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

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

Do Low-Income Students have Equal Access to the Highest-Performing Teachers? (Technical Appendix)

Steven Glazerman and Jeffrey Max

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

Physician Perspectives on Medical Home Recognition for Practice Transformation for Children

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

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

Debra Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Jeffrey Ballou

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

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

Claudia H. Williams and Marsha Gold

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

Angela Merrill

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

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

Deborah Chollet

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

Training Teens and Transforming School Culture Through Comprehensive Sex Education: An Implementation Study of Teen PEP

Subuhi Asheer, Ellen Kisker and Betsy Keating

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Arkansas PROMISE Process Analysis Report

Todd Honeycutt, Brittney Gionfriddo, Jacqueline Kauff, Joseph Mastrianni, Nicholas Redel and Adele Rizzuto

Health Professionals and Patients in California: Speaking the Same Language

Diane Rittenhouse, Alicia Fernandez, Alexandra Ament and Janet Coffman

Considerations for Reopening Pennsylvania Schools

Brian Gill, Ravi Goyal, Jacob Hartog, John Hotchkiss and Danielle DeLisle

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

Developing Medicare and Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending Estimates

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

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

John L. Czajka, Karen Cunnyngham and Randy Rosso

Societal Costs of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in the United States

Dara Lee Luca, Nellie Garlow, Colleen Staatz, Caroline Margiotta and Kara Zivin

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

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

Gregory Peterson and David J. Magid

National Job Corps Study: Methodological Appendixes on Sample Implementation and Baseline Interviewing

Peter Schochet

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

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

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Valarie A. Piper

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

Sunyna S. Williams and Sloane L. Frost

Implications of Health Homes for NCQA Health Plan Accreditation

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

Funding Special Education by Capitation: Evidence from State Finance Reforms

Elizabeth Dhuey and Stephen Lipscomb

Public Reporting of Quality Information on Medicaid Health Plans

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Allison Barrett and Rebecca Nyman

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

Strategies to Ensure HITECH Supports the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Lorenzo Moreno, Deborah Peikes and Amy Krilla

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

Response Rates in Random Digit Dialing (RDD) Telephone Surveys

James T. Massey, Dan O'Connor and Karol Krotki

The Effects of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Youth

Julia Alamillo, Lane Ritchie and Robert G. Wood

Toolkit for Building a Virtual Learning Cohort

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

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Client Tracking Form

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

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

The Kigoma Solar Activity in Tanzania: Evaluation Findings (Issue Brief)

Divya Vohra, Edith Felix, Duncan Chaplin and Arif Mamun

An Evaluation of Short-Time Compensation Programs

Stuart Kerachsky, Walter Nicholson, Edward Cavin and Alan Hershey

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

Determining Performance Benchmarks for a Medicaid Value-Based Payment

So O'Neil and Ella Douglas-Durham

Paper of the Year: Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization Quality of Care and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials (JAMA 2009)

Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen, Jennifer Schore and Randall Brown

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

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

Mariesa Herrmann and Christine Ross

ILAB Synthesis Review

Josh Meuth Alldredge and Sarah Humpage Liuzzi

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

Enrollment and Disenrollment Experiences of Families Covered by CHIP

Christopher Trenholm, Mary Harrington and Claire Dye

Performance Measurement for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Modernization Initiatives: Integrated Report

Laura Castner, Amy Wodarek O'Reilly, Kevin Conway, Maura Bardos and Emily Sama-Miller

Children's Progress During the 2010-2011 LAUP Year

Yange Xue, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Emily Moiduddin, Sharon Murphy and Artineh Samkian

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

Robert B. Olsen and Paul T. Decker

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

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

Lori Achman and Deborah Chollet

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

The Effects of a Principal Professional Development Program Focused on Instructional Leadership (Study Highlights)

Mariesa Herrmann, Melissa Clark, Susanne James-Burdumy, Christina Tuttle, Tim Kautz, Virginia Knechtel, Dallas Dotter, Claire Smither Wulsin and John Deke

Continued Progress in Performance Measurement Reporting by SCHIP

Margo Rosenbach, Anna Katz and Sibyl Day

Cyclical Fluctuations in Strike Activity

Sheena McConnell

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

Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation for Federal Evaluation Staff

Mary Anne Anderson and Annalisa Mastri

Modeling Administrative Costs in the Summer Food Service Program

Marsha Silverberg and James Ohls

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

Paolo Abarcar

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

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

Interview Interruption and Responses to Questions About Domestic Violence in India

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

Findings from HeA PA and Implications for ACA Implementation

Leslie Foster, Adam Dunn and Maggie Colby

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

Larissa Campuzano and Randall Blair

Watching the Clock Tick: Factors Associated with TANF Accumulation

Kristin S. Seefeldt and Sean M. Orzol

Coding-Driven Changes in Measured Risk in Accountable Care Organizations

Michael E. Chernew, Jessica Carichner, Jeron Impreso, J. Michael McWilliams, Thomas G. McGuire, Sartaj Alam, Bruce E. Landon and Mary Beth Landrum

