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

John Cawley, David Frisvold and David Jones

Early Childhood Development Programs in Global Contexts: Improving Quality

Anne Bridgman. Based on "Quality of Early Childhood Development Programs in Global Contexts: Rationale for Investment, Conceptual Framework Implications for Equity, " by Pia Rebello Britto, Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Kimberly Boller.

Evaluation of the Formal Technical Education Sub-Activity of the Human Development Project, El Salvador

Larissa Campuzano, Randall Blair, Virginia Poggio, Ivonne Padilla, Seth Morgan and Michael Brannan

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

Serving Elders at Risk: The Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs National Evaluation of the Elderly Nutrition Program 1993-1995. Volume I: Title III Evaluation Findings

Michael Ponza, James C. Ohls, Barbara E. Millen, Audrey M. McCool, Karen E. Needels, Linda Rosenberg, Dexter Chu, Catherine Daly and Paula A. Quatromoni

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

Lessons from a Federal Initiative to Build Capacity to End Youth Homelessness (Issue Brief)

Lisa Klein Vogel and M. C. Bradley

The Effects of Parenting Programs for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers

Julia Alamillo, Breyon Williams and Sarah Avellar

Ten Years of WIA Research

Paul T. Decker

Spotlight on Wyoming

Grace Anglin and Adam Swinburn

Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators (Executive Summary)

Kristin Geonnotti, Erin Fries Taylor, Deborah Peikes, Lisa Schottenfeld, Hannah Burak, Robert McNellis and Janice Genevro

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

Scott B. Richman and Jelani Mandara

Diversity in States' Early Implementation of the EACH Program

Suzanne Felt and George Wright

What Matters for Student Achievement? Exploring Teacher Instructional Practices and the Role of School-Level and Student-Level Characteristics

Scott Richman, Alicia Demers and Dmitriy Poznyak

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

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

Using Medical Records to Supplement a Claims-Based Comparative Effectiveness Analysis of Antidepressants (Journal Article)

Thomas W. Croghan, Dominick Esposito, Gregory Daniel, Peter Wahl and Michael A. Stoto

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

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

Martin R. West and Robin Lake

Forced Exit: Beneficiaries in Plans Terminating in 2000

Marsha Gold and Natalie Justh

ACO Operational Elements Toolkit

Nazihah Siddiqui, Sonya Streeter, Maggie Glos and Ethan Jacobs

Use of Hospital Emergency Services by Youths in Out-of-Home Care

Jonathan D. Brown, Ellen Singer and Henry T. Ireys

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

Designing the 2010 Census: First Interim Report

Panel on Research on Future Census Methods of which Allen L. Schirm is a Member

Juvenile Probation Transformation: Applying the Approach in Lucas County, OH, and Pierce County, WA

Sino Esthappan, Johanna Lacoe and Douglas Young

Programmes to Promote Employment for Disabled People: Lessons from the United States

Anu Rangarajan, David Wittenburg, Todd Honeycutt and Debra Brucker

Testimony for Hearing on Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Children

David Wittenburg

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

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

Pediatric Primary Care as a Component of Systems of Care

Jonathan D. Brown

Profile of Children Entering Los Angeles Universal Preschool LAUP, Fall 2007

Michael López, John Love, Cheri Vogel, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Susan Sprachman, Margaret Caspe, Kathy Sonnenfeld, Kim Hall, Jessica Brauner and Susan Cooper

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

Catherine McLaughlin, Margaret Colby, Gregory Bee and Jenna Libersky

Establishing and Maintaining Medicaid Eligibility Upon Release from Public Institutions

Audra Wenzlow, Henry T. Ireys, Carol Irvin and Matthew Hodges

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

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

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

Implementation of Mental Health Parity: Lessons from California

Margo L. Rosenbach, Timothy K. Lake, Susan R. Williams and Jeffrey A. Buck. Reprinted with permission from Psychiatric Services (Copyright 2009). American Psychiatric Association

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

Application of Path Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling in Nutrition and Dietetics

Jeffrey E. Harris and Philip Gleason

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2000

Karen E. Cunnyngham

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

Stephanie Peterson, Shanna Shulman and Henry Ireys

Early Predictors of Girls' Adolescent Sexual Activity: Longitudinal Findings from the Girls Shape the Future Study

Brian Goesling and Anu Rangarajan

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

Ronghua Cathy Lu, John Hall and Stephen Williams

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

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

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

Examining the Oral Language Competency of Children from Korean Immigrant Families in English-Only and Dual Language Immersion Schools

Jane Younga Choi, Jin Sook Lee and Janet S. Oh

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

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

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

An Evidence-Based Framework for SCHIP Reauthorization

Margo Rosenbach

Options for Attracting and Retaining Enrollment in Financial Alignment Initiatives for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

Integrated Resource Care Center

Firm Perspectives on the Medicare Advantage Market

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson and Tricia Neuman

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

Randall Blair, Anu Rangarajan and Ken Fortson

Provider Acceptance and Beneficiary Access Under TRICARE's PPO Health Plan

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Eric Schone and Richard Bannick

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

Claudia H. Williams and Marsha Gold

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

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Second-Year Snapshot of Earnings and Benefit Impacts for Stage 1

David Stapleton, David Wittenburg, David R. Mann, Denise Hoffman and Andrew McGuirk

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

Deborah Chollet, Su Liu and Laurie Felland

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

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

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

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

Alexandra Resch and Jonah Deutsch

Health Professionals and Patients in California: Speaking the Same Language

Diane Rittenhouse, Alicia Fernandez, Alexandra Ament and Janet Coffman

Niger NECS EGRA Descriptive Study Round 1

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

Social Health Maintenance Organizations: Transition into the Medicare+Choice Program

Judith Wooldridge, Randall Brown, Leslie Foster, Sheila Hoag, Carol Irvin. Robert L. Kane, Robert Newcomer, Barbara Schneider and Kenneth D. Smith

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

Katie Eddins and Kristen Joyce

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

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

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

Allison Zippay and Anu Rangarajan

Spring 2012 School Administrator Survey

Various Authors

A Systematic Review of Programs to Promote Aspects of Teen Parents’ Self-Sufficiency: Supporting Educational Outcomes and Healthy Birth Spacing

Jessica Harding, Jean Knab, Susan Zief, Kevin Kelly and Diana McCallum

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

Market Developments Signal Cost Hikes in Greenville

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Jon B. Christianson, Linda R. Brewster, Ashley C. Short, Richard Sorian, Robert E. Hurley, Lawrence D. Brown and Jessica H. May

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

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

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

Trends in FSP Participation Rates: Focus on August 1995

Scott Cody and Carole Trippe

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

Robert B. Olsen and Paul T. Decker

Participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program: New Estimates and Prospects for Growth

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Valarie A. Piper

Final Performance Evaluation Design for the Non-Formal Skills Development Activity (Memo)

Larissa Campuzano and Randall Blair

Mechanisms of Change in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Angela Fang, Gail Steketee, Aparna Keshaviah, Elizabeth Didie, Katharine A. Phillips and Sabine Wilhelm

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

Watching the Clock Tick: Factors Associated with TANF Accumulation

Kristin S. Seefeldt and Sean M. Orzol

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

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

James M. Verdier, Jenna Libersky and Jessica Gillooly

Interim Report for Evaluation of the ENRM Project in Malawi

Thomas Coen, Anthony D'Agostino, Naomi Dorsey, Arif Mamun, Hua Xie, Yating Ru, Ephraim Nkonya and Claudia Ringler

Erroneous Payments in the NSLP and SBP Volume II Sampling and Data Analysis Appendices: NSLP/SBP Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification Study

Michael Ponza, Philip M. Gleason, Eric Grau, John Hall, Lara Hulsey and Quinn Moore

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

Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt

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

Routine Emergency Department Use for Sick Care by Children in the United States

Neal Halfon, Paul W. Newacheck, David L. Wood and Robert F. St. Peter

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

Preparing Young Children for School

Margaret Burchinal, Sarah Krowka, Rebecca Newman-Gonchar, Madhavi Jayanthi, Russell Gersten, Samantha Wavell, Julia Lyskawa, Kelly Haymond, Karen Bierman, Jorge Gonzalez, Megan McClelland, Kimberly Nelson, Jill Pentimonti, David Purpura, Jason Sachs, Julie Sarama, Elizabeth Schlesinger-Devlin, Julie Washington and Emily Rosen

Reforming Medicaid: The Experiences of Five Pioneering States with Mandatory Managed Care and Eligibility Expansions

Randall Brown, Judith Wooldridge, Sheila Hoag and Lorenzo Moreno

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

Mariesa Herrmann and Christine Ross

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

John L. Czajka

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

Advocacy Capacity Assessment Instrument

Margaret Gerteis, Julia Coffman, Jung Kim and Krisztina Marton

The Structure and Operations of Social Enterprises in REDF's Social Innovation Fund Portfolio: Interim Report

Nan Maxwell, Dana Rotz, Adam Dunn, Linda Rosenberg and Jacqueline Berman

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

Linda Rosenberg and Elizabeth Brown

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

The Effects of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Youth

Julia Alamillo, Lane Ritchie and Robert G. Wood

Impacts of New Leaders on Student Achievement in Oakland

Kevin Booker and Jaime Thomas