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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

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

Emilie Bagby, Evan Borkum, Anca Dumitrescu and Matt Sloan

Gaps in Timely Access to Care Among Workers by Disability Status

Jody Schimmel Hyde and Gina A. Livermore

Crime and Private Investment in Urban Neighborhoods

Johanna Lacoe, Raphael Bostic and Arthur Acolin

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 Impact of Access Regulation on Health Insurance Market Structure

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

Financial Inclusion and Resilience to COVID-19 Economic Shocks: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda

Abbie Turiansky, Erin Lipman, Arif Mamun, Cullen Seaton, Jonathan Gellar and Sarah Hughes

Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs

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

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

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

Mourad Touzani, Frank Potter and Amy Zambrowski

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

Sheena McConnell and Michael Ponza

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

Elías S. Hanno, Brittney Gionfriddo and Linda Rosenberg

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

Measurement and Evaluation Plan Template

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

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

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

Surveying Persons with Disabilities: A Source Guide, Version I

Jason Markesich, James Cashion and Martha Bleeker

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

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

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

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

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Tim Sass and Ron Zimmer

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

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

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

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Using Web Surveys for People with Disabilities

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

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

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

Considerations in Designing Personal Health Records for Underserved Populations

Ann Bagchi, Lorenzo Moreno and Raquel af Ursin

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

Nonexperimental Versus Experimental Estimates of Earnings Impacts

Steven Glazerman, Dan M. Levy and David Myers

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

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

Sheena McConnell

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

Peter Schochet

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

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

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

Evaluating Basic Science Investments: Toward a More Robust Practice

Clemencia Cosentino, Leslie Foster and Julia Klebanov

COVID-19 and Youth Unemployment by Gender and Age

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

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

Brigette Courtot, Ian Hill and Chris Trenholm

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Design Report

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

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

Tricia Collins Higgins and Karina Wagnerman

What I Learned at My Daughter’s School

Paul Decker

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

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

Using Paradata for Nonresponse Weighting Adjustments

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

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

Danielle DeLisle, Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

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

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

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

Sheena McConnell

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

Empathic Concern for Children and the Gender-Donations Gap

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

Mathematica's State Medicaid Consulting and Advisory Services

Clint Eisenhower

Training Enrollment and Completion: By the Numbers (Infographic)

Annalisa Mastri and Dana Rotz

Demonstrated Interest: Signaling Behavior in College Admissions

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

Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Overview of the Cross-Site Evaluation

Heather Koball, Heather Zaveri, Kimberly Boller, Deborah Daro, Jean Knab, Diane Paulsell, Margaret Hargreaves, Debra A. Strong, Lizabeth Malone, Patricia Del Grosso and Yange Xue

Methods to Identify Changes in Access Among Medicaid Beneficiaries

Risa Nakajima, Joe Zickafoose and Allison Dodd

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

James M. Verdier

NSLP Certification Accuracy Research Summary of Preliminary Findings

Prepared by the Food and Nutrition Service based on Mathematica Research

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

Sheila Hoag and Victoria Peebles

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

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

HMO's Profits on Their Medicare Risk Plans

Richard T. Shin and Randall S. Brown

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

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

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

Best Practices in Coordinated Care

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

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

Critical Challenges in Making Health Services Research Relevant to Decision Makers

Marsha R. Gold

Facilitating Local Cross-Sector Collaboration: Strategies for Intermediaries

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

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

An Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers: Study Highlights

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

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

Karen Cunnyngham

Rapid-Cycle Evaluation (In Focus)

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Nan Maxwell, Kristen Joyce, Diane Herz and Angela Edwards

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

Jeffrey Max and Steven Glazerman

Federal Programs for Persons with Disabilities

Brian O. Burwell, Bonnie Preston and Sarah Bailey

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

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

Purvi Sevak and Shamima Khan

Planning the 2010 Census: Second Interim Report

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

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

Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

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

Philip M. Gleason, Anu Rangarajan and Christine Olson

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

Eric Isenberg, Bing-ru Teh and Elias Walsh

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

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

Case Study of Louisiana's Express Lane Eligibility

Stan Dorn, Margaret Wilkinson and Sara Benatar

The Impact of Democracy Prep Public Schools on Civic Participation

Brian Gill, Charles Tilley, Emilyn Whitesell, Mariel Finucane, Liz Potamites and Sean Corcoran

Building Strong Families: The Evaluation Design

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

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

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

Naihobe Gonzalez, Mindy Hu, Natalie Larkin and Michela Garber

Measurement Error in Household Surveys: Sources and Measurement

Daniel Kasprzyk

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

James M. Verdier

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

Marsha Gold and Judith Wooldridge

Dual Eligible Populations and Special Needs Plans: Current and Future Strategies

James M. Verdier

Unintended Pregnancy and Perinatal Depression Trajectories in Low-Income, High-Risk Hispanic Immigrants

Anna L. Christensen, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Deborah F. Perry and Huynh-Nhu Le

Designing the 2010 Census: First Interim Report

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

Mapping State Health Insurance Markets: Structure and Change in the States' Group and Individual Health Insurance Markets, 1995-1997

Deborah J. Chollet, Adele M. Kirk and Marc E. Chow

Quality of Care Initiatives for CSHCN: Building the Foundation

Henry T. Ireys

Guidelines for Multiple Testing in Impact Evaluations of Educational Interventions

Peter Z. Schochet

Mental Health Insurance: Coverage, Generosity, and Parity

Myles Maxfield and Lori Achman

Access to Care and Satisfaction Among Health Center Patients With Chronic Conditions

Leiyu Shi, Lee De-Chih, Geraldine Pierre Haile, Hailun Liang, Michelle Chung and Alek Sripipatana

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

Nan L. Maxwell, Dana Rotz and Christina Garcia

Spotlight on Wyoming

Grace Anglin and Adam Swinburn