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Successful Care Coordination and the ACA

Randy Brown

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

John Cawley, David Frisvold and David Jones

A Study of States' TANF Diversion Programs

Linda Rosenberg, Michelle Derr, LaDonna Pavetti, Subahi Asheer, Megan Hague Angus, Samina Sattar and Jeffrey Max

Assessment of the Train the Trainer Project Using the Helping You Take Care of Yourself Curriculum

Melanie Besculides, Lisa Trebino, Sarah Jones and Jung Kim

An Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers: Key Institutional Features of American Job Centers

Elizabeth Brown and Pamela Holcomb

Quality Care for Children with ADHD: The Role of Primary Care Physicians

Stephanie Peterson, Shanna Shulman and Henry Ireys

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

Catherine McLaughlin, Margaret Colby, Gregory Bee and Jenna Libersky

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

M. Robin Dion and Alan J. Hawkins

The Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program: A Synthesis of Major Findings

Ronald D'Amico and Peter Z. Schochet

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

Ann Person

Measuring Teacher and School Value Added in Oklahoma, Spring 2016

Albert Y. Liu, Elias Walsh and Dallas Dotter

An Evidence-Based Framework for SCHIP Reauthorization

Margo Rosenbach

Self-Insurance and Stop Loss for Small Employers

Deborah Chollet

Spotlight on Wyoming

Grace Anglin and Adam Swinburn

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

Annalisa Mastri

National and State Trends in Enrollment and Spending for Dual Eligibles Under Age 65 in Medicaid Managed Care

Jenna Libersky, Allison Hedley Dodd and Shinu Verghese

Charter School Authorizers and Student Achievement (Journal Article)

Ron Zimmer, Brian Gill, Jonathon Attridge and Kaitlin Obenauf

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

Impact of the Switch to Managed Care on the Use of Medicaid Services in Tennessee

Merrile Sing

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

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

Samia Amin, Caroline Massad Francis and Irma Perez-Johnson

Advancing Girls' Education in Developing Countries (English version issue brief)

Emilie Bagby, Anca Dumitrescu, Cara Orfield and Matt Sloan

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

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

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

Cynthia Phillips, Rebecca Kruse, Amanda Cash and Dan Finkelstein

Reaching More Hungry Children: The Seamless Summer Food Waiver

Tania Tasse and Jim Ohls

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

KIPP Middle Schools Produce Significant Achievement Gains in Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies (In Focus Brief)

Various Authors

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

Quality of Care Initiatives for CSHCN: Building the Foundation

Henry T. Ireys

Home Health Care: Prospective Payment Reduces Visits While Preserving Quality

Valerie Cheh

Analysis of Transition Events in Health Insurance Coverage

John L. Czajka and James Mabli

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

James M. Verdier

A Profile of Young Children in the Los Angeles Healthy Kids Program: Who Are They and What Are Their Experiences on the Program?

Embry Howell, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve Kenney, Louise Palmer, Ian Hill, Moira Inkelas and Martha Kovac

The Growth of Private Plans in Medicare, 2006

Marsha Gold

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

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

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

Nan L. Maxwell, Dana Rotz and Christina Garcia

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

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

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

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

Jody Schimmel Hyde and Paul O'Leary

Recruiting and Training Home Visitors for Evidence-Based Home Visiting (EBHV): Experience of EBHV Grantees

Brandon Coffee-Borden and Diane Paulsell

EACH Program Evaluation: State Site Visit Reports on Early Implementation

Suzanne Felt, George Wright and Anthony Wellever

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

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

Robert C. Whitaker and Ankur Sarin

Private Sector Partnerships for Global Nutrition Impact: Early Learnings

Clair Null, Kimberly Smith and Drew Koleros

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

Lara Hulsey, Michelle Van Noy and Marsha K. Silverberg

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

Heidi M. Ferrar, Thelma Harms and Debby Cryer

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

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

National Job Corps Study: The Impacts of Job Corps on Participants' Literacy Skills

Steven Glazerman, Peter Z. Schochet and John Burghardt

Evaluation of the Zanzibar Interconnector Activity: Findings from the Hotel Study

John Schurrer, Nicholas Redel, Duncan Chaplin and Arif Mamun

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

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

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

Research Review: Understanding Discipline Disparities in Maryland (Infographic)

Johanna Lacoe and Mikia Manley

Diabetes Prevalence, Outcomes, and Preventive Services Among Maryland Medicare Beneficiaries, 2002

Angela Merrill and So Sasigant Limpa-Amara

Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2006

Karen E. Cunnyngham, Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

Medicaid Managed Care and Working-Age Beneficiaries with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses

Henry T. Ireys, Craig Thornton and Hunter McKay

Examination of the Effect of SNAP Benefit and Eligibility Parameters on Low-Income Households

Joshua Leftin, Thomas Godfrey, James Mabli, Nancy Wemmerus and Stephen Tordella

The Third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: Background and Study Design

Anne R. Gordon, Rhoda Cohen, Mary Kay Crepinsek, Mary Kay Fox, John Hall and Eric Zeidman

National Evaluation of Early Reading First

Russell Jackson, Ann McCoy, Carol Pistorino, Anna Wilkinson, John Burghardt, Melissa Clark, Christine Ross, Peter Schochet, Paul Swank and Stefanie Schmidt

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

Jesse Chandler, Jacob Hartog, Erin Lipman and Jonathan Gellar

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

Evaluation of Expeditionary Learning Middle Schools (In Focus Brief)

Various Authors

The Educational and Behavioral Impacts of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Charter School

Matthew Johnson, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Scott Richman, Alicia Demers, Claudia Gentile and Eric Lindquist

Study of Teacher Coaching Based on Classroom Videos: Impacts on Student Achievement and Teachers’ Practices

Melissa Clark, Jeffrey Max, Susanne James-Burdumy, Silvia Robles, Moira McCullough, Paul Burkander and Steven Malick

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

Carol Irvin, Christopher Trenholm and Margo Rosenbach

Cyclical Fluctuations in Strike Activity

Sheena McConnell

Niger NECS EGRA Descriptive Study Round 1

Emilie Bagby, Anca Dumitrescu, Kristine Johnston, Cara Orfield and Matt Sloan

The APEC II Study: Estimating and Validating Statistical Models for Generating State-Level Estimates of Improper Payments in the School Meal Programs (Summary)

Quinn Moore and April Yanyuan Wu

Data Visualization and Infographics (In Focus)

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Average Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs for Medicare+Choice Enrollees Increase 10 Percent in 2003

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

The Return Motivations of Legal Permanent Migrants: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks and Immigrants in Australia

Paolo Abarcar

Implications of Health Homes for NCQA Health Plan Accreditation

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

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

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

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

Medical Homes: Will They Improve Primary Care?

Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet, Deborah Peikes and G. Gregory Peterson

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

Case Study of a Collaborative Approach to Improving Community-Based Services for People with Low Income: Community Caring Collaborative

Katie Eddins and Kristen Joyce

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: A Case Study of New York's Child Health Plus Program

Ian Hill and Sarah Benatar

The Kigoma Solar Activity in Tanzania: Evaluation Findings (Issue Brief)

Divya Vohra, Edith Felix, Duncan Chaplin and Arif Mamun

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

Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

Effects of a Community-Based Care Management Model for Super Utilizers

Purvi Sevak, Cara N. Stepanczuk, Katharine W.V. Bradley, Tim Day, Greg Peterson, Boyd Gilman, Laura Blue, Keith Kranker, Kate Stewart and Lorenzo Moreno

Effectiveness of Four Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions

Susanne James-Burdumy, John Deke, Russell Gersten, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Rebecca Newman-Gonchar, Joseph Dimino, Kelly Haymond and Albert Yung-Hsu Liu

The Santa Clara County Healthy Kids Program: Impacts on Children's Medical, Dental, and Vision Care

Christopher Trenholm, Embry M. Howell, Dana Hughes and Sean Orzol

Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation for Federal Evaluation Staff

Mary Anne Anderson and Annalisa Mastri

National and State Program Participation Ratios for Working-Age People with Disabilities

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

Effects of Medicaid Disease Management Programs on Medical Expenditures: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Georgia

Keith Kranker

Electronic Health Records and Support for Primary Care Teamwork

Ann S. O'Malley, Kevin Draper, Rebecca Gourevitch, Dori A. Cross and Sarah Hudson Scholle

Web-Based Screeners and Applications: Potential Tools for Improving Benefit Access and Program Efficiency

Emily Sama-Miller and Jacqueline Kauff

Estimating the Incidence of Unintended Births and Pregnancies at the Sub-State Level to Inform Program Design

Keith Kranker, Sarah Bardin, So O'Neil and Dara Lee Luca

ILAB Synthesis Review

Josh Meuth Alldredge and Sarah Humpage Liuzzi

“Maybe It’s Still Good?†A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing Food Waste and Application of the E.P.A. Food Recovery Hierarchy in U.S. Supermarkets

Caitlin A. Ceryes, Cerra C. Antonacci, Steven A. Harvey, Marie L. Spiker, Anna Bickers and Roni A. Neff

Identifying Effective Health Care Services for Adults with Disabilities: Why Study Designs and Outcome Measures Matter

Debra Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Jeffrey Ballou

The Effect of Breast-Feeding with and without Formula Use on the Risk of Obesity at 4 Years of Age

Debra L. Bogen, Barbara H. Hanusa and Robert C. Whitaker

A Year in Head Start: Findings from FACES 2014 on Children’s Progress Toward School Readiness During the 2014-2015 Program Year

Ashley Kopack Klein, Nikki Aikens, Lizabeth Malone and Louisa Tarullo

Advocacy Capacity Assessment Instrument

Margaret Gerteis, Julia Coffman, Jung Kim and Krisztina Marton

A Portrait of Head Start Classrooms and Programs: FACES Spring 2017 Data Tables and Study Design

Sara Bernstein, Charles Bush, Nikki Aikens, Emily Moiduddin, Jessica F. Harding, Lizabeth Malone, Louisa Tarullo, Judy Cannon, Kai Filipczak and Serge Lukashanets

SMI Innovations Project in Pennsylvania: Final Evaluation Report

Jung Y. Kim, Tricia Collins Higgins, Dominick Esposito, Angela M. Gerolamo and Mark Flick

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

Kate Dunham, Jonah Deutsch, Armando Yañez and Pamela Holcomb