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Standards for Regression Discontinuity Designs

P. Schochet, T. Cook, J. Deke, Guido Imbens, J.R. Lockwood, J. Porter and J. Smith

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

Technical Report of the NAEP Mathematics Assessment in Puerto Rico: Focus on Statistical Issues

G.P. Baxter, S. Ahmed, E. Sikali, T. Waits, M. Sloan and S. Salvucci

Hospitals' Early Experience with the National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Meredith Lee and Myles Maxfield

The Medigap Market: Product and Pricing Trends, 1999-2001

Deborah Chollet

How Reliable are the Birth Certificate Variables for Mothers with Medicaid Coverage?

Embry M. Howell, Justin W. Morgan, Caitlin Cross-Barnet, Elizabeth Potamites and Keith Kranker

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

Modeling Administrative Costs in the Summer Food Service Program

Marsha Silverberg and James Ohls

SMI Innovations Project in Pennsylvania: Final Evaluation Report

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

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

Sunyna S. Williams and Sloane L. Frost

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

Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt

Links Between Young Children's Behavior and Achievement: The Role of Social Class and Classroom Composition

Annie Georges, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Lizabeth M. Malone

Niger NECS EGRA Descriptive Study Round 1

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

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

Keith Kranker

Predicting Preschooler Obesity at Birth: The Role of Maternal Obesity in Early Pregnancy

Robert C. Whitaker

Strategies to Ensure HITECH Supports the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Lorenzo Moreno, Deborah Peikes and Amy Krilla

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

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

The Cost-Effectiveness of High-Risk Lung Cancer Screening and Drivers of Program Efficiency

Sonya Cressman, Stuart J. Peacock, Martin C. Tammemägi, William K. Evans, Natasha B. Leighl, John R. Goffin, Alain Tremblay, Geoffrey Liu, Daria Manos, Paul MacEachern, Rick Bhatia, Serge Puksa, Garth Nicholas, Annette McWilliams, John R. Mayo, John Yee, John C. English, Reka Pataky, Emily McPherson, Sukhinder Atkar-Khattra, Michael R. Johnston, Heidi Schmidt, Frances A. Shepherd, Kam Soghrati, Kayvan Amjadi, Paul Burrowes, Christian Couture, Harmanjatinder S. Sekhon, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Glenwood Goss, Diana N. Ionescu, David M. Hwang, Simon Martel, Don D. Sin, Wan C. Tan, Stefan Urbanski, Zhaolin Xu, Ming-Sound Tsao and Stephen Lam

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

Claudia H. Williams and Marsha Gold

Health Professionals and Patients in California: Speaking the Same Language

Diane Rittenhouse, Alicia Fernandez, Alexandra Ament and Janet Coffman

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

Angela Merrill

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

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

Enticing Dually Eligible Beneficiaries to Enroll in Integrated Care Plans

Debra J. Lipson and Erin Weir Lakhmani

Who's Monitoring the Monitors? Examining Monitors' Accuracy and Consistency to Improve the Quality Assurance Process

Joe Baker, Claudia Gentile, Jason Markesich and Shawn Marsh

School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study Volume 1: School Meal Program Operations and School Nutrition Environments (Summary)

Sarah Forrestal, Charlotte Cabili, Dallas Dotter, Christopher W. Logan, Patricia Connor, Maria Boyle, Ayesha Enver and Hiren Nissar

Developing Competency-Based Program Models in Three Community Colleges

Ann E. Person, Lisbeth Goble and Julie Bruch

Can Administrative Records Be Used to Reduce Nonresponse Bias?

John L. Czajka

A Compilation of Initiatives to Support Home-Based Child Care

Toni Porter, Tahra Nichols, Patricia Del Grosso, Carol Begnoche, Rachel Hass, Lee Vuong and Diane Paulsell

“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

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

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Valarie A. Piper

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

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

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

James M. Verdier, Jenna Libersky and Jessica Gillooly

Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care

Diane Paulsell, Toni Porter and Gretchen Kirby

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

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

Ryan Stringer and Alena Tourtellotte

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

Gina Livermore and Sarah Prenovitz

Wastewater Surveillance of Pathogens can Inform Public Health Responses

Megan B. Diamond, Aparna Keshaviah, Ana I. Bento, Otakuye Conroy-Ben, Erin M. Driver, Katherine B. Ensor, Rolf U. Halden, Loren P. Hopkins, Katrin G. Kuhn, Christine L. Moe, Eric C. Rouchka, Ted Smith, Bradley S. Stevenson, Zachary Susswein, Jason R. Vogel, Marlene K. Wolfe, Lauren B. Stadler and Samuel V. Scarpino

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

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

Paul Decker

Spring 2012 School Administrator Survey

Various Authors

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

LaDonna Pavetti, Debra Strong and Ruchika Bajaj

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

Ha Tu, Len Finocchio, Annie Doubleday and Kristie Liao

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

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

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

Impacts of Waiting Periods for Home- and Community-Based Services on Consumers and Medicaid Costs in Iowa (Presentation)

Greg Peterson, Randy Brown and Allison Barrett

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

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

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

Corinne P. Lewis

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

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

Lori Achman and Deborah Chollet

The Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Strategies to Put Patients at the Center of Primary Care

Deborah Peikes, Janice Genevro, Sarah Scholle and Phyllis Torda

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

Philip Gleason, Tania Tasse, Kenneth Jackson and Patricia Nemeth

An Impact that Lasts: KIPP Middle Schools Boost College Enrollment

Thomas Coen, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Philip Gleason

Large Numbers of Estimates for Small Areas

Allen L. Schirm, Alan M. Zaslavsky and John L. Czajka

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

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

Emily Sama-Miller and Jacqueline Kauff

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

Nan Maxwell and Erin Dillon

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

Enrollment and Disenrollment Experiences of Families Covered by CHIP

Christopher Trenholm, Mary Harrington and Claire Dye

An Evaluation of Short-Time Compensation Programs

Stuart Kerachsky, Walter Nicholson, Edward Cavin and Alan Hershey

ILAB Synthesis Review

Josh Meuth Alldredge and Sarah Humpage Liuzzi

How Prepared are Americans for Public Health Emergencies? Twelve Communities Weigh In

Megan McHugh, Andrea B. Staiti and Laurie E. Felland

Developing a Coherent Plan for Effectively Using Data (In Focus Brief)

Various Authors

An Evaluation of the Federal Supplemental Compensation Program

Walter Corson, Jean Grossman and Walter Nicholson

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

Developing Medicare and Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending Estimates

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

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

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

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: A Case Study of Virginia's FAMIS Program

Sarah Benatar, Margo Wilkinson and Ian 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

Medicare Advantage in 2008

Marsha Gold

Practitioner’s Playbook for Applying Behavioral Insights to Labor Programs

Matthew Darling, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Samia Amin, Irma Perez-Johnson, Greg Chojnacki and Mikia Manley

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

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

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

Findings from HeA PA and Implications for ACA Implementation

Leslie Foster, Adam Dunn and Maggie Colby

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

Paolo Abarcar

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

Keith Kranker

Redesign of the Income Questions in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement: Further Analysis of the 2014 Split-Sample Test

John L. Czajka and Randy Rosso

Building Strong Families: From Concept to Reality

Debra A. Strong, Alan M. Hershey and M. Robin Dion

Exploring Fathering Roles in Low-Income Families: The Influence of Intergenerational Transmission

Jeffrey Shears, Jean Ann Summers, Kimberly Boller and Gina Barclay-McLaughlin

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

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

Debra Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Jeffrey Ballou

Medical Homes: Will They Improve Primary Care?

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

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

Donald Rose, Jean-Pierre Habicht and Barbara Devaney

QRS Profile: Iowa Child Care Quality Rating System

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Review of WIC Food Packages: Proposed Framework for Revisions, Interim Report

Committee to review WIC food packages of which Mary Kay Fox is a Member

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

Evaluation of the Local Initiative Rewarding Results Collaborative Demonstrations

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Gilbert Gimm and Stephanie Peterson

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

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

Evaluation of Expeditionary Learning Middle Schools (In Focus Brief)

Various Authors

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Data Quality Study

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

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

Sharing Study Data: A Guide for Education Researchers

Ruth Neild, Danielle Robinson and Jacqueline Agufa

Parent Perspectives on Care Received at Patient-Centered Medical Homes for Their Children with Special Health Care Needs

Dana Petersen, Lisa Schottenfeld, Caroline Massad Francis, Henry Ireys and Joseph Zickafoose

Physician Perspectives on Medical Home Recognition for Practice Transformation for Children

Dana M. Petersen, Joseph Zickafoose, Mynti Hossain and Henry Ireys

Collaborating with Faith- and Community-Based Organizations: Lessons Learned from 12 Workforce Investment Boards

Diane Paulsell, Jeffrey Max, Michelle Derr and Andrew Burwick

A Descriptive Analysis of Older Adults in Houston/Harris County, Texas

William Black, Randall Brown, Karen CyBulski and John Hall

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

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

Holly Matulewicz, Karen Donelan and Forest Crigler