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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

Accounting for Co-Teaching: A Guide for Policymakers and Developers of Value-Added Models (Journal Article)

Eric Isenberg and Elias Walsh

Federal Policy Efforts to Improve Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Families by Supporting Marriage and Family Stability

M. Robin Dion and Alan J. Hawkins

Evaluation of Support for Using Student Data to Inform Teachers’ Instruction—Executive Summary

Philip Gleason, Sarah Crissey, Greg Chojnacki, Marykate Zukiewicz, Tim Silva, Sarah Costelloe and Fran O'Reilly

Rapid Evaluation Approaches for Complex Initiatives

Margaret B. Hargreaves

An Evidence-Based Framework for SCHIP Reauthorization

Margo Rosenbach

Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries in HMOs

Marsha Gold, Lyle Nelson, Randall Brown, Anne Ciemnecki, Anna Aizer and Elizabeth Docteur

Supplemental Security Income Youth Formative Research Project: Target Population Profiles

Todd Honeycutt, David Wittenburg, Michael Levere and Sarah Palmer

Potential Strategies to Improve the Employment Outcomes of Youth SSI Recipients

Todd Honeycutt, David Wittenburg, Richard Luecking, Kelli Crane and David R. Mann

Assessing the Usability of MAX 2008 Encounter Data for Enrollees in Comprehensive Managed Care

Vivian L. H. Byrd, Allison Hedley Dodd, Rosalie Malsberger and Ashley Zlatinov

For Massachusetts Students, PARCC and MCAS Exams Comparable in Predicting College Outcomes (In Focus Brief)

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Kate Place, Erin Dillon and Brian Gill

Change in Food Security Status and Change in Weight Are Not Associated in Urban Women with Preschool Children

Robert C. Whitaker and Ankur Sarin

Designing Services for Youth and Young Adults At-Risk of Homelessness: Key Components of YARH Grantees’ Comprehensive Service Models

Rosalind Keith, Nuzhat Islam, Rumin Sarwar and Cay Bradley

Standardized Testing: Mend It, Don't End It

Steven Glazerman

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

Elizabeth Condon, Susan Drilea, Carolyn Lichtenstein, James Mabli and Katherine Niland

Private Plans in Medicare: A 2007 Update

Marsha Gold

Use of Hospital Emergency Services by Youths in Out-of-Home Care

Jonathan D. Brown, Ellen Singer and Henry T. Ireys

State-Based Advocacy as a Tool for Expanding Children's Coverage: Lessons from Site Visits to Six IAC Grantee States

Ian Hill, Sara Hogan, Debra Draper and Allison Liebhaber

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

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

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

Home Health Care: Prospective Payment Reduces Visits While Preserving Quality

Valerie Cheh

Multi-City Study Shows Beverage Taxes Raise Prices, Reduce and Shift Purchases

John Cawley, David Frisvold and David Jones

APPI Cross-Site Evaluation: Interim Report

Margaret B. Hargreaves, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Samantha Penoyer, Michaela Vine, Laura Ruttner and Alena Davidoff-Gore

Reaching More Hungry Children: The Seamless Summer Food Waiver

Tania Tasse and Jim Ohls

Application of Path Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling in Nutrition and Dietetics

Jeffrey E. Harris and Philip Gleason

Evaluating an Enhanced Home Visiting Program to Prevent Rapid Repeat Pregnancy Among Adolescent Parents

Menbere Shiferaw, Dana Rotz and Robert G. Wood

Physical Activity in U.S. Adults: Compliance with the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans

Jared M. Tucker, Gregory J. Welk and Nicholas K. Beyler

The Effect of Hospital-Physician Integration on Health Information Technology Adoption

Eric Lammers

Pathways-to-Outcomes Snapshots: Tools for Building Evidence for Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) Programs

Daniel Friend, Amy Overcash, Pamela Holcomb and Heather Zaveri

Opening Up Possibilities: Father Engagement Lessons During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Eliza Abendroth, Jennifer Bellamy, Diletta Mittone, Roseana Bess and Matthew Stagner

The Growth of Private Plans in Medicare, 2006

Marsha Gold

Effectiveness, Safety, and Acceptability of No†Test Medical Abortion Provided via Telemedicine: A National Cohort Study

Abigail Aiken, Patricia A. Lohr, Jonathan Lord, Nabanita Ghosh and Jennifer Starling

Food Stamp Program Access

James Ohls

The Long-Term Effects of Building Strong Families: A Relationship Skills Education Program (Executive Summary)

Robert G. Wood, Quinn Moore, Andrew Clarkwest, Alexandra Killewald and Shannon Monahan

2016-2019 Oakland Unite Agency Report

Esa Eslami, Natalie Larkin, Charles Tilley and Naihobe Gonzalez

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

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

A Review of the Literature on Home-Based Child Care: Implications for Future Directions

Toni Porter, Diane Paulsell, Patricia Del Grosso, Sarah Avellar, Rachel Hass and Lee Vuong

Using Medical Records to Supplement a Claims-Based Comparative Effectiveness Analysis of Antidepressants (Journal Article)

Thomas W. Croghan, Dominick Esposito, Gregory Daniel, Peter Wahl and Michael A. Stoto

Trauma-Informed Planning Strategies to Help Students Transition Back to School in the Era of COVID-19, Fact Sheet

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

A Continuing Program for Increasing Insurance Coverage Among Low-Income Families

Judith Wooldridge, Beth Stevens, Christopher Trenholm, Eileen Ellis and Ian Hill

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

James M. Verdier

Medicare Advantage: Lessons for Medicares Future

Marsha Gold

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

Places for Growing: How to Improve Your Family Child Care Home

Heidi M. Ferrar, Thelma Harms and Debby Cryer

Southwestern Health Resources Accountable Care Network Three-Day Rule Waiver: Approach to Communication and Implementation (Case Study)

Candice Talkington and Sonya Streeter

Costs and Consequences of Case Management for Medicare Beneficiaries

Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Valerie Cheh and Barbara Schneider

Performance of New Cognitive Assessments with Head Start Children: Emerging Evidence from FACES and AIAN FACES 2019

Tutrang Nguyen, Lizabeth Malone, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Addison Larson and Judy Cannon

Medicaid & CHIP and the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

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A Comparison of Cancer Stage at Diagnosis and Treatment Initiation Between Enrollees in an Urban HIV Clinic and SEER

Keri L. Calkins, Geetanjali Chander, Corinne E. Joshu, Kala Visvanathan, Anthony T. Fojo, Catherine R. Lesko, Richard D. Moore and Bryan Lau

Changes in Hospital Utilization Three Years into Maryland’s Global Budget Program for Rural Hospitals

Eric T. Roberts, Laura A. Hatfield, J. Michael McWilliams, Michael E. Chernew, Nicolae Done, Sule Gerovich, Lauren Gilstrap and Ateev Mehrotra

Payment Rate Comparison Tool

Bridget Bernick

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

Current and Future Demand for Health Services Researchers: Perspectives from Diverse Research Organizations

Eugene Rich and Anna Collins

Firm-Level Early Intervention Incentives: Which Recent Employers of Disability Program Entrants Would Pay More?

David C. Stapleton, David R. Mann and Jae Song

The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Purchases and Consumption by Adults and Children

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

Use of With-in-Primary-Sample-Unit Variances to Assess the Stability of a Standard Design-Based Variance Estimator

Donsig Jang and John L. Eltinge

Predicting Successful Adaptation in the National Health Service Corps: Perspectives of Current and Alumni Clinicians

Thomas R. Konrad, Kirsten Leysieffer, Rose Marie Martinez, Richard Niska and Barbara L. Wells

Ensuring Access to Medicaid for Individuals with Mental Illnesses Reentering Their Communities from Prison: A Program Model from Oklahoma

Bob Mann, Henry T. Ireys and Seth Prins

What Matters for Student Achievement? Exploring Teacher Instructional Practices and the Role of School-Level and Student-Level Characteristics

Scott Richman, Alicia Demers and Dmitriy Poznyak

Supporting Families Through Coordinated Services Partnerships

Nickie Fung, Elizabeth Cavadel and Scott Baumgartner

Findings from the Financial Inclusion Insights Surveys in East Africa: Inequities in Use of Mobile Money

Clair Null, Duncan Chaplin, Jacob Hartog, Jessica Jacobson, Arif Mamun and Anu Rangarajan

Review of Sanction Policies and Research Studies: Final Literature Review

LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle K. Derr and Heather Hesketh Zaveri

An Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers: Resource Sharing Practices Among AJCs

Brittany English and Sarah Osborn

Diversity in States' Early Implementation of the EACH Program

Suzanne Felt and George Wright

Mental Health Insurance: Coverage, Generosity, and Parity

Myles Maxfield and Lori Achman

Spotlight on Oregon

Mynti Hossain, Grace Anglin, Christal Ramos, Amanda Napoles and Amy Phillips

Private Providers' Knowledge, Attitudes and Misconceptions Related to Long-Acting and Permanent Contraceptive Methods: A Case Study in Bangladesh

Jorge Ugaz, Kathryn Banke, Stephen Rahaim, Wahiduzzaman Chowdhury and Julie Williams

How Does Losing Health Insurance Affect Disability Claims? Evidence from the Affordable Care Act’s Dependent Care Mandate

Michael Levere, Heinrich Hock and Nancy Early

Guidelines for Multiple Testing in Impact Evaluations of Educational Interventions

Peter Z. Schochet

The Effects of Parenting Programs for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers

Julia Alamillo, Breyon Williams and Sarah Avellar

Impact of Influenza Immunization on Medical Expenditures Among Medicare Elderly, 1999-2003

Boyd H. Gilman, Arthur J. Bonito and Celia Eicheldinger

Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition

Ron Zimmer, Brian Gill, Kevin Booker, Stephane Lavertu, Tim Sass and John Witte

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Years 2002-2009

Joshua Leftin

Therapeutic Alliance in Pediatric Primary Care: Preliminary Evidence for a Relationship with Physician Communication Style and Mothers' Satisfaction

Lawrence S. Wissow, Jonathan D. Brown and Janice Krupnick

Effect of Medicaid Policy Reforms on Ryan White Grantees and Clients: Results from Six State Case Studies

Boyd Gilman and Debra J. Lipson

The Role of Reinsurance in State Efforts to Expand Coverage

Deborah Chollet

The Dynamics of the Age Structure, Dependency, and Consumption

Heinrich Hock and David Weil

Information Needs Associated with the Changing Organization and Delivery of Health Care: Summary of Perceptions, Activities, Key Gaps, and Priorities

Marsha Gold, Hilary Frazer and Amy Klein

Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification

Jill Constantine

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

Early Predictors of Girls' Adolescent Sexual Activity: Longitudinal Findings from the Girls Shape the Future Study

Brian Goesling and Anu Rangarajan

Regional Partnership Grants Cross-Site Design Report

Angela D'Angelo, Juliette Henke, Roseana Bess, Yange Xue, Sarah Avellar, Alyson Burnett, Cleo Jacobs Johnson and Ayesha De Mond

Serving Elders at Risk: The Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs National Evaluation of the Elderly Nutrition Program 1993-1995. Volume I: Title III Evaluation Findings

Michael Ponza, James C. Ohls, Barbara E. Millen, Audrey M. McCool, Karen E. Needels, Linda Rosenberg, Dexter Chu, Catherine Daly and Paula A. Quatromoni

Pediatric Primary Care as a Component of Systems of Care

Jonathan D. Brown

Improving Care and Service Delivery for Autistic Youths Transitioning to Adulthood

Paul Shattuck and Lindsay Shea

Designing the 2010 Census: First Interim Report

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

Alabama's Current Insurance Market

Deborah Chollet, Kate Stewart and Suzie Witmer

The 1998 National Survey of Local School-to-Work Partnerships: Data Summary

Lara Hulsey, Michelle Van Noy and Marsha K. Silverberg

Supporting Families in Region XI AIAN Head Start: Centers’ Early Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Katie Gonzalez, Sara Bernstein, Lizabeth Malone, Addison Larson and FACES 2019 Workgroup Aian

Examining the Oral Language Competency of Children from Korean Immigrant Families in English-Only and Dual Language Immersion Schools

Jane Younga Choi, Jin Sook Lee and Janet S. Oh

Evaluation of the Formal Technical Education Sub-Activity of the Human Development Project, El Salvador

Larissa Campuzano, Randall Blair, Virginia Poggio, Ivonne Padilla, Seth Morgan and Michael Brannan

Private Sector Partnerships for Global Nutrition Impact: Early Learnings

Clair Null, Kimberly Smith and Drew Koleros

Relationship Between NCQA Medical Home Recognition and Health Care Utilization Among Children in Medicaid with Disabilities or Special Health Care Needs

Kate Stewart, Henry Ireys, Dana Petersen, Joe Zickafoose and Lisa Schottenfeld

The Academic and Behavioral Consequences of Discipline Policy Reform: Evidence from Philadelphia

Matthew P. Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe

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

2008 Principal/Vice Principal Survey Results for Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC)

Duncan Chaplin, Hanley Chiang, Margaret Sullivan, Virginia Knechtel, Dominic Harris, Shinu Verghese, Kathy Sonnenfeld, Barbara Kennen and John Hall

Experiences of Virginia Time Limit Families After Case Closure: Interim Report

Anne Gordon, Susanne James-Burdumy, Renee Loeffler, Barbara Guglielmo and Carole Kuhns

The Role of Early Head Start Programs in Addressing the Child Care Needs of Low-Income Families with Infants and Toddlers: Influences on Child Care Use and Quality

John M. Love, Jill Constantine, Diane Paulsell, Kimberly Boller, Christine Ross, Helen H. Raikes, Christy Brady-Smith and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Using Data to Improve Child Welfare Services and Outcomes

Elizabeth Weigensberg

Course of Mental Illness and Role of Multiple Health Conditions Among People Under Age 50 in Predicting Change in Public Disability Benefit Status and Labor Force Participation

Judith A. Cook and Jane K. Burke-Miller