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The Economic Impact of Fleet Conversion to a Multi-Function Ventilator Due to Changes in Oxygen Usage

Suzanne M. Miller, Erwin Navarijo, George Fandaros, Sheng Wang, Michael Pappas and Richard Branson

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

Enticing Dually Eligible Beneficiaries to Enroll in Integrated Care Plans

Debra J. Lipson and Erin Weir Lakhmani

Enrollment and Disenrollment Experiences of Families Covered by CHIP

Christopher Trenholm, Mary Harrington and Claire Dye

Interview Interruption and Responses to Questions About Domestic Violence in India

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

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

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

Linda Rosenberg and Elizabeth Brown

Large Numbers of Estimates for Small Areas

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

First Year Impacts of the Heritage Keepers® Life Skills Education Component

Melissa A. Clark and Barbara Devaney

Medicaid Managed Care and Working-Age Beneficiaries with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses

Henry T. Ireys, Craig Thornton and Hunter McKay

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Client Contact Log

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

John L. Czajka, Karen Cunnyngham and Randy Rosso

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

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

Gregory Peterson and David J. Magid

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

Strategies to Ensure HITECH Supports the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Lorenzo Moreno, Deborah Peikes and Amy Krilla

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

Steven Glazerman and Jeffrey Max

Early Lessons from the Building Strong Families Project

Sarah Avellar, M. Robin Dion, Heather H. Zaveri and Alan M. Hershey

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

Developing Medicare and Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending Estimates

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

Better Late? Characteristics of Late Respondents to a Health Care Survey

Esther M. Friedman, Nancy A. Clusen and Michael Hartzell

Medical Homes: Will They Improve Primary Care?

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

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

Debra Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Jeffrey Ballou

Emails Prompt Employees to Save More for Retirement (Brief)

Samia Amin, Greg Chojnacki, Irma Perez-Johnson, Matthew Darling, Aravind Moorthy and Jaclyn Lefkowitz

QRS Profile: Miami-Dade Quality Counts

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

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

Evan Borkum, Dana Rotz and Anu Rangarajan

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

Emily Sama-Miller and Jacqueline Kauff

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

Paul Decker

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

Paolo Abarcar

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

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

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

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

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

Keith Kranker

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

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

A Study of Well-Being Visits to Families on Iowa's Limited Benefit Plan

Lucia A. Nixon, Elizabeth F. Closter and Thomas M. Fraker

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

ILAB Synthesis Review

Josh Meuth Alldredge and Sarah Humpage Liuzzi

Diabetes Prevalence, Outcomes, and Preventive Services Among Maryland Medicare Beneficiaries, 2002

Angela Merrill and So Sasigant Limpa-Amara

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

Deborah Chollet

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

Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore

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

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

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

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

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

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

Beneficiary Understanding of Incentives: Evidence from Interim Demonstration Evaluation Reports in Indiana, Iowa, and Michigan

Rachel Miller, Kristin Maurer and Katharine Bradley

Clinical Quality Measurement (Fact Sheet)

Cindy Cullen and Sam Simon

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

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

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

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

Sunyna S. Williams and Sloane L. Frost

Funding Special Education by Capitation: Evidence from State Finance Reforms

Elizabeth Dhuey and Stephen Lipscomb

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

Data Visualization and Infographics (In Focus)

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Delivering Employment Retention and Advancement Services: A Process Study of Iowa's Post-Employment Pilot Program

Heather Hill, Gretchen Kirby and Thomas Fraker

Design of the CMS Medical Home Demonstration

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

Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations Program Snapshot: MyGoals

Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

Parental Report of Outdoor Playtime as a Measure of Physical Activity in Preschool-Aged Children

Hilary L. Burdette, Robert C. Whitaker and Stephen R. Daniels

Toolkit for Building a Virtual Learning Cohort

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

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

Subuhi Asheer, Ellen Kisker and Betsy Keating

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

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

Economic Grand Rounds: The Costs of Parity Mandates for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Insurance Benefits

Merrile Sing and Steven Hill

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

Accounting for Co-Teaching: A Guide for Policymakers and Developers of Value-Added Models

Eric Isenberg and Elias Walsh

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

Corinne P. Lewis

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

Modified Adjusted Gross Income: Implications for Medicaid Eligibility Systems Under the ACA

Carrie Au-Yeung and John Czajka

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

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

William Black, Randall Brown, Karen CyBulski and John Hall

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

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

Sheena McConnell

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

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

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

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

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

Spring 2012 School Administrator Survey

Various Authors

Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care

Diane Paulsell, Toni Porter and Gretchen Kirby

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 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

Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2006

Karen E. Cunnyngham, Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

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

Deborah Peikes, Janice Genevro, Sarah Scholle and Phyllis Torda

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

AB Demonstration: Recruitment, Process, and Impact Findings After One Year

David Wittenburg

School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study Volume 3: School Meal Costs and Revenues (Summary)

Christopher W. Logan, Vinh Tran, Maria Boyle, Ayesha Enver, Matthew Zeidenberg and Michele Mendelson

Trends in FSP Participation Rates: Focus on September 1997

Laura Castner and Scott Cody

Promoting Children's Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries: Testing Change Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

J. Lawrence Aber, Carly Tubbs, Catalina Torrente and Peter F. Halpin

Elementary Math Programs in the Pittsburgh Public Schools: A Comparison of Everyday Math and Harcourt Math

Brian Gill, Catherine Nelson, Julia Kaufman and Kevin Booker

Characteristics of High-Impact Investigator-Initiated Research: Results from Selected Case Studies

Tim Lake, Tara Krissik, Kate Stewart and Marsha Gold

Do Laws Requiring Parental Involvement to Obtain an Abortion Help Reduce STIs Among Minors?

Silvie Colman, Ted Joyce and Thomas Dee

AAPOR Report on Big Data

Task Force Members Include: Lilli Japec, Frauke Kreuter, Marcus Berg, Paul Biemer, Paul Decker, Cliff Lampe, Julia Lane, Cathy O'Neil and Abe Usher

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

Disease Management Technologies: User Needs Can Guide Decision Making

Rachel Shapiro and Lorenzo Moreno

Understanding the Employment Outcomes of Trainees in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program Under the 2002 Amendments

Jillian Berk

The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project: How Early Head Start Programs Are Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers

Diane Paulsell, Debra Mekos, Patricia Del Grosso, Patti Banghart and Renée Nogales

Evaluation of the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) in the Chicago Public Schools: Study Design Report

Steven Glazerman, Allison McKie, Nancy Carey and Dominic Harris

Biased Selection in the Tefra HMO/CMP Program

Jerrold W. Hill and Randall S. Brown

Current and Future Sources of Health Insurance Coverage for Alabama Residents

Deborah Chollet, Allison Barrett and Thomas Bell

The Child SSI Program and the Changing Safety Net

David Wittenburg, John Tambornino, Elizabeth Brown, Gretchen Rowe, Mason DeCamillis and Gilbert Crouse

Pneumonia, 1992-2002: Appendix B, Detailed Tables, Appendix C, ICD9 Codes for Pneumonia Cohorts

Robert Schmitz