The Horizons Study: Third Follow-UP Questionnaire

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

Electronic Health Records and Support for Primary Care Teamwork

Ann S. O'Malley, Kevin Draper, Rebecca Gourevitch, Dori A. Cross and Sarah Hudson Scholle

Improvement Efforts in Rural Schools: Experience of Nine Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants

Linda Rosenberg, Megan Davis Christianson and Megan Hague Angus

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

Estimating the Incidence of Unintended Births and Pregnancies at the Sub-State Level to Inform Program Design

Keith Kranker, Sarah Bardin, So O'Neil and Dara Lee Luca

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

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

LaDonna Pavetti, Debra Strong and Ruchika Bajaj

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Data Quality Study

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

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

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

Building Strong Families: Evaluating an Intervention to Nurture the Bond Between Unwed Parents

Sheena McConnell

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

Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt

Niger NECS EGRA Descriptive Study Round 1

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

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

Randall Brown, Judith Wooldridge, Sheila Hoag and Lorenzo Moreno

Spring 2012 School Administrator Survey

Various Authors

Enticing Dually Eligible Beneficiaries to Enroll in Integrated Care Plans

Debra J. Lipson and Erin Weir Lakhmani

Strategic Engagement of Policymakers Is Key to Advancing a Children's Health Care Coverage Policy Agenda

Debra Draper, Laurie Felland, Ian Hill and Sara Hogan

What Have We Learned Using Merged Administrative Data from the Social Security Administration and the Rehabilitation Services Administration?

David Stapleton and Frank Martin

Underusers of Mammogram Screening: Stage of Adoption in Five U.S. Subpopulations

Anne M. Stoddard, Barbara K. Rimer, Dorothy Lane, Sarah A. Fox, Issac Lipkus, Roger Luckmann, Jill Spitz Avrunin, Susan Sprachman, Mary Costanza and Nicole Urban

Income Security for Workers: A Stressed Support System in Need of Innovation

David C. Stapleton, Richard Burkhauser, Peiyun She, Robert R. Weathers and Gina A. Livermore

Patient Dismissal by Primary Care Practices (Journal Article)

Ann O’Malley, Kaylyn Swankoski, Deborah Peikes, Jesse Crosson, Nancy Duda, Timothy Day and Shannon Heitkamp

Measuring School Leaders' Effectiveness: Findings from a Multiyear Pilot of Pennsylvania's Framework for Leadership (Stated Briefly)

Moira McCullough, Stephen Lipscomb, Hanley Chiang, Brian Gill and Irina Cheban

The SSDI Trust Fund: New Solutions to an Old Problem

David Stapleton and David Wittenburg

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years (Executive Summary)

Hanley Chiang, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann, Kristin Hallgren, Paul Burkander and Alison Wellington

Predictors of Long-Term Recovery in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: Data from a 22-Year Longitudinal Study

Debra L. Franko, Nassim Tabri, Aparna Keshaviah, Helen B. Murray, David B. Herzog, Jennifer J. Thomas, Kathryn Coniglio, Pamela K. Keel and Kamryn T. Eddy

Reimagining Accountability in K-12 Education

Brian P. Gill, Jennifer S. Lerner and Paul Meosky

The Role of Psychiatric Hospitals in the Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines

Jonathan Brown and Nadia Bell

Descriptive Data on Region XI Head Start Children and Families: AIAN FACES Spring 2020 Data Tables and Study Design

Myley Dang, Sara Bernstein, Elizabeth Doran, Ann Li, Ashley Kopack Klein, Natalie Reid, Myah Scott, Sharika Rakibullah, Judy Cannon, Jeff Harrington, Addison Larson, Nikki Aikens, Louisa Tarullo and Lizabeth Malone

Practice Characteristics of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners and Physicians

Peter I. Buerhaus, Catherine M. DesRoches, Robert Dittus and Karen Donelan

Quality Reporting on Medicare's Compare Sites: Lessons Learned from Consumer Research, 2001-2014

Margaret Gerteis, Cicely Thomas, Lauren Blatt, Sally Crelia, Alyson Marano Ward, Kelly Moriarty, Monica Sarmiento, Myra Tanamor and Russ Tisinger

National Survey of SSI Children and Families Data Collection and Survey Content

Susan Mitchell

An Exploration of Instructional Practices that Foster Language Development and Comprehension: Evidence from Prekindergarten through Grade 3 in Title I Schools

Hanley Chiang, Elias Walsh, Timothy Shanahan, Claudia Gentile, Alyssa Maccarone, Tiffany Waits, Barbara Carlson and Samuel Rikoon

The Multiple Comparisons Problem in IES Impact Evaluations: Guidelines and Applications

Peter Z. Schochet and John Deke