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Strategies for Using Vital Records to Measure Quality of Care in Medicaid and CHIP Programs: Keith Kranker, So O'Neil, Vanessa Oddo, Miriam Drapkin and Margo Rosenbach
Changes in Financial Aid and Student Enrollment at Historically Black Colleges and Universities After the Tightening of PLUS Credit Standards: Matthew Johnson, Julie Bruch and Brian Gill
What the Evidence Says: Intimate Partner Violence and Home Visiting: Katie Niland, Marykate Zukiewicz and Emily Sama-Miller
Leading the Change: A Comparison of the Principal Supervisor Role in Principal Supervisor Initiative Districts and Other Urban Districts: Ellen B. Goldring, Laura K. Rogers and Melissa A. Clark
Does Medicare HMO Enrollment Cause Adverse Selection in Medigap?: Deborah Chollet and Adele Kirk
Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Illinois KidCare Program: Amy Westpfahl Lutzky and Heidi Kapustka
The Evaluation of Teacher Preparation Models: Design Report: Paul Decker, John Deke, Amy Johnson, Daniel Mayer, John Mullens and Peter Schochet
Work-Related Overpayments Among Disability Beneficiaries: Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore
Improving the Connectedness of Long-Term Care Providers: Cross Site Report: Beth Stevens, Bridget Lavin and Valerie Cheh
Case Studies of Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants: Final Report: Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Jennifer O'Day, Beatrice Birman, Steven Hurlburt, Michelle Nayfack, Clare Halloran, Andrea Boyle, Seth Brown, Diana Mercado-Garcia, Rose Goff, Linda Rosenberg and Lara Hulsey
The Right Help for the Right Workers at the Right Time Can Keep Them on the Job: Steve Bruns
Statistical Power for Regression Discontinuity Designs in Education: Empirical Estimates of Design Effects Relative to Randomized Controlled Trials: John Deke and Lisa Dragoset
Evaluation of the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) in the Chicago Public Schools: Study Design Report: Steven Glazerman, Allison McKie, Nancy Carey and Dominic Harris
Options for Building Coaching Practices into TANF Programs: A Comparison of Five Models: Michelle Derr and Kristen Joyce
Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger (EDECH): The Virginia 365 Project: Charlotte Cabili, Pia Caronongan, Philip Gleason, Ronette Briefel, Nicholas Redel, Sarah Forrestal, Gregory Chojnacki and Breanna Wakar
How Medicaid Agencies Administer Mental Health Services: Results from a 50-State Survey: James Verdier and Allison Barrett
Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE) Evaluation: Interim Services and Impact Report (Executive Summary): Arif Mamun, Ankita Patnaik, Michael Levere, Gina Livermore, Todd Honeycutt, Jacqueline Kauff, Karen Katz, AnnaMaria McCutcheon, Joseph Mastrianni and Brittney Gionfriddo
Cash and Counseling: An Innovative Model for Consumer Choice: Randall S. Brown
How Retailers Responded to Taxes on Sweetened Beverages: A Tale of Two Cities: Jeanette Holdbrook, Dana Petersen, David Jones and David Frisvold
Consequences of Inaccurate Medicaid Administrative Data on Survey Response Rates and Medicaid Health Policy Issues: Anne Ciemnecki, Karen CyBulski and Judith Wooldridge
Who Will Enroll in Medicaid in 2014?: Lessons from Section 1115 Medicaid Waivers: Candace Natoli, Valerie Cheh and Shinu Verghese
Promoting Family Engagement, Stability, and Well-Being Through Youth-Enrichment Grants: Jonathan McCay and Lily Roberts
Technical Appendix: Considerations for Measuring T/TA Performance: Jesse Chandler
Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Design Plan Supplement: Interim Outcomes Evaluation: Jenna Libersky, Su Liu, Laura Ruttner, Anna Collins, Jonathan Geller and Carol Irvin
The Final Evaluation Report on the National Home Health Prospective Payment Demonstration: Agencies Reduce Visits While Preserving Quality: Valerie Cheh
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
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
Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: Implementation Findings on the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs: Ronald D'Amico, Kate Dunham, Verenice Chavoya-Perez, Deborah Kogan, Melissa Mack, Marian Negoita, Anne Paprocki, Sheena McConnell and Linda Rosenberg
Improving the Rigor of Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluations: Lessons for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Researchers: Brian Goesling and Joanne Lee
Strategies for Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten: Toolkit for Districts, Schools, and Early Childhood Providers: Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz
Measuring Physical Environments of Parks and Playgrounds: EAPRS Instrument Development and Inter-Rater Reliability: Brian E. Saelens, Lawrence D. Frank, Christopher Auffrey, Robert C. Whitaker, Hillary L. Burdette and Natalie Colabianchi
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
Impacts of Waiting Periods for Home- and Community-Based Services on Consumers and Medicaid Long-Term Care Costs in Iowa: Greg Peterson, Randy Brown, Allison Barrett, Beny Wu and Christal Stone Valenzano
Reaching Those in Need: State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2011: Karen E. Cunnyngham
Expectations of Sustainability: What Do CKF Grantees and State Officials Predict Will Happen Once RWJF Funding Ends?: Beth Stevens and Sheila D. Hoag
Effects of Water Quality, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutritional Interventions on Child Development in Rural Kenya (WASH Benefits Kenya): A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial: Christine P. Stewart, Patricia Kariger, Lia Fernald, Amy J. Pickering, Charles D. Arnold, Benjamin F. Arnold, Alan E. Hubbard, Holly N. Dentz, Audrie Lin, Theodora J. Meerkerk, Erin Milner, Jenna Swarthout, John M. Colford, Jr. and Clair Null
Mortality Risk and Human Capital Investment: The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Jane G. Fortson
What is Moral Sanctity? Sanctity in the Moral Worldviews of U.S. Political Liberals: Allison DiBianca Fasoli, Alexandra Saunders and Irene Andrade
Financial Considerations: Rate Setting for Medicaid Managed Long Term Services and Supports (MLTSS) in Integrated Care Programs: Jenna Libersky and James Verdier
Pneumonia, 1992-2002: Appendix B, Detailed Tables, Appendix C, ICD9 Codes for Pneumonia Cohorts: Robert Schmitz
Impacts of the 9th SOW QIO Program Care Transitions Theme on Condition-Specific Readmission Rates: Jelena Zurovac, Arnold Chen, Sue Felt-Lisk and Myles Maxfield
After Two Years, Three Elementary Math Curricula Outperform a Fourth (In Focus Brief): Roberto Agodini, Barbara Harris, Neil Seftor, Janine Remillard and Melissa Thomas
Disease Management Technologies: User Needs Can Guide Decision Making: Rachel Shapiro and Lorenzo Moreno
The SSDI Trust Fund: New Solutions to an Old Problem: David Stapleton and David Wittenburg
Meals Offered in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: John Burghardt, Anne Gordon and Thomas Fraker
Nutritional Quality of the Diets of US Public School Children and the Role of the School Meal Programs: Melissa A. Clark and Mary Kay Fox
Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2014: Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham
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
Current and Future Sources of Health Insurance Coverage for Alabama Residents: Deborah Chollet, Allison Barrett and Thomas Bell
Proposed Methods for Developing and Testing Risk- and Reliability-Adjustment Models for HCBS Composite Measures: Alex Bohl, Mariel Finucane, Jessica Ross, Sheng Wang and Dejene Ayele
Leading the Way: Characteristics and Early Experiences of Selected Early Head Start Programs. Volume I: Cross-Site Perspectives: Ellen Eliason Kisker, John M. Love, Helen Raikes, Kimberly Boller, Diane Paulsell, Linda Rosenberg, Kathleen Coolahan and Lisa J. Berlin
Further Progress, Persistent Constraints: Findings from a Second Survey of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Irma Perez-Johnson, Alan Hershey and Jeanne Bellotti
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
The Atlanta Public Schools Turnaround Strategy After One Year: High Impact Tutoring and the Purpose Built Schools