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Implications of Health Homes for NCQA Health Plan Accreditation

Center for Health Care Strategies and Mathematica Policy Research

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

Allison Zippay and Anu Rangarajan

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

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

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

Nan Maxwell and Erin Dillon

Determining Performance Benchmarks for a Medicaid Value-Based Payment

So O'Neil and Ella Douglas-Durham

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Client Contact Log

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

Data Visualization and Infographics (In Focus)

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

Alexandra Resch and Jonah Deutsch

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

John L. Czajka

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

State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Adults with Mental Illness

Henry Ireys, Lori Achman and Ama Takyi

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

Deborah Chollet, Su Liu and Laurie Felland

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

The Horizons Study: Third Follow-UP Questionnaire

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

Claudia H. Williams and Marsha Gold

SMI Innovations Project in Pennsylvania: Final Evaluation Report

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

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

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

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

Angela Merrill and So Sasigant Limpa-Amara

Reliability of the Deployment Resiliency Assessment

Samuel E. Simon, Kate Stewart, Michelle Kloc, Thomas V. Williams and Margaret C. Wilmoth

The Effect of School Report Card Design on Usability, Understanding, and Satisfaction

Jesse Chandler, Jacob Hartog, Erin Lipman and Jonathan Gellar

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

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

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

Donald Rose, Jean-Pierre Habicht and Barbara Devaney

Toolkit for Building a Virtual Learning Cohort

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

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

Sharing Study Data: A Guide for Education Researchers

Ruth Neild, Danielle Robinson and Jacqueline Agufa

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

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

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

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

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

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

Heather Hill, Gretchen Kirby and Thomas Fraker

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

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

Interview Interruption and Responses to Questions About Domestic Violence in India

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

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

Debra Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Jeffrey Ballou

An Impact that Lasts: KIPP Middle Schools Boost College Enrollment

Thomas Coen, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Philip Gleason

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

Standards for Regression Discontinuity Designs

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

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

Merrile Sing and Steven Hill

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

Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care

Diane Paulsell, Toni Porter and Gretchen Kirby

Considerations for Reopening Pennsylvania Schools

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

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

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

ILAB Synthesis Review

Josh Meuth Alldredge and Sarah Humpage Liuzzi

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

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

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

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

Keith Kranker

Large Numbers of Estimates for Small Areas

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

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

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

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

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

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

Physician Perspectives on Medical Home Recognition for Practice Transformation for Children

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

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

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

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

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

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

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

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

Claudia H. Williams and Marsha Gold

A Focused Look at Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants That Have Percentages of English Language Learner Students

Laura Golden, Barbara Harris, Diana Mercado-Garcia, Andrea Boyle, Kerstin Carlson Le Floch and Jennifer O'Day

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

Lori Achman and Deborah Chollet

Design of the CMS Medical Home Demonstration

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

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

Special Report: The Potential of Wastewater Testing for Public Health and Safety

Aparna Keshaviah and Editor

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

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

Gina Livermore and Sarah Prenovitz

Barriers to Evidence-Based Physician Decision-Making at the Point of Care: A Narrative Literature Review

Kara Contreary, Anna Collins and Eugene C. Rich

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

Randall Brown, Judith Wooldridge, Sheila Hoag and Lorenzo Moreno

Vermont's Progressive Employment Program: A Preliminary Impact Analysis

David R. Mann, David C. Stapleton and Alice Porter

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

Medical Homes: Will They Improve Primary Care?

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

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

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

Gregory Peterson and David J. Magid

Medicare Advantage in 2008

Marsha Gold

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

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

Improving the Rigor of Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluations: Lessons for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Researchers

Brian Goesling and Joanne Lee

Testing the Replicability of a Successful Care Management Program: Results from a Randomized Trial and Likely Explanations for Why Impacts Did Not Replicate

G. Greg Peterson, Jelena Zurovac, Randall S. Brown, Kenneth D. Coburn, Patricia A. Markovich, Sherry A. Marcantonio, William D. Clark, Anne Mutti and Cara Stepanczuk

The Transitional Employment Training Demonstration: Analysis of Program Impacts

Craig Thornton and Paul Decker

Aligning Federal Performance Indicators Across Programs Promoting Self-Sufficiency: Local Perspectives

Elizabeth Brown, Kara Conroy and Gretchen G. Kirby

National Beneficiary Survey Round 1: Public Use File Codebook

Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones

Random Assignment in Program Evaluation and Intervention Research: Questions and Answers

David Myers and Mark Dynarski

State Partnership Initiative: Synthesis of Impact Estimates Generated by the State Projects' Evaluations

Deborah Peikes and Ankur Sarin

Changing Circumstances: Experiences of Child SSI Recipients Before and After Their Age-18 Redetermination for Adult Benefits (Journal Article)

Jeffrey Hemmeter, Jacqueline Kauff and David Wittenburg

Building Youth Life Skills: Lessons Learned on How to Design, Implement, Assess, and Scale Successful Programming

Swetha Sridharan, Poonam Ravindranath, Emma Pottinger and Clemencia Cosentino

Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees: 2005-2007

David K. Baugh and Shinu Verghese

Workforce Development for Comparative Effectiveness Research: Training Programs Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Kristin L. Geonnotti, Eugene C. Rich and Dominick Esposito

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

Peter Z. Schochet and John Deke

Resurrecting Free Play in Young Children: Looking Beyond Fitness and Fatness to Attention, Affiliation, and Affect

Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker

Improving the Connectedness of Long-Term Care Providers: Cross Site Report

Beth Stevens, Bridget Lavin and Valerie Cheh

Trends in FSP Participation Rates: Focus on September 1997

Laura Castner and Scott Cody

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (NSSATS): 2004, Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Food Stamp Participants' Access to Food Retailers

James C. Ohls, Michael Ponza, Lorenzo Moreno, Amy Zambrowski and Rhoda Cohen