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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

Toolkit for Building a Virtual Learning Cohort

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

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

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA): Summary of Stakeholder Input on Research Priorities

Kate Dunham, Jonah Deutsch, Armando Yañez and Pamela Holcomb

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

Debra Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Jeffrey Ballou

Determining Performance Benchmarks for a Medicaid Value-Based Payment

So O'Neil and Ella Douglas-Durham

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

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

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

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

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

Data Visualization and Infographics (In Focus)

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

Philip Gleason, Tania Tasse, Kenneth Jackson and Patricia Nemeth

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 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

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

QRS Profile: Miami-Dade Quality Counts

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

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

Electronic Health Records and Support for Primary Care Teamwork

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

Medicaid Analytic eXtract 2010 Chartbook

Rosemary Borck, Laura Ruttner, Vivian Byrd and Karina Wagnerman

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

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

Eric Isenberg and Elias Walsh

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

Paul Decker

Spotlight on Georgia

Grace Anglin and Adam Swinburn

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

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

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Client Contact Log

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Early Lessons from the Building Strong Families Project

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

Physician Perspectives on Medical Home Recognition for Practice Transformation for Children

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

Children's Progress During the 2010-2011 LAUP Year

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

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

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

Carrie Au-Yeung and John Czajka

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

Robert B. Olsen and Paul T. Decker

Clinical Quality Measurement (Fact Sheet)

Cindy Cullen and Sam Simon

Advocacy Capacity Assessment Instrument

Margaret Gerteis, Julia Coffman, Jung Kim and Krisztina Marton

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

Melissa A. Clark and Barbara Devaney

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

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

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

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

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

Angela Merrill

The Three E's: Enrollment, Employment, and Earnings in the Medicaid Buy-In Program, 2006

Gilbert Gimm, Sarah R. Davis, Kristin L. Andrews, Henry T. Ireys and Su Liu

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

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

Claudia H. Williams and Marsha Gold

Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care

Diane Paulsell, Toni Porter and Gretchen Kirby

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

Standards for Regression Discontinuity Designs

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

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

Can Administrative Records Be Used to Reduce Nonresponse Bias?

John L. Czajka

ILAB Synthesis Review

Josh Meuth Alldredge and Sarah Humpage Liuzzi

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

Henry T. Ireys, Craig Thornton and Hunter McKay

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

Jesse Chandler, Jacob Hartog, Erin Lipman and Jonathan Gellar

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

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

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

Response Rates in Random Digit Dialing (RDD) Telephone Surveys

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

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

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

Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt

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

Keith Kranker

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

Subuhi Asheer, Ellen Kisker and Betsy Keating

Trends in Medical Conditions and Functioning in the U.S. Population, 1997-2017

Anna Hill and Purvi Sevak

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

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

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

LaDonna Pavetti, Debra Strong and Ruchika Bajaj

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

Paolo Abarcar

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

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

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

Professional Development Tools to Improve the Quality of Infant and Toddler Care: A Review of the Literature (Snapshot)

Nikki Aikens, Lauren Akers and Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

Aparna Keshaviah and Editor

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

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

Kara Contreary, Anna Collins and Eugene C. Rich

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

Evaluation of the Local Initiative Rewarding Results Collaborative Demonstrations

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Gilbert Gimm and Stephanie Peterson

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

John L. Czajka

Design of the CMS Medical Home Demonstration

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

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

Todd Honeycutt and Lorenzo Moreno

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

SMI Innovations Project in Pennsylvania: Final Evaluation Report

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

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

Maintenance of Certification Status and Performance on a Set of Process Measures

Bradley Gray, Jonathan Vandergrift, Bruce Landon, James Reschovsky and Rebecca Lipner

Health Professionals and Patients in California: Speaking the Same Language

Diane Rittenhouse, Alicia Fernandez, Alexandra Ament and Janet Coffman

Enticing Dually Eligible Beneficiaries to Enroll in Integrated Care Plans

Debra J. Lipson and Erin Weir Lakhmani

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

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

Mariesa Herrmann and Christine Ross

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

Pre-Design Study for the Evaluation of Recovery Act Green Jobs, Health Care, and Other High Growth Competitive Grants

Karen Needels and Annalisa Mastri

The Role of Goal Setting in Integrated Service Delivery

Mary Anne Anderson, Lindsay Ochoa, Margaret Sullivan and Nan Maxwell

Money Follows the Person: Change in Participant Experience During the First Year of Community Living

Samuel E. Simon and Matthew R. Hodges

Wash For Life: Stage 2 Grantee Profiles

Clair Null, Jeremy Paley, Jamie McCasland, Jeremy Brecher-Haimson and Christina Phelps

Comparative Case Study Analysis of Five Clinical Practice Guidelines in Anesthesiology

Ruchir Karmali, Noa Sager and Anna Christensen

Practice Characteristics of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners and Physicians

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

Who Will Enroll in Medicaid in 2014?: Lessons from Section 1115 Medicaid Waivers

Candace Natoli, Valerie Cheh and Shinu Verghese

A Guide to Using the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool

Lee-Lee Ellis, Rachel Kogan and Laura Hanson

Evidence Snapshot: Financial Incentives

Jillian Stein and Dana Rotz

Reopening Schools Safely: New Evidence on Mitigating COVID-19 Spread

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

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

The Right Help for the Right Workers at the Right Time Can Keep Them on the Job

Steve Bruns

The Labor Market Consequences of Receiving Disability Benefits During Childhood

Michael Levere

The Characteristics and Motivations of Participants in the Self-Employment Training Demonstration

Caroline Massad Francis, Irma Perez-Johnson, Samia Amin and Mary Anne Anderson

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2013 (Summary)

Kelsey Farson Gray

Patient Dismissal by Primary Care Practices (Journal Article)

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

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

Tim Lake, Tara Krissik, Kate Stewart and Marsha Gold