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ACO Operational Elements Toolkit

Nazihah Siddiqui, Sonya Streeter, Maggie Glos and Ethan Jacobs

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

Robert G. Wood and Anu Rangarajan

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

Martin R. West and Robin Lake

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

Meg Maxwell and Natalie Graves

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

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

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1999

Randy Rosso and Catherine Palermo

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

Erin Gemmill, Patricia Nemeth, Peter Schochet and Jillian Berk

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

Physician Perspectives on the Influence of Medical Home Recognition on Practice Transformation and Care Quality for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Dana Petersen, Joseph Zickafoose, Mynti Hossain and Henry Ireys

Location, Location, Location: Hospital Outpatient Prices Much Higher than Community Settings for Identical Services

James D. Reschovsky and Chapin White

An Evidence-Based Framework for SCHIP Reauthorization

Margo Rosenbach

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

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

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

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

Eric Isenberg and Elias Walsh

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

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

Eric Lammers

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

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

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

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

Creating TANF and Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Partnerships

Emily Sama Martin, LaDonna Pavetti and Jacqueline Kauff

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

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

Emilie Bagby, Anca Dumitrescu, Cara Orfield and Matt Sloan

Understanding the Costs of the DOL Welfare-to-Work Grants Program

Irma Perez-Johnson, Debra Strong, Michelle VanNoy and Charles Nagatoshi

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

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

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

Ten Years of WIA Research

Paul T. Decker

Exploring Potential Sources of Childhood Trauma: A Qualitative Study with Autistic Adults and Caregivers

Connor M. Kerns, Stephen Lankenau, Paul Shattuck, Diana L. Robins, Craig J. Newschaffer and Steven J. Berkowitz

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

Guidelines for Multiple Testing in Impact Evaluations of Educational Interventions

Peter Z. Schochet

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

Various Authors

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

Danielle Whicher, Lexi Ouellette and Julia Alamillo

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

Stephanie Peterson, Shanna Shulman and Henry Ireys

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

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

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

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

Candice Talkington and Sonya Streeter

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

Alabama's Current Insurance Market

Deborah Chollet, Kate Stewart and Suzie Witmer

The Effects of Parenting Programs for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers

Julia Alamillo, Breyon Williams and Sarah Avellar

National Job Corps Study: The Impacts of Job Corps on Participants' Employment and Related Outcomes

Peter Z. Schochet, John Burghardt and Steven Glazerman

Nutrition Services Program Participation and the Diet Quality of Older Adults

Elizabeth Gearan, James Mabli and Katherine Niland

The Georgetown Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Karen Sautter, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Arnold Chen, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol

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

Reaching More Hungry Children: The Seamless Summer Food Waiver

Tania Tasse and Jim Ohls

Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries in HMOs

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

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

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

Danielle Chelminsky

Maintaining Flexible Telehealth Policies After COVID-19

Suzanne Felt-Lisk

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

Sheila Hoag, Sean Orzol and Cara Orfield

Measurement Error Properties in an Accelerometer Sample of U.S. Elementary School Children

Nicholas Beyler, Susanne James-Burdumy, Martha Bleeker, Jane Fortson and Max Benjamin

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

Jacqueline Crowley, Katie Adamek and Heather Zaveri

Ticket to Success: Early Findings from the Ticket to Work Evaluation, Introduction to the Special Issue

Robert R. Weathers and David Wittenburg

Who Enrolls in Community-Based Programs for the Uninsured, and Why Do They Stay?

Erin Fries Taylor, Catherine G. McLaughlin, Anne W. Warren and Paula H. Song

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

Medical Homes: Will They Improve Primary Care?

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

Enrollment and Disenrollment Experiences of Families Covered by CHIP

Christopher Trenholm, Mary Harrington and Claire Dye

Employment Support for the Transition to Retirement: Can a New Program Help Older Workers Continue to Work and Protect Those Who Cannot? (Brief)

David Stapleton

Performance Evaluation of the Non-Formal Skills Development Sub-Activity: Interim Results, 2009 to 2010 (Memo)

Larissa Campuzano, Elena Blebea, Randall Blair, Seth Morgan and Carolyn Chuong

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

TANF Caseload Survey: Common Instrument

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

“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

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

What Can We Learn from County-Level Variation in Child SSI Participation Rates?

Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt

Implementing a Whole Health Model in a Community Mental Health Center: Impact on Service Utilization and Expenditures

Ellen E. Bouchery, Allison Wishon Siegwarth, Brenda Natzke, Jennifer Lyons, Rachel Miller, Henry T. Ireys, Jonathan D. Brown, Elena Argomaniz and Rochelle Doan

Modeling Administrative Costs in the Summer Food Service Program

Marsha Silverberg and James Ohls

Response Rates in Random Digit Dialing (RDD) Telephone Surveys

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

The Pathway to SSA Disability Program Entry Among Medicaid Enrollees 2007-2011: The Role of Serious Mental Illness, Multiple Impairments, and Recent Healthcare Utilization

Judith A. Cook and Jane K. Burke-Miller

Translating Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) to Current Monthly Income

John L. Czajka

Welfare Policy in Transition: Redefining the Social Contract for Poor Citizen Families with Children and for Immigrants

LaDonna Pavetti, Debra Strong and Ruchika Bajaj

The Effects of a Principal Professional Development Program Focused on Instructional Leadership (Study Highlights)

Mariesa Herrmann, Melissa Clark, Susanne James-Burdumy, Christina Tuttle, Tim Kautz, Virginia Knechtel, Dallas Dotter, Claire Smither Wulsin and John Deke

Using Behavioral Insights to Help Employers Resolve OSHA Citations: Trial Design and Findings (Final Report)

Greg Chojnacki, Jonah Deutsch, Samia Amin, Irma Perez-Johnson, Matthew Darling and Jaclyn Lefkowitz

Geographic Variation in Medicare Per Capita Spending: Should Policy-Makers Be Concerned?

Claudia H. Williams and Marsha Gold

Toolkit for Building a Virtual Learning Cohort

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

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

Methodological Approaches to Understanding Causes of Health Disparities

Neal Jeffries, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Ana V. Diez Roux, John W. Creswell, Richard C. Palmer, Steven E. Gregorich, James D. Reschovsky, Barry I. Graubard, Kelvin Choi, Ruth M. Pfeiffer, Xinzhi Zhang and Nancy Breen

Preparing High School Students for College and Career: Evidence from Youth CareerConnect

Nan Maxwell and Erin Dillon

Determining Performance Benchmarks for a Medicaid Value-Based Payment Program (Presentation)

So O'Neil, Ella Douglas-Durham, Jon Collins, Pat Jones and Alicia Cooper

National Job Corps Study: Methodological Appendixes on Sample Implementation and Baseline Interviewing

Peter Schochet

The Effects of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Youth

Julia Alamillo, Lane Ritchie and Robert G. Wood

Benefits Planning, Assistance, and Outreach (BPAO) Service User Characteristics and Use of Work Incentives

Gina Livermore and Sarah Prenovitz

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

Training Teens and Transforming School Culture Through Comprehensive Sex Education: An Implementation Study of Teen PEP

Subuhi Asheer, Ellen Kisker and Betsy Keating

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

Paolo Abarcar

State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Adults with Mental Illness

Henry Ireys, Lori Achman and Ama Takyi

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

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

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

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

Henry T. Ireys, Craig Thornton and Hunter McKay

SMI Innovations Project in Pennsylvania: Final Evaluation Report

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

Design of the CMS Medical Home Demonstration

Myles Maxfield, Deborah Peikes, Rachel Shapiro, Hongmai Pham, Ann O'Malley, Sarah Scholle and Phyllis Torda

An Evaluation of the Feasibility of a Substate Area Extended Benefit Program

John L. Czajka, Sharon K. Long, Walter Nicholson, Susan Allin, Ann Huff and Charles Post

Early Experiences of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3): Cohort 1 Pilots

Linda Rosenberg and Elizabeth Brown

Advocacy Capacity Assessment Instrument

Margaret Gerteis, Julia Coffman, Jung Kim and Krisztina Marton

Continued Progress in Performance Measurement Reporting by SCHIP

Margo Rosenbach, Anna Katz and Sibyl Day

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

Implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Synthesis of State Evaluations

Margo Rosenbach, Marilyn Ellwood, Carol Irvin, Cheryl Young, Wendy Conroy, Brian Quinn and Megan Kell

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Data Quality Study

Kenneth W. Jackson, Scott Peecksen, Donsig Jang and Amang Sukasih

Household Participation in the Food Stamp and WIC Programs Increases the Nutrient Intakes of Preschool Children

Donald Rose, Jean-Pierre Habicht and Barbara Devaney

Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Participants' Perceptions and Understanding of the Affordable Care Act

Elyse R. Park, Anne C. Kirchhoff, Giselle K. Perez, Wendy Leisenring, Joel S. Weissman, Karen Donelan, Ann C. Mertens, James D. Reschovsky, Gregory T. Armstrong, Leslie L. Robison, Mariel Franklin, Kelly A. Hyland, Lisa R. Diller, Christopher J. Recklitis and Karen A. Kuhlthau

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