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

Menbere Shiferaw, Dana Rotz and Robert G. Wood

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

APPI Cross-Site Evaluation: Interim Report

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

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

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

Wilfredo Lim and Carol V. Irvin

Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification

Jill Constantine

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

Using Multiple Comparison Groups to Address Unobserved Biases in Comparative Effectiveness Research

Frank B. Yoon, Haiden A. Huskamp, Alisa B. Busch and Sharon-Lise T. Normand

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

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

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2007 FSPQC Database and QC Minimodel

Kari Wolkwitz and Daisy Ewell

Standardized Testing: Mend It, Don't End It

Steven Glazerman

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

Nan L. Maxwell, Dana Rotz and Christina Garcia

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

James Verdier

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

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

Ronghua Cathy Lu, John Hall and Stephen Williams

Disease Management: Does It Work?

Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet and G. Gregory Peterson

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

Home Health Care: Prospective Payment Reduces Visits While Preserving Quality

Valerie Cheh

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

Stephanie Peterson, Shanna Shulman and Henry Ireys

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

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

Various Authors

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

Supporting High Quality Informal Child Care in Detroit

Mynti Hossain, Jaime Thomas, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Nazihah Siddiqui, Amaka Osuoha and Patrick Balke

Measuring Teacher and School Value Added in Oklahoma, Spring 2016

Albert Y. Liu, Elias Walsh and Dallas Dotter

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

Assessing the Usability of MAX 2008 Encounter Data for Enrollees in Comprehensive Managed Care

Vivian L. H. Byrd, Allison Hedley Dodd, Rosalie Malsberger and Ashley Zlatinov

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1999

Randy Rosso and Catherine Palermo

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

Eric Lammers

Using the Type of Bill to Classify Institutional Claims in 2017 (Brief)

Allison Barrett, Laura Nolan, Mary Allison Geibel, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

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

Randall Blair, Anu Rangarajan and Ken Fortson

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

Food Stamp Program Access

James Ohls

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

ACO Operational Elements Toolkit

Nazihah Siddiqui, Sonya Streeter, Maggie Glos and Ethan Jacobs

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

Peter Z. Schochet, John Burghardt and Steven Glazerman

The Role of Reinsurance in State Efforts to Expand Coverage

Deborah Chollet

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

Judy T. Zerzan and Eugene C. Rich

School Food Environments and Practices Affect Dietary Behaviors of US Public School Children

Ronette R. Briefel, Mary Kay Crepinsek, Charlotte Cabili, Ander Wilson and Philip M. Gleason

Household Finished Flooring and Soil-Transmitted Helminth and Giardia Infections among Children in Rural Bangladesh and Kenya: A Prospective Cohort Study

Jade Benjamin-Chung, Yoshika S. Crider, Andrew Mertens, Ayse Ercumen, Amy J. Pickering, Audrie Lin, Lauren Steinbaum, Jenna Swarthout, Mahbubur Rahman, Sarker M. Parvez, Rashidul Haque, Sammy M. Njenga, Jimmy Kihara, Clair Null, Stephen P. Luby, John M. Colford, Jr. and Benjamin F. Arnold

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

Ronald D'Amico and Peter Z. Schochet

The Georgetown Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

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

Private Plans in Medicare: A 2007 Update

Marsha Gold

An Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers: Resource Sharing Practices Among AJCs

Brittany English and Sarah Osborn

Quality of Care Initiatives for CSHCN: Building the Foundation

Henry T. Ireys

Performance of New Cognitive Assessments with Head Start Children: Emerging Evidence from FACES and AIAN FACES 2019

Tutrang Nguyen, Lizabeth Malone, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Addison Larson and Judy Cannon

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

Building a Future: Interim Impact Findings from the YouthBuild Evaluation

Cynthia Miller, Megan Millenky, Lisa Schwartz, Lisbeth Goble and Jillian Stein

Association of Organizational Factors and Physician Practices’ Participation in Alternative Payment Models

Mariétou H. Ouayogodé, Taressa Fraze, Eugene C. Rich and Carrie Colla

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

Firm Perspectives on the Medicare Advantage Market

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson and Tricia Neuman

Helping Young People in High-Poverty Communities: Lessons from Youth Fair Chance

Karen Needels, Mark Dynarski and Walter Corson

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

Annalisa Mastri

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

Meg Maxwell and Natalie Graves

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

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

Ha Tu, Len Finocchio, Annie Doubleday and Kristie Liao

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

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

Clinical Quality Measurement (Fact Sheet)

Cindy Cullen and Sam Simon

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Client Tracking Form

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Niger NECS EGRA Descriptive Study Round 1

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

Findings from HeA PA and Implications for ACA Implementation

Leslie Foster, Adam Dunn and Maggie Colby

Practice Workflows, Reporting Time, and Implementation Experiences Associated with PVRP

Angela Merrill

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

The Effects of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Youth

Julia Alamillo, Lane Ritchie and Robert G. Wood

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

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

Enticing Dually Eligible Beneficiaries to Enroll in Integrated Care Plans

Debra J. Lipson and Erin Weir Lakhmani

Impacts of New Leaders on Student Achievement in Oakland

Kevin Booker and Jaime Thomas

Emerging Federal and State Activities Related to the Collection of Data to Measure Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Patricia Collins Higgins and Erin Fries Taylor

The BASIE (BAyeSian Interpretation of Estimates) Framework for Interpreting Findings from Impact Evaluations: A Practical Guide for Education Researchers

John Deke, Mariel Finucane and Daniel Thal

A Mobile Tool for Health Workers: Promising Results in Bihar, India

Evan Borkum, Dana Rotz and Anu Rangarajan

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

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

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

Robert B. Olsen and Paul T. Decker

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

Jesse Chandler, Jacob Hartog, Erin Lipman and Jonathan Gellar

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

M. Robin Dion

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

“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

Hospitals' Early Experience with the National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Meredith Lee and Myles Maxfield

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program: Impacts on Program Access and Integrity

Philip Gleason, Tania Tasse, Kenneth Jackson and Patricia Nemeth

Interview Interruption and Responses to Questions About Domestic Violence in India

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

Design of the CMS Medical Home Demonstration

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

Longitudinal Outcomes of an Early Cohort of Ticket to Work Participants

Gina A. Livermore and Allison Roche

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

Readiness and Implementation of Quality Improvement Strategies Among Small and Medium-Sized Primary Care Practices: An Observational Study

Gregory Peterson and David J. Magid

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

Differences Among Consumer Segments with Regard to Perceptions of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Sunyna S. Williams and Sloane L. Frost

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

Jeffrey Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee C. Vermeulen and Marian V. Wrobel

Benefit-Cost Analysis in Evaluations of U.S. Training Programs

Paul Decker

The Efficacy of Using Financial Incentives to Change Unhealthy Behaviors Among a Rural Chronically Ill and Uninsured Population

Keith Kranker

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

Lori Achman and Deborah Chollet

Parent Partners: Evaluation of a Novel Peer-Support Intervention for the Caregivers of Children Hospitalized for Behavioral Health Conditions

Eric J. Lammers, Joseph S. Zickafoose, G. Greg Peterson, Laura Blue, Kate A. Stewart and Keith Kranker

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

Nan Maxwell and Erin Dillon

Work-Related Overpayment and Benefit Suspension Experiences of Federal Disability Beneficiaries

Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore

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

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

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of North Carolina's Health Choice for Children Program

Corinna Hawkes and Embry Howell

Moving into Adulthood: Were the Impacts of Mandatory Programs for Welfare-Dependent Teenage Parents Sustained After the Programs Ended?

Ellen Eliason Kisker, Anu Rangarajan and Kimberly Boller

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

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

Integrating Care for Dual Eligibles in New York: Issues and Options

James M. Verdier, Jenna Libersky and Jessica Gillooly