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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

Alabama's Current Insurance Market

Deborah Chollet, Kate Stewart and Suzie Witmer

Easing the Part D Transition: An Evaluation of Federal and State Efforts to Ensure Dual Eligibles and Other Low-Income Beneficiaries Maintain Prescription Drug Coverage

Ann Bagchi, Matthew Hodges, Christine Yip and Sandra Nelson

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

Elizabeth Brown and Pamela Holcomb

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

M. Robin Dion and Alan J. Hawkins

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

James M. Verdier

Testimony for Hearing on Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Children

David Wittenburg

Spotlight on Oregon

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

The Cost of Implementing a Home Visiting Program Designed to Prevent Repeat Pregnancies Among Adolescent Mothers

Theresa Schulte Neelan and Brian Goesling

The Role of State Faith Community Liaisons in Charitable Choice Implementation

Pamela Winston, Ann E. Person and Elizabeth Clary

Evaluation of the Tanzania Energy Sector Project: Final Update of Design Report

Duncan Chaplin, Arif Mamun, Candace Miller, Ali Protik and John Schurrer

Nutrition Services Program Participation and the Diet Quality of Older Adults

Elizabeth Gearan, James Mabli and Katherine Niland

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

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

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 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

The Roles of Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations in Coordinating Patient Care

David Meyers, Debbie Peikes, Janice Genevro, Greg Peterson, Erin Fries Taylor, Tim Lake, Kim Smith and Kevin Grumbach

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

Brandon Coffee-Borden and Diane Paulsell

Home Health Care: Prospective Payment Reduces Visits While Preserving Quality

Valerie Cheh

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

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Fabrice Smieliauskas

The Dynamics of the Age Structure, Dependency, and Consumption

Heinrich Hock and David Weil

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

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

Robert G. Wood and Anu Rangarajan

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

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Early Impacts from a Multi-Site Random Assignment Evaluation

Ankita Patnaik, Michael Levere, Gina Livermore, Arif Mamun and Jeffrey Hemmeter

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

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

Firm Perspectives on the Medicare Advantage Market

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson and Tricia Neuman

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

Danielle Chelminsky

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

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

The Role of Reinsurance in State Efforts to Expand Coverage

Deborah Chollet

An Evidence-Based Framework for SCHIP Reauthorization

Margo Rosenbach

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

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

Clemencia Cosentino, Cecilia Speroni, Margaret Sullivan and Raúl Torres

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

Joshua Leftin

Self-Insurance and Stop Loss for Small Employers

Deborah Chollet

Disparities in Post-Transition Outcomes by Level of Care Needs Among Former Nursing Home Residents

Wilfredo Lim and Carol V. Irvin

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

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

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

The Growth of Private Plans in Medicare, 2006

Marsha Gold

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

Scott B. Richman and Jelani Mandara

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

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

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

Menbere Shiferaw, Dana Rotz and Robert G. Wood

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

Victoria Peebles and Johanna Dolle

Medicaid & CHIP and the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

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Can Care Coordination (CC) Help Control Medicare Costs

Randy Brown, Debbie Peikes, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

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

Eugene Rich and Anna Collins

Evaluation of Mountain Health Choices: Implementation, Challenges, and Recommendations

Michael Hendryx, Carol Irvin, James Mulligan, Sally Richardson, Johnna S. Beane and Margo Rosenbach

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

Robert C. Whitaker and Ankur Sarin

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

Samia Amin, Caroline Massad Francis and Irma Perez-Johnson

The Pass†Through of a Tax on Sugar†Sweetened Beverages in Boulder, Colorado

John Cawley, David Frisvold, David Jones and Chelsea Lensing

2022 Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods

Jason Markesich and Stacie Feldman

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

Judy T. Zerzan and Eugene C. Rich

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

Emily Sama-Miller and Jacqueline Kauff

After-Hours Care and Its Coordination with Primary Care in the U.S

Ann S. O'Malley, Divya Samuel, Amelia M. Bond and Emily Carrier

Advocacy Capacity Assessment Instrument

Margaret Gerteis, Julia Coffman, Jung Kim and Krisztina Marton

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

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

Public Reporting of Quality Information on Medicaid Health Plans

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Allison Barrett and Rebecca Nyman

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

John L. Czajka, Karen Cunnyngham and Randy Rosso

Enrollment and Disenrollment Experiences of Families Covered by CHIP

Christopher Trenholm, Mary Harrington and Claire Dye

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

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

Can Administrative Records Be Used to Reduce Nonresponse Bias?

John L. Czajka

Design of the CMS Medical Home Demonstration

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

Do Investments in Local Public Health Infrastructure Improve Community Health? Findings from the National Public Health Performance Standards Program

Glen P. Mays, Megan McHugh, Kyumin Shim, Natalie Perry, Paul Halverson, Dennis Lenaway, Sergey Sotnikov and Ramal Moonesinghe

Sacramento: Pressures to Control Costs Persist Alongside Growing Capacity and Access Challenges

Ha Tu, Len Finocchio, Annie Doubleday and Kristie Liao

Developing Medicare and Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending Estimates

Ellen Bouchery, Rick Harwood, Rosalie Malsberger, Emily Caffery, Jessica Nysenbaum and Kerianne Hourihan

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

The Founding of an Urban Charter School: Three Years of Academic Growth and Key School Characteristics

Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Ava Madoff, Scott Richman, Matthew Johnson and Claudia Gentile

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

Debra Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Jeffrey Ballou

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

Emails Prompt Employees to Save More for Retirement (Brief)

Samia Amin, Greg Chojnacki, Irma Perez-Johnson, Matthew Darling, Aravind Moorthy and Jaclyn Lefkowitz

Families on a Fault Line? The Risk of Poverty When a Child Joins the Home

Marybeth J. Mattingly, Andrew Schaefer and Douglas J. Gagnon

Continued Progress in Performance Measurement Reporting by SCHIP

Margo Rosenbach, Anna Katz and Sibyl Day

The Road to Trans-Inclusive Health Care: Policy Implications and the Critical Role of Social Work

Corinne P. Lewis

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

Paolo Abarcar

Challenges and Opportunities in Engaging Low-Income Populations with Disabilities in Web Surveys (Presentation)

Holly Matulewicz, Karen Donelan and Forest Crigler

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

Quarterly Youth Unemployment Rates in Large Metro Areas, 2020–2021

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

Toolkit for Building a Virtual Learning Cohort

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

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

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

Carrie Au-Yeung and John Czajka

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

Alexandra Resch and Jonah Deutsch

What Do We Know About the Link Between Marriage and Health?

Heather L. Koball, Emily Moiduddin, Jamila Henderson, Brian Goesling and Melanie Besculides

Economic Grand Rounds: The Costs of Parity Mandates for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Insurance Benefits

Merrile Sing and Steven Hill

Using Data-Driven Reflection to Improve Program Quality: New York City's Human Resources Administration Redesigns Its Upfront Assessment Process for Youth and Families Receiving Cash Assistance

Michelle K. Derr, Erin Welch, Angela Ghesquiere, Edith Kealey, Dina Zagari-LiMandri, Lyndsey Richardson, Genesis Reyes, Samantha Palermo, Alexandra Stanczyk, Joseph O’Brien and Brittany Tabora

Factors Associated with Disparities in Hospital Readmission Rates Among US Adults Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid

David Silvestri, Demetri Goutos, Anouk Lloren, Sheng Zhou, Guohai Zhou, Thalia Farietta, Sana Charania, Jeph Herrin, Alon Peltz, Zhenqiu Lin and Susannah Bernheim

State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Adults with Mental Illness

Henry Ireys, Lori Achman and Ama Takyi

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

Insuring the Uninsurable: An Overview of State High-Risk Health Insurance Pools

Lori Achman and Deborah Chollet

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

M. Robin Dion

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

Gina Livermore and Sarah Prenovitz

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

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

Linda Rosenberg and Elizabeth Brown

Health Professionals and Patients in California: Speaking the Same Language

Diane Rittenhouse, Alicia Fernandez, Alexandra Ament and Janet Coffman

Association Between Imposition of a Maintenance of Certification Requirement and Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Hospitalizations and Health Care Costs

Bradley M. Gray, Jonathan L. Vandergrift, Mary M. Johnston, James D. Reschovsky, Lorna A. Lynn, Eric S. Holmboe, Jeffrey S. McCullough and Rebecca S. Lipner

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Client Tracking Form

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Barriers to Evidence-Based Physician Decision-Making at the Point of Care: A Narrative Literature Review

Kara Contreary, Anna Collins and Eugene C. Rich

Integrated Appeal and Grievance Processes for Integrated D-SNPs with “Exclusively Aligned Enrollmentâ€

Ryan Stringer and Alena Tourtellotte