families’ Program Selection and Experiences

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

Efforts to Meet Children's Physical Activity and Nutritional Needs: Findings from the I Am Moving, I Am Learning Implementation Evaluation

Mary Kay Fox, Kristin Hallgren, Kimberly Boller, Alyn Turner, Charlotte Cabili, Elizabeth Condon, Patricia Del Grosso, David Eden, Daniel Finkelstein, Barbara Kennen, Andrea Mraz Esposito and Renée Nogales

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

Mourad Touzani, Frank Potter and Amy Zambrowski

Micro-Credentials: Do They Hold Promise for Low-Skilled Workers? (Issue Brief)

Nan Maxwell, Kristen Joyce, Diane Herz and Angela Edwards

Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees, 2005-2007

David Baugh and Shinu Verghese

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

Lessons from Three Pilots to Integrate Physical and Behavioral Health Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries in Pennsylvania

Jung Y. Kim, Angela M. Gerolamo and Jonathan Brown

The ACA Medicaid Expansions and Employment of Adults With Disabilities

Purvi Sevak and Jody Schimmel Hyde

Methods of Observing Variations in Physicians' Decisions: The Opportunities of Clinical Vignettes

Lara Converse, Kirsten Barrett, Eugene Rich and James Reschovsky

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

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

Ticket to Work Participant Characteristics and Outcomes Under the Revised Regulations

Gina A. Livermore, Denise Hoffman and Maura Bardos

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

Jessica Harding, Pamela A. Morris and Jennifer Hill

Rapid-Cycle Evaluation (In Focus)

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Evaluation of the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge Grants: Interim Findings on Multiagency Collaboration and Cluster Progress

Megan Hague Angus, Jeanne Bellotti, Kevin Hollenbeck and Brittany English

Case Study of Louisiana's Express Lane Eligibility

Stan Dorn, Margaret Wilkinson and Sara Benatar

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

Sheila Hoag and Victoria Peebles

Association of Maternal Obesity and Depressive Symptoms with Television-Viewing Time in Low-Income Preschool Children

Hilary L. Burdette, Robert C. Whitaker, Robert S. Kahn and Jean Harvey-Berino

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

Making Health Care a Reality for Low-Income Children and Families

Judith Wooldridge

Five Key Considerations for Exploring the Medicaid Health Homes Opportunity

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

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

Helen Raikes and Anne Bloomenthal

Interim Report on Grants Under the ENRM Project in Malawi

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

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

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

Mathematica's State Medicaid Consulting and Advisory Services

Clint Eisenhower

Enhancing Medicaid Primary Care Case Management to Improve Care Management and Accountability

James M. Verdier

What I Learned at My Daughter’s School

Paul Decker

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

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

James M. Verdier

Frequently Asked Questions: Evaluation Start-Up

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

Multisite Causal Mediation Analysis in the Presence of Complex Sample and Survey Designs and Non†Random Non†Response

Xu Qin, Guanglei Hong, Jonah Deutsch and Edward Bein

Using the Type of Bill to Classify Institutional Claims in 2017 (Brief)

Allison Barrett, Laura Nolan, Mary Allison Geibel, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

Using Multiple Comparison Groups to Address Unobserved Biases in Comparative Effectiveness Research

Frank B. Yoon, Haiden A. Huskamp, Alisa B. Busch and Sharon-Lise T. Normand

Who Enrolls in Community-Based Programs for the Uninsured, and Why Do They Stay?

Erin Fries Taylor, Catherine G. McLaughlin, Anne W. Warren and Paula H. Song

Spotlight on North Carolina

Dana Petersen, Mynti Hossain, Rachel Burton and Christal Ramos

Engaging Stakeholders to Improve the Quality of Children's Health Care

Ellen Albritton, Margo Edmunds, Veronica Thomas, Dana Petersen, Grace Ferry, Cindy Brach and Linda Bergofsky

Tips for Establishing an Effective COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program

Candace Miller

The Effect on Teenage Childbearing on Social Capital Development: New Evidence on Civic Engagement

Joseph J. Sabia, Joseph P. Price, H. Elizabeth Peters and Reginald Covington

Medicare+Choice 1999-2001: An Analysis of Managed Care Plan Withdrawals and Trends in Benefits and Premiums

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

QRS Profile: New Mexico Look for the STARS—AIM HIGH

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout