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Self-Insurance and Stop Loss for Small Employers

Deborah Chollet

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1999

Randy Rosso and Catherine Palermo

Wealth Effect and Dental Care Utilization in the United States

Richard J. Manski, John F. Moeller, Haiyan Chen, Patricia A. St. Clair, Jody Schimmel and John Pepper

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

Best Practices in Competency-Based Education: Lessons from Three Colleges (In Focus Brief)

Ann Person

Supporting Families Through Coordinated Services Partnerships

Nickie Fung, Elizabeth Cavadel and Scott Baumgartner

Reaching More Hungry Children: The Seamless Summer Food Waiver

Tania Tasse and Jim Ohls

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

Sheila Hoag, Sean Orzol and Cara Orfield

Tips for Establishing an Effective COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program

Candace Miller

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

SNAP Food Security In-Depth Interview Study

Kathryn Edin, Melody Boyd, James Mabli, Jim Ohls, Julie Worthington, Sara Greene, Nicholas Redel and Swetha Sridharan

Pediatric Primary Care as a Component of Systems of Care

Jonathan D. Brown

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

Barbara Devaney, Alan Hershey and Debra Strong

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

Randall Blair, Anu Rangarajan and Ken Fortson

Diversity in States' Early Implementation of the EACH Program

Suzanne Felt and George Wright

Covering the Uninsured Through TennCare: Does It Make a Difference?

Lorenzo Moreno and Sheila D. Hoag

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

M. Robin Dion and Alan J. Hawkins

Engaging Stakeholders to Improve the Quality of Children's Health Care

Ellen Albritton, Margo Edmunds, Veronica Thomas, Dana Petersen, Grace Ferry, Cindy Brach and Linda Bergofsky

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

Clemencia Cosentino, Cecilia Speroni, Margaret Sullivan and Raúl Torres

Money Follows the Person: Updated State Transitions as of December 31, 2020

Victoria Peebles and Johanna Dolle

Spotlight on Wyoming

Grace Anglin and Adam Swinburn

Healthy San Francisco: Changes in Access to and Utilization of Health Care Services

Catherine McLaughlin, Margaret Colby, Gregory Bee and Jenna Libersky

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

Meg Maxwell and Natalie Graves

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

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

Using Evidence-Informed Practices to Advance Youth Self-Sufficiency and Well-Being (Presentation)

Annalisa Mastri

Assessing the Evidence of Effectiveness of Home Visiting Program Models Implemented in Tribal Communities

Patricia Del Grosso, Rebecca Kleinman, Andrea Mraz Esposito, Emily Sama Martin and Diane Paulsell

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 Dynamics of the Age Structure, Dependency, and Consumption

Heinrich Hock and David Weil

Advancing Geriatrics Research, Education, and Practice: Policy Challenges After the Great Recession

Judy T. Zerzan and Eugene C. Rich

Guide to MAX Data

Laura Ruttner, Rosemary Borck, Jessica Nysenbaum and Susan Williams

Medicare+Choice 1999-2001: An Analysis of Managed Care Plan Withdrawals and Trends in Benefits and Premiums

Lori Achman and 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

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

Social Security Administration Payments to State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies for Beneficiaries Who Work: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data

Jody Schimmel Hyde and Paul O'Leary

Using Conceptual Models to Tailor Programming on Adulthood Preparation Subjects to Pregnant and Parenting Youth

Jacqueline Crowley, Katie Adamek and Heather Zaveri

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

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

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

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

Addressing Teen Pregnancy Risks for Youth Living in Out-of-Home Care: Implementing POWER Through Choices 2010

Alicia Meckstroth, Megan Barry, Betsy Keating, Ellen Kisker and Kristine Andrews

Social and Economic Integration of Latino Immigrants in New Rural Destinations

Heather Koball, Randy Capps, William Kandel, Jamila Henderson and Everett Henderson

Case Management for Self-Employment Success: Emerging Lessons from the Self-Employment Training Program

Samia Amin, Caroline Massad Francis and Irma Perez-Johnson

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

A. Fiszbein, C. Cosentino and B. Cumsille

Resolvability, Screening, and Response Models in RDD Surveys: Utilizing GENESYS Telephone-Exchange Data

Ronghua Cathy Lu, John Hall and Stephen Williams

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

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

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

Disease Management: Does It Work?

Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet and G. Gregory Peterson

Ten Years of WIA Research

Paul T. Decker

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

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

Alabama's Current Insurance Market

Deborah Chollet, Kate Stewart and Suzie Witmer

Supporting Better Patient Decisions at the Point of Care: What Payers and Delivery Systems Can Do

Anna Collins, Cara Stepanczuk, Nyna Williams and Eugene Rich

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

Heidi M. Ferrar, Thelma Harms and Debby Cryer

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

Advancing the Self-Sufficiency and Well-Being of At-Risk Youth: A Conceptual Framework (Presentation)

M. Robin Dion

Beneficiary Understanding of Incentives: Evidence from Interim Demonstration Evaluation Reports in Indiana, Iowa, and Michigan

Rachel Miller, Kristin Maurer and Katharine Bradley

Maintenance of Certification Status and Performance on a Set of Process Measures

Bradley Gray, Jonathan Vandergrift, Bruce Landon, James Reschovsky and Rebecca Lipner

Participant and Provider Outcomes Since the Inception of Ticket to Work and the Effects of the 2008 Regulatory Changes

Jody Schimmel, David Stapleton, David R. Mann and Dawn Phelps

Reliability of the Deployment Resiliency Assessment

Samuel E. Simon, Kate Stewart, Michelle Kloc, Thomas V. Williams and Margaret C. Wilmoth

Improvement Efforts in Rural Schools: Experience of Nine Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants

Linda Rosenberg, Megan Davis Christianson and Megan Hague Angus

Detecting Enrollment Outbreaks in Three States: The Link Between Program Enrollment and Outreach

Carol Irvin, Christopher Trenholm and Margo Rosenbach

Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations Program Snapshot: MyGoals

Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

Determining Performance Benchmarks for a Medicaid Value-Based Payment

So O'Neil and Ella Douglas-Durham

The Effect of School Report Card Design on Usability, Understanding, and Satisfaction

Jesse Chandler, Jacob Hartog, Erin Lipman and Jonathan Gellar

Building Strong Families: Evaluating an Intervention to Nurture the Bond Between Unwed Parents

Sheena McConnell

Public Reporting of Quality Information on Medicaid Health Plans

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Allison Barrett and Rebecca Nyman

Special Report: The Potential of Wastewater Testing for Public Health and Safety

Aparna Keshaviah and Editor

Measuring School and Teacher Value Added in Charleston County School District, 2013-2014 School Year

Alexandra Resch and Jonah Deutsch

Interview Interruption and Responses to Questions About Domestic Violence in India

Brenna V. Rabel, Solveig A. Cunningham and Rob Stephenson

Measuring Principals' Effectiveness: Results from New Jersey's First Year of Statewide Principal Evaluation

Mariesa Herrmann and Christine Ross

Designing an Impact Study of Four Selected Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy

Robert G. Wood, Brian Goesling, Susan Zief and Jean Knab

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA): Summary of Stakeholder Input on Research Priorities

Kate Dunham, Jonah Deutsch, Armando Yañez and Pamela Holcomb

Opportunities and Capacity for Community Benefit: GHMSI's Potential Role in the National Capital Area

Deborah Chollet, Su Liu and Laurie Felland

Better Late? Characteristics of Late Respondents to a Health Care Survey

Esther M. Friedman, Nancy A. Clusen and Michael Hartzell

Response Rates in Random Digit Dialing (RDD) Telephone Surveys

James T. Massey, Dan O'Connor and Karol Krotki

In Their Own Words: WFNJ Clients Speak About Family, Work, and Welfare

Allison Zippay and Anu Rangarajan

Testing Different Methods of Estimating the Impacts of Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Systems

Robert B. Olsen and Paul T. Decker

Paper of the Year: Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization Quality of Care and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials (JAMA 2009)

Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen, Jennifer Schore and Randall Brown

The Effects of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Youth

Julia Alamillo, Lane Ritchie and Robert G. Wood

Toolkit for Building a Virtual Learning Cohort

Brittany Rabb, Emily Gardner, Emma Pottinger, Ramya Tallapragada, Alexandra Resch, Theodora Vorias and Virginia Knechtel

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on Transition WORKS

Thomas Fraker, Alison Black, Arif Mamun, Michelle Manno, John Martinez, Bonnie O'Day, Meghan O'Toole, Anu Rangarajan and Debbie Reed

Exploring and Overcoming the Challenges Primary Care Practices Face with Care Management of High-Risk Patients in CPC+: A Mixed-Methods Study

Tricia Collins Higgins, Ann O'Malley and Rosalind Keith

Accounting for Co-Teaching: A Guide for Policymakers and Developers of Value-Added Models

Eric Isenberg and Elias Walsh

Applying Advocacy Skills in Tumultuous Times: Adaptive Capacity of Insuring America's Children Grantees (Executive Summary)

Jung Y. Kim, Victoria Peebles and Christopher A. Trenholm

State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Adults with Mental Illness

Henry Ireys, Lori Achman and Ama Takyi

Are Nurses Ready for Health Care Reform?: A Decade of Survey Research

Peter I. Buerhaus, Catherine DesRoches, Sandra Applebaum, Robert Hess, Linda D. Norman and Karen Donelan

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Client Tracking Form

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

The Three E's: Enrollment, Employment, and Earnings in the Medicaid Buy-In Program, 2006

Gilbert Gimm, Sarah R. Davis, Kristin L. Andrews, Henry T. Ireys and Su Liu

Human Services for Low-Income and At-Risk LGBT Populations: An Assessment of the Knowledge Base and Research Needs

Andrew Burwick, Gary Gates, Scott Baumgartner and Daniel Friend

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 4 Slides: NSF)

Cynthia Phillips, Rebecca Kruse, Amanda Cash and Dan Finkelstein

Trends in FSP Participation Rates: Focus on August 1995

Scott Cody and Carole Trippe

Factors Contributing to Variations in Physicians' Use of Evidence at The Point of Care: A Conceptual Model

James D. Reschovsky, Eugene C. Rich and Timothy K. Lake

First Year Impacts of the Heritage Keepers® Life Skills Education Component

Melissa A. Clark and Barbara Devaney

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Three School Meals and Weekend Food Backpacks on Food Security in Virginia

Michael Burke, Charlotte Cabili, Danielle Berman, Sarah Forrestal and Philip Gleason

Data Visualization and Infographics (In Focus)

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Simulated Versus Actual SNAP Unit Composition in Survey Households in Two States

John L. Czajka, Karen Cunnyngham and Randy Rosso

Experiences of Germany and the Netherlands in Serving Transition-Age Youth

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

Modified Adjusted Gross Income: Implications for Medicaid Eligibility Systems Under the ACA

Carrie Au-Yeung and John Czajka

Societal Costs of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in the United States

Dara Lee Luca, Nellie Garlow, Colleen Staatz, Caroline Margiotta and Kara Zivin

A Focused Look at Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants That Have Percentages of English Language Learner Students

Laura Golden, Barbara Harris, Diana Mercado-Garcia, Andrea Boyle, Kerstin Carlson Le Floch and Jennifer O'Day