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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

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

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

Jeffrey Max and Steven Glazerman

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

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Tim Sass and Ron Zimmer

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

Sheena McConnell and Michael Ponza

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

Amy Quinn and Margo Rosenbach

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

Danielle DeLisle, Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

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

Mourad Touzani, Frank Potter and Amy Zambrowski

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

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

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

James M. Verdier

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

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

Impacts of Abstinence Education on Teen Sexual Activity, Risk of Pregnancy, and Risk of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Christopher Trenholm, Barbara Devaney, Kenneth Fortson, Melissa Clark, Lisa Quay and Justin Wheeler

Considerations in Designing Personal Health Records for Underserved Populations

Ann Bagchi, Lorenzo Moreno and Raquel af Ursin

Erroneous Payments in the NSLP and SBP, Volume I: Study Findings

Michael Ponza, Philip M. Gleason, Lara Hulsey and Quinn Moore

Compendium of Student, Teacher, and Classroom Measures Used in NCEE Evaluations of Educational Interventions, Volume I: Measures Selection Approaches and Compendium Development Methods

Kimberly Boller, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Elizabeth M. Malone, Gail P. Baxter and Jerry West

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

Using EQROs to Improve the Quality of Preventive and Developmental Services

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

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

Lea Nolan, Angela Merrill and Gary Hyzer

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

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

The ACA Medicaid Expansions and Employment of Adults With Disabilities

Purvi Sevak and Jody Schimmel Hyde

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

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

Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review (Executive Summary)

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

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

Helen Raikes and Anne Bloomenthal

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

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

SMI Innovations Project: Southeast Pennsylvania Case Study

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

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

Philip M. Gleason, Anu Rangarajan and Christine Olson

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

Anne Gordon, Kimball Lewis and Larry Radbill

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

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

Marsha Gold and Judith Wooldridge

Serving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Recipients in a Post-Recession Environment

Elizabeth Brown and Michelle K. Derr

Rapid-Cycle Evaluation (In Focus)

Mathematica Policy Research

US Approaches to Physician Payment: The Deconstruction of Primary Care

Robert A. Berenson and Eugene C. Rich

Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo: DIZZTINCT–A Study Protocol for an Exploratory Stepped-Wedge Randomized Trial

William J. Meurer, Kathryn E. Beck, Brigid Rowell, Devin Brown, Alexander Tsodikov, Angela Fagerlin, Steven A. Telian, Laura Damschroder, Lawrence C. An, Lewis B. Morgenstern, Misty Ujhely, Laura Loudermilk, Sandeep Vijan and Kevin A. Kerber

Community Health Worker Interventions for Older Adults with Complex Health Needs: A Systematic Review

Meaghan A. Kennedy, Kayla E. Hatchell, Peter R. DiMilia, Stephanie M. Kelly, Heather B. Blunt, Pamela J. Bagley, Michael A. LaMantia, Charles F. Reynolds, Iii, Rebecca S. Crow, Tara N. Maden, S. Logan Kelly, Jacqueline M. Kihwele and John A. Batsis

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

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

Pathways to the Use of Health Services Research in Policy

Marsha Gold

Oakland Unite 2018-2019 Strategy Evaluation: Crisis Intervention for Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth

Naihobe Gonzalez, Mindy Hu, Natalie Larkin and Michela Garber

Health Departments Respond to Budget and Workforce Pressures

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

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

Heart Failure, 1992-2001: Appendix B: Detailed Tables

Angela Merrill

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

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

Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs

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

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

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

Planning the 2010 Census: Second Interim Report

Panel on Research on Future Census Methods of which Allen L. Schirm is a Member

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

Cheryl A. Camillo

Diet Quality of Americans by SNAP Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2010

Elizabeth Condon, Susan Drilea, Keri Jowers, Carolyn Lichtenstein, James Mabli, Emily Madden and Katherine Niland

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

Grace Farrell Roemer, Melissa Miller and Martha Kovac

Choosing the Right Formula

Allen L. Schirm

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

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

Gaps in Timely Access to Care Among Workers by Disability Status

Jody Schimmel Hyde and Gina A. Livermore

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

Karen Cunnyngham

Surveying Persons with Disabilities: A Source Guide, Version I

Jason Markesich, James Cashion and Martha Bleeker

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

Kristin Hallgren and Alyson Burnett

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

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

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

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

Jessica Ross, Kristie Liao and Andrea Wysocki

Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3): Four Years After Initial Authorization

Elías S. Hanno, Brittney Gionfriddo and Linda Rosenberg

Empathic Concern for Children and the Gender-Donations Gap

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

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

Frank Martin and Purvi Sevak

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

James M. Verdier

Embedding Employment Services in an Opioid Treatment Facility

Colleen Staatz

Planning Section 1115 Demonstration Implementation to Enable Strong Evaluation Designs

James D. Reschovsky and Katharine Bradley

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

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

Thomas M. Fraker and Jonathan E. Jacobson

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

Measurement Error in Household Surveys: Sources and Measurement

Daniel Kasprzyk

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

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

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

Progress Toward Comprehensive Contraceptive Access Through The Right Time in Missouri

So O'Neil, Emily Hoe and Maggie Magee

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

Premium Assistance Demonstrations: The Challenges of Interagency and Public/Private Coordination

Katharine Bradley and Karina Wagnerman

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

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

Critical Challenges in Making Health Services Research Relevant to Decision Makers

Marsha R. Gold

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

Medicaid Access Tool User Guide

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

Promoting Children's Healthy Activity in LAUP Programs

Susan Sprachman, Emily Moiduddin and Sally Atkins- Burnett

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Using Web Surveys for People with Disabilities

Michael Levere, David Wittenburg, Martha Kovac, Stacie Feldman and Stacy Dale

Interim Report on Grants Under the ENRM Project in Malawi

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

Training Enrollment and Completion: By the Numbers (Infographic)

Annalisa Mastri and Dana Rotz

National Health Emergency Grants to Address the Opioid Crisis: Implementation Study Final Report

Colleen Staatz, Jillian Berk, Crystal Blyler, Katie Bodenlos, Melissa Mack and Ivette Gutierrez

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

Emilie Bagby, Evan Borkum, Anca Dumitrescu and Matt Sloan

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

Eric Isenberg, Bing-ru Teh and Elias Walsh

An Access Monitoring System (AMS) for Medicare Beneficiaries

Various Authors

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

Mariesa Herrmann, Elias Walsh and Eric Isenberg

Data and Decision Making Same Organization, Different Perceptions; Different Organizations, Different Perceptions

Nan L. Maxwell, Dana Rotz and Christina Garcia

Medicare Advantage: Lessons for Medicares Future

Marsha Gold

The Effects of Employment Counseling on Labor Market Outcomes for Adults and Dislocated Workers: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Experiment

Sheena McConnell, Peter Schochet, Dana Rotz, Ken Fortson, Paul Burkander and Annalisa Mastri

The Role of State Faith Community Liaisons in Charitable Choice Implementation

Pamela Winston, Ann E. Person and Elizabeth Clary

Classroom Observations from Phase 2 of the Pennsylvania Teacher Evaluation Pilot: Assessing Internal Consistency, Score Variation, and Relationships with Value Added

Elias Walsh and Stephen Lipscomb

Analysis of Transition Events in Health Insurance Coverage

John L. Czajka and James Mabli

Impact Evaluation of the RWJF Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP)

Clemencia Cosentino, Cecilia Speroni, Margaret Sullivan and Raúl Torres

Profile of Children Entering Los Angeles Universal Preschool LAUP, Fall 2007

Michael López, John Love, Cheri Vogel, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Susan Sprachman, Margaret Caspe, Kathy Sonnenfeld, Kim Hall, Jessica Brauner and Susan Cooper

Value-Based Care Service for States

Paul Messino

Firm Perspectives on the Medicare Advantage Market

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson and Tricia Neuman