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The Effect of Consumer Direction On Personal Assistance Received in Arkansas

Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips, Jennifer Schore and Barbara Carlson

Medicaid & CHIP and the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

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Tips for Establishing an Effective COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program

Candace Miller

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

Eugene Rich and Anna Collins

Engaging Community Members in the Research Process to Enhance Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Program Evaluations

Danielle Whicher, Lexi Ouellette and Julia Alamillo

Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Model: Evaluation of the Third Year (2019) Findings at a Glance

Deborah Peikes, Kaylyn Swankoski, Ann O’Malley, Lori Timmins, Dana Petersen, Kristin Geonnotti, Ha Tu, Pragya Singh, Arkadipta Ghosh, Stacy Dale, Rosalind Keith, Dana Jean-Baptiste, Sheila Hoag, Katie Morrison Lee, Rumin Sarwar, Victoria Peebles, Min-Young Kim, Ning Fu, Eunhae Shin, Sean Orzol, Jessica Laird, Nikkilyn Hensleigh, Genna Cohen, Asta Sorensen, Kristie Liao, Melanie Au, Rachel Machta, Janice Genevro, Arnold Chen, Mynti Hossain, Sara Pittman, Shannon Heitkamp and Randall Brown

Rural Research Needs and Data Sources for Selected Human Services Topics, Volume 2: Data Sources

Debra A. Strong, Patricia Del Grosso, Andrew Burwick, Vinita Jethwani and Michael Ponza

Evaluation of the Local Initiative Rewarding Results Collaborative Demonstrations: Interim Report

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Fabrice Smieliauskas

The Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study 2008: Study Design and Methods

Ronette R. Briefel, Laura M. Kalb, Elizabeth Condon, Denise M. Deming, Nancy A. Clusen, Mary Kay Fox, Lisa Harnack, Erin Gemmill, Mary Stevens and Kathleen C. Reidy

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

How States Can Use Medicare Advantage Star Ratings to Assess D-SNP Quality and Performance

Danielle Chelminsky

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

Menbere Shiferaw, Dana Rotz and Robert G. Wood

A Pilot Study of Quality Support Coaching in LAUP: Findings from the 2010-2011 Program Year

Sally Atkins-Burnett, Pamela Winston, Yange Xue, Emily Moiduddin, Elisha Smith, Susan Sprachman and Nikki Aikens

Alabama's Current Insurance Market

Deborah Chollet, Kate Stewart and Suzie Witmer

Designing the 2010 Census: First Interim Report

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

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1999

Randy Rosso and Catherine Palermo

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

Early Childhood Development Programs in Global Contexts: Improving Quality

Anne Bridgman. Based on "Quality of Early Childhood Development Programs in Global Contexts: Rationale for Investment, Conceptual Framework Implications for Equity, " by Pia Rebello Britto, Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Kimberly Boller.

Logos and Dollars: How Procedural and Incentive Payment Changes Can Increase Response Rate

Erin Gemmill, Patricia Nemeth, Peter Schochet and Jillian Berk

Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Health Care Providers: A Framework for Understanding Various Provider Organizational Structures

Jessica Heeringa, Anne Mutti, Michael F. Furukawa, Amanda Lechner, Kristin A. Maurer and Eugene Rich

New Approaches to Measuring the Comprehensiveness of Primary Care Physicians

Ann S. O'Malley, Eugene C. Rich, Lisa Shang, Tyler Rose, Arkadipta Ghosh, Dmitriy Poznyak and Deborah Peikes

The Use of TANF Work-Oriented Sanctions in Illinois, New Jersey, and South Carolina

LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle K. Derr, Gretchen Kirby, Robert G. Wood and Melissa A. Clark

A US National Study of the Association Between Income and Ambulance Response Time in Cardiac Arrest

Renee Y. Hsia, Delphine Huang, N. Clay Mann, Christopher Colwell, Mary P. Mercer, Mengtao Dai and Matthew Niedzwiecki

Payment Rate Comparison Tool

Bridget Bernick

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

Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care: Challenges and Opportunities for State Policymakers and Low-Income Individuals

James Verdier

Can Care Coordination (CC) Help Control Medicare Costs

Randy Brown, Debbie Peikes, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators (Executive Summary)

Kristin Geonnotti, Erin Fries Taylor, Deborah Peikes, Lisa Schottenfeld, Hannah Burak, Robert McNellis and Janice Genevro

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: 2001-2008 (Summary)

Joshua Leftin

Implementation of Mental Health Parity: Lessons from California

Margo L. Rosenbach, Timothy K. Lake, Susan R. Williams and Jeffrey A. Buck. Reprinted with permission from Psychiatric Services (Copyright 2009). American Psychiatric Association

The Impact of Sugar†Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Purchases: Evidence from Four City†Level Taxes in the United States

John Cawley, David Frisvold and David Jones

Medicare Advantage: Lessons for Medicares Future

Marsha Gold

Behavioral Interventions for Compliance Assistance: Design Report

Jonah Deutsch, Naihobe Gonzalez and Nan Maxwell

2016-2019 Oakland Unite Agency Report

Esa Eslami, Natalie Larkin, Charles Tilley and Naihobe Gonzalez

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

Brian Goesling and Anu Rangarajan

Nutrition Services Program Participation and the Diet Quality of Older Adults

Elizabeth Gearan, James Mabli and Katherine Niland

Using American Community Survey Disability Data to Improve the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Accuracy

Jack Gettens, Pei-Pei Lei and Alexis D. Henry

Establishing and Maintaining Medicaid Eligibility Upon Release from Public Institutions

Audra Wenzlow, Henry T. Ireys, Carol Irvin and Matthew Hodges

Changes in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women

Claudia Olivetti and Dana E. Rotz

Spotlight on Oregon

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

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

Fresenius Kidney Care's Home Dialysis Program (Case Study)

Meg Maxwell and Natalie Graves

Do Early Warning Systems and Student Engagement Activities Reduce Dropout? Findings from the Four-Country SDPP Evaluation

Nancy Murray

Improving Care and Service Delivery for Autistic Youths Transitioning to Adulthood

Paul Shattuck and Lindsay Shea

Dietary Intakes of Children Enrolled in US Early Child-Care Programs During Child-Care and Non-Child-Care Days

Meaghan E. Glenn, Kelly Patlan, Patricia Connor, Chantal Stidsen, Sarah Ball, Karen E. Peterson, Lauren E.W. Olsho, Alice Ann H. Gola and Kristen A. Copeland

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

Reducing Early Childhood Tooth Decay: Leading Steps for State Policymakers

Leslie Foster, Meg Booth and Colin Reusch

The Dynamics of the Age Structure, Dependency, and Consumption

Heinrich Hock and David Weil

What's the Secret Ingredient? Searching for Policies and Practices that Make Charter Schools Successful

Philip M. Gleason

Regional Variations: The Use of Hospitals, Home Health, and Skilled Nursing in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage

Qijuan Li, Momotazur Rahman, Pedro Gozalo, Laura M. Keohane, Marsha R. Gold and Amal N. Trivedi

Local Evaluations of the Cohort 1 P3 Pilots: A Synthesis of Their Findings

Nan Maxwell and Armando Yañez

APPI Cross-Site Evaluation: Interim Report

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

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

The Welfare to Work Grants Program: An Evaluation Update

Alan M. Hershey, Demetra Smith Nightingale and Irma Perez-Johnson

Supporting Healthy Marriage and Strengthening Relationships of Unwed Parents: Technical Assistance Available

Barbara Devaney, Alan Hershey and Debra Strong

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 Role of Reinsurance in State Efforts to Expand Coverage

Deborah Chollet

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

Evaluation Plan for Credit, PPM, and ISSA Components of the Water-to-Market Activity (Memo)

Randall Blair, Anu Rangarajan and Ken Fortson

How Much Have Students Missed Academically Because of the Pandemic? A Review of the Evidence to Date

Martin R. West and Robin Lake

Making Joint Commitments: Roles of Schools, Employers, and Students in Implementing National Skill Standards

Joshua Haimson and Lara Hulsey

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 Skills Development Challenge in Latin America: Diagnosing the Problems and Identifying Public Policy Solutions

A. Fiszbein, C. Cosentino and B. Cumsille

Guide to MAX Data

Laura Ruttner, Rosemary Borck, Jessica Nysenbaum and Susan Williams

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

Eric Lammers

Evaluation of Programs Funded by Technology-Based Learning (TBL) Grants

Nan Maxwell, Samina Sattar, Dana Rotz and Kate Dunham

Upward Bound Math-Science Program: Description and Interim Impact Estimates

Robert B. Olsen, Neil Seftor, Tim Silva, David Myers, David DesRoches and Julie Young

Lessons from a Federal Initiative to Build Capacity to End Youth Homelessness (Issue Brief)

Lisa Klein Vogel and M. C. Bradley

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

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2000

Karen E. Cunnyngham

Going to Scale: As KIPP Network Grows, Positive Impacts Are Sustained (In Focus Brief)

Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Kevin Booker, Gregory Chojnacki, Thomas Coen and Lisbeth Goble

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

Diversity in States' Early Implementation of the EACH Program

Suzanne Felt and George Wright

Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification

Jill Constantine

Costs and Consequences of Case Management for Medicare Beneficiaries

Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Valerie Cheh and Barbara Schneider

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

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

Necessary But Not Sufficient: The HITECH Act and Health Information Technology's Potential to Build Medical Homes (White Paper)

Lorenzo Moreno, Deborah Peikes and Amy Krilla

Consumer Voices for Coverage: Advocacy Evaluation Toolkit

Debra A. Strong, Todd Honeycutt and Judith Wooldridge

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

Evaluation of Enroll America: An Implementation Assessment and Recommendations for Future Outreach Efforts

Sheila Hoag, Sean Orzol and Cara Orfield

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

Spotlight on North Carolina

Dana Petersen, Mynti Hossain, Rachel Burton and Christal Ramos

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

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

Do Socialization Goals Explain Difference in Parental Control Between Black and White Parents?

Scott B. Richman and Jelani Mandara

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

The Business Case for Community Paramedicine: Lessons from Commonwealth Care Alliance's Pilot Program

Katharine W. V. Bradley, Dominick Esposito, Iyah K. Romm, John Loughnane, Toyin Ajayi, Rachel Davis and Teagan Kuruna

Using Evidence to Inform Policy Developing a Policy-Relevant Research Agenda for the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Bruce E. Landon, James M. Gill, Richard C. Antonelli and Eugene C. Rich

Compendium of Existing Measures for Understanding Leadership in Early Care and Education

Lizabeth Malone, Scilla Albanese, Christopher Jones, Yange Xue, Gretchen Kirby and Anne Douglass

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

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

Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries in HMOs

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

Testimony for Hearing on Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Children

David Wittenburg

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

Provider Acceptance and Beneficiary Access Under TRICARE's PPO Health Plan

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Eric Schone and Richard Bannick

Rapid Evaluation Approaches for Complex Initiatives

Margaret B. Hargreaves

The Benefits of Housing Subsidies for TANF Recipients: Evidence from New Jersey

Robert G. Wood and Anu Rangarajan

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

Local Evaluation Highlights from the 2015 Cohort of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Grantees Serving Adults

Christine Ross and Sarah Avellar

Research Review: Data-Driven Decision Making in Education Agencies. Data Driven, not Data Drowning

Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory