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New Respondent Reminder Methods and the Effects on Response Rate for an Establishment Survey: Matthew Anderson, Mellissa Krakowiecki, Larry Vittoriano, Karen CyBulski and Cathie Alderks
Large Numbers of Estimates for Small Areas: Allen L. Schirm, Alan M. Zaslavsky and John L. Czajka
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
Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans: Jeffrey Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee C. Vermeulen and Marian V. Wrobel
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
QRS Profile: Iowa Child Care Quality Rating System: Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout
A Mobile Tool for Health Workers: Promising Results in Bihar, India: Evan Borkum, Dana Rotz and Anu Rangarajan
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
A Study of Well-Being Visits to Families on Iowa's Limited Benefit Plan: Lucia A. Nixon, Elizabeth F. Closter and Thomas M. Fraker
Families on a Fault Line? The Risk of Poverty When a Child Joins the Home: Marybeth J. Mattingly, Andrew Schaefer and Douglas J. Gagnon
Barriers to Evidence-Based Physician Decision-Making at the Point of Care: A Narrative Literature Review: Kara Contreary, Anna Collins and Eugene C. Rich
Developing a Coherent Plan for Effectively Using Data (In Focus Brief): Various Authors
Translating Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) to Current Monthly Income: John L. Czajka
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
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
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
Standards for Regression Discontinuity Designs: P. Schochet, T. Cook, J. Deke, Guido Imbens, J.R. Lockwood, J. Porter and J. Smith
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA): Summary of Stakeholder Input on Research Priorities: Kate Dunham, Jonah Deutsch, Armando YaÃ±ez and Pamela Holcomb
Medicare Advantage in 2008: Marsha Gold
Delivering Employment Retention and Advancement Services: A Process Study of Iowa's Post-Employment Pilot Program: Heather Hill, Gretchen Kirby and Thomas Fraker
Evaluation of UNICEF's Early Childhood Development Programme with Focus on Government of Netherlands Funding (2008-2010): Nepal Country Case Study Report: Kimberly Boller, Kathy Buek, Andrew Burwick, Minki Chatterji, Diane Paulsell, Samia Amin, Evan Borkum, Larissa Campuzano and Jessica Jacobson
Early Lessons from the Building Strong Families Project: Sarah Avellar, M. Robin Dion, Heather H. Zaveri and Alan M. Hershey
An Impact that Lasts: KIPP Middle Schools Boost College Enrollment: Thomas Coen, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Philip Gleason
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
Early Experiences of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3): Cohort 1 Pilots: Linda Rosenberg and Elizabeth Brown
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
Data Visualization and Infographics (In Focus): Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research
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
Case Study of a Collaborative Approach to Improving Community-Based Services for People with Low Income: Community Caring Collaborative: Katie Eddins and Kristen Joyce
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
The Educational and Behavioral Impacts of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Charter School: Matthew Johnson, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Scott Richman, Alicia Demers, Claudia Gentile and Eric Lindquist
A Descriptive Analysis of Older Adults in Houston/Harris County, Texas: William Black, Randall Brown, Karen CyBulski and John Hall
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
TANF Caseload Survey: Common Instrument: Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research
Impacts of New Leaders on Student Achievement in Oakland: Kevin Booker and Jaime Thomas
Sacramento: Pressures to Control Costs Persist Alongside Growing Capacity and Access Challenges: Ha Tu, Len Finocchio, Annie Doubleday and Kristie Liao
Emails Prompt Employees to Save More for Retirement (Brief): Samia Amin, Greg Chojnacki, Irma Perez-Johnson, Matthew Darling, Aravind Moorthy and Jaclyn Lefkowitz
HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 4 Slides: NSF): Cynthia Phillips, Rebecca Kruse, Amanda Cash and Dan Finkelstein
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
Advocacy Capacity Assessment Instrument: Margaret Gerteis, Julia Coffman, Jung Kim and Krisztina Marton
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
Design of the CMS Medical Home Demonstration: Myles Maxfield, Deborah Peikes, Rachel Shapiro, Hongmai Pham, Ann O'Malley, Sarah Scholle and Phyllis Torda
Better Late? Characteristics of Late Respondents to a Health Care Survey: Esther M. Friedman, Nancy A. Clusen and Michael Hartzell
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
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
SMI Innovations Project in Pennsylvania: Final Evaluation Report: Jung Y. Kim, Tricia Collins Higgins, Dominick Esposito, Angela M. Gerolamo and Mark Flick
Advancing the Self-Sufficiency and Well-Being of At-Risk Youth: A Conceptual Framework (Presentation): M. Robin Dion
Maintenance of Certification Status and Performance on a Set of Process Measures: Bradley Gray, Jonathan Vandergrift, Bruce Landon, James Reschovsky and Rebecca Lipner
State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Adults with Mental Illness: Henry Ireys, Lori Achman and Ama Takyi
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
Preparing High School Students for College and Career: Evidence from Youth CareerConnect: Nan Maxwell and Erin Dillon
Beneficiary Understanding of Incentives: Evidence from Interim Demonstration Evaluation Reports in Indiana, Iowa, and Michigan: Rachel Miller, Kristin Maurer and Katharine Bradley
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
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
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
Spotlight on Georgia: Grace Anglin and Adam Swinburn
Demographics of Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities Who are Not Working and Not in School: Descriptive Findings from National Survey Data: Anna Hill and Purvi Sevak
Integrated Appeal and Grievance Processes for Integrated D-SNPs with â€œExclusively Aligned Enrollmentâ€: Ryan Stringer and Alena Tourtellotte
Practitionerâ€™s Playbook for Applying Behavioral Insights to Labor Programs: Matthew Darling, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Samia Amin, Irma Perez-Johnson, Greg Chojnacki and Mikia Manley
Human Services for Low-Income and At-Risk LGBT Populations: An Assessment of the Knowledge Base and Research Needs: Andrew Burwick, Gary Gates, Scott Baumgartner and Daniel Friend
Evaluation of the Local Initiative Rewarding Results Collaborative Demonstrations: Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Gilbert Gimm and Stephanie Peterson
The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on Transition WORKS: Thomas Fraker, Alison Black, Arif Mamun, Michelle Manno, John Martinez, Bonnie O'Day, Meghan O'Toole, Anu Rangarajan and Debbie Reed
The Efficacy of Using Financial Incentives to Change Unhealthy Behaviors Among a Rural Chronically Ill and Uninsured Population: Keith Kranker
Work-Related Overpayment and Benefit Suspension Experiences of Federal Disability Beneficiaries: Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore
Accounting for Co-Teaching: A Guide for Policymakers and Developers of Value-Added Models: Eric Isenberg and Elias Walsh
An Evaluation of the Federal Supplemental Compensation Program: Walter Corson, Jean Grossman and Walter Nicholson
The Effect of School Report Card Design on Usability, Understanding, and Satisfaction: Jesse Chandler, Jacob Hartog, Erin Lipman and Jonathan Gellar
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
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
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 Oâ€™Brien and Brittany Tabora
Geographic Variation in Medicare Per Capita Spending: Should Policy-Makers Be Concerned? (Policy Brief): Claudia H. Williams and Marsha Gold
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
How Prepared are Americans for Public Health Emergencies? Twelve Communities Weigh In: Megan McHugh, Andrea B. Staiti and Laurie E. Felland
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
Web-Based Screeners and Applications: Potential Tools for Improving Benefit Access and Program Efficiency: Emily Sama-Miller and Jacqueline Kauff
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
Building Strong Families: From Concept to Reality: Debra A. Strong, Alan M. Hershey and M. Robin Dion
â€œMaybe Itâ€™s Still Good?â€ 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
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
Can Administrative Records Be Used to Reduce Nonresponse Bias?: John L. Czajka
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
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
Economic Grand Rounds: The Costs of Parity Mandates for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Insurance Benefits: Merrile Sing and Steven Hill
What Do We Know About the Link Between Marriage and Health?: Heather L. Koball, Emily Moiduddin, Jamila Henderson, Brian Goesling and Melanie Besculides
The Role of Intermediaries in Linking TANF Recipients With Jobs: LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle Derr, Jacquelyn Anderson, Carole Trippe and Sidnee Paschal
Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care: Diane Paulsell, Toni Porter and Gretchen Kirby
The Road to Trans-Inclusive Health Care: Policy Implications and the Critical Role of Social Work: Corinne P. Lewis
Exploring Fathering Roles in Low-Income Families: The Influence of Intergenerational Transmission: Jeffrey Shears, Jean Ann Summers, Kimberly Boller and Gina Barclay-McLaughlin
Mini-MAX User's Guide: Ellen Bouchery, David Baugh, John Czajka, Rosemary Borck, Rosalie Malsberger, Allison Dodd, Sheng Wang, Carol Irvin and Julie Sykes
Collaborating with Faith- and Community-Based Organizations: Lessons Learned from 12 Workforce Investment Boards: Diane Paulsell, Jeffrey Max, Michelle Derr and Andrew Burwick
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
Challenges and Opportunities in Engaging Low-Income Populations with Disabilities in Web Surveys (Presentation): Holly Matulewicz, Karen Donelan and Forest Crigler
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
Medicaid Managed Care and Working-Age Beneficiaries with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses: Henry T. Ireys, Craig Thornton and Hunter McKay
Education-to-Workforce Indicator Framework: Using Data to Promote Equity and Economic Security for All: Naihobe Gonzalez, Elizabeth Alberty, Stacey Brockman, Tutrang Nguyen, Matthew Johnson, Sheldon Bond, Krista O'Connell, Adrianna Corriveau, Megan Shoji and Megan Streeter
National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Client Contact Log: Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research
Opportunities and Capacity for Community Benefit: GHMSI's Potential Role in the National Capital Area: Deborah Chollet, Su Liu and Laurie Felland
In Their Own Words: WFNJ Clients Speak About Family, Work, and Welfare: Allison Zippay and Anu Rangarajan
Benefit-Cost Analysis in Evaluations of U.S. Training Programs: Paul Decker
Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2006: Karen E. Cunnyngham, Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

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