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

Tricia Collins Higgins and Karina Wagnerman

Employment Coaching: Evidence Snapshot

Lindsay Cattell, Jillian Stein and Dana Rotz

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

Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

How Does Value Added Compare to Student Growth Percentiles?

Elias Walsh and Eric Isenberg

Building Strong Families: The Evaluation Design

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

Poor Preventive Care Achievement and Program Retention Among Low Birth Weight Infant Medicaid Enrollees

Shanna Shulman

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

Ronette R. Briefel

Five Key Considerations for Exploring the Medicaid Health Homes Opportunity

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

Evaluation of the Ticket to Work Program: Assessment of Post-Rollout Implementation and Early Impacts (Technical Appendices)

Craig Thornton, Gina Livermore, Thomas Fraker, David Stapleton, Bonnie O'Day, David Wittenburg, Nanette Goodman, Tim Silva, Emily Sama Martin, Jesse Gregory, Debra Wright and Arif Mamun

Developing a Prescription for Physician Surveys

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

Head Start Families’ Program Selection and Experiences

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

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

Cheryl A. Camillo

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

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

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

Karen E. Cunnyngham

Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger (EDECH): The Nevada Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Project

Philip Gleason, Rebecca Kleinman, Gregory Chojnacki, Sarah Forrestal, Nicholas Redel, Breanna Wakar and Ronette Briefel

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

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

Naihobe Gonzalez, Mindy Hu, Natalie Larkin and Michela Garber

Scaling Programs with Research Evidence and Effectiveness (SPREE)

Nan Maxwell and Scott Richman

RPG Child and Family Outcomes: Fifth Annual Report to Congress

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

Evaluating Basic Science Investments: Toward a More Robust Practice

Clemencia Cosentino, Leslie Foster and Julia Klebanov

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

Lea Nolan, Angela Merrill and Gary Hyzer

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

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

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 Rogosin Institute's Initiative to Promote Health Literacy (Case Study)

Meg Maxwell and Jane Ahn

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

Brigette Courtot, Ian Hill and Chris Trenholm

Case Study of Louisiana's Express Lane Eligibility

Stan Dorn, Margaret Wilkinson and Sara Benatar

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

Helen Raikes and Anne Bloomenthal

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

Jessica Ross, Kristie Liao and Andrea Wysocki

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

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

Using Incentives to Promote Job Retention and Advancement: Guidance from the Performance Improvement Industry

Heather Hill and LaDonna Pavetti

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

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

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

NSLP Certification Accuracy Research Summary of Preliminary Findings

Prepared by the Food and Nutrition Service based on Mathematica Research

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

Sources of MyPyramid Intakes Among School Children

Elizabeth M. Condon and Mary Kay Fox

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

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

Facilitating Local Cross-Sector Collaboration: Strategies for Intermediaries

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

The ACA Medicaid Expansions and Employment of Adults With Disabilities

Purvi Sevak and Jody Schimmel Hyde

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

Frequently Asked Questions: Evaluation Start-Up

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

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

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

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Using Web Surveys for People with Disabilities

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

The Vocational Rehabilitation Program Evaluation Coach (Issue Brief)

Rachel Miller and Todd Honeycutt

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

Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees, 2005-2007

David Baugh and Shinu Verghese

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

Elías S. Hanno, Brittney Gionfriddo and Linda Rosenberg

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

Peter Schochet

Nonexperimental Versus Experimental Estimates of Earnings Impacts

Steven Glazerman, Dan M. Levy and David Myers

Health Departments Respond to Budget and Workforce Pressures

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

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

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

Karen Cunnyngham

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

Jeffrey Max and Steven Glazerman

Progress Toward Comprehensive Contraceptive Access Through The Right Time in Missouri

So O'Neil, Emily Hoe and Maggie Magee

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

Sheila Hoag, Victoria Peebles, Christopher Trenholm and Gene Lewit

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

LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle Derr, Jacqueline Kauff and Gretchen Kirby

Surveying Persons with Disabilities: A Source Guide, Version I

Jason Markesich, James Cashion and Martha Bleeker

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

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

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

Mariesa Herrmann, Elias Walsh and Eric Isenberg

Assessing the Nutrient Intakes of Vulnerable Subgroups

Barbara Devaney, Myoung Kim, Alicia Carriquiry and Gabriel Camano-Garcia

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

Grace Farrell Roemer, Melissa Miller and Martha Kovac

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

Judith Wooldridge

Coverage Advocacy Can Be Sustained After the Funding Ends

Beth Stevens and Sheila Hoag

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

Liz Schott and Lara Petrou Green

Critical Challenges in Making Health Services Research Relevant to Decision Makers

Marsha R. Gold

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

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

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

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

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

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

James M. Verdier

Planning the 2010 Census: Second Interim Report

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

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

Time-Limited Benefits Before Permanent SSDI Disability Benefits

Purvi Sevak and Stephanie Rosenbluth

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

Embedding Employment Services in an Opioid Treatment Facility

Colleen Staatz

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

James M. Verdier

US Approaches to Physician Payment: The Deconstruction of Primary Care

Robert A. Berenson and Eugene C. Rich

Mathematica's State Medicaid Consulting and Advisory Services

Clint Eisenhower

The Impact of Access Regulation on Health Insurance Market Structure

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

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

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

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

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

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Design Report

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

Review of SoonerCare Behavioral Health Services

Melanie Au and James Verdier

WHD Compliance Strategies: Directions for Future Research

Sarah Dolfin, Nan Maxwell and Ankita Patnaik

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

Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review (Executive Summary)

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

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

National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 5 (Volume 3 of 3): User’s Guide for Restricted and Public Use Files

Debra Wright, Eric Grau, Sara Skidmore, Yuhong Zheng, Hanzhi Zhou, Kirsten Barrett, Charles Bush and Jason Markesich

Behavioral Interventions for Compliance Assistance: Design Report

Jonah Deutsch, Naihobe Gonzalez and Nan Maxwell

Building a Future: Interim Impact Findings from the YouthBuild Evaluation

Cynthia Miller, Megan Millenky, Lisa Schwartz, Lisbeth Goble and Jillian Stein

2016-2017 Oakland Unite Agency Report

Naihobe Gonzalez, Natasha Nicolai, Johanna Lacoe, Armando Yanez, Ebo Dawson-Andoh, Sarah Crissey, Chelsea Mitchell, Zeyad El Omari, Esa Eslami and Raul Torres

Quality of Care Initiatives for CSHCN: Building the Foundation

Henry T. Ireys

Supporting High Quality Informal Child Care in Detroit

Mynti Hossain, Jaime Thomas, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Nazihah Siddiqui, Amaka Osuoha and Patrick Balke

Payment Rate Comparison Tool

Bridget Bernick

Putting Rigorous Evidence Within Reach: Lessons Learned from the New Heights Evaluation

Susan Zief, John Deke and Ruth Neild

Measuring Teacher and School Value Added in Oklahoma, Spring 2016

Albert Y. Liu, Elias Walsh and Dallas Dotter

Dynamics in Medicaid and SCHIP Eligibility Among Children in SCHIP's Early Years: Implications for Reauthorization

Anna S. Sommers, Lisa Dubay, Linda J. Blumberg, Fredric E. Blavin and John L. Czajka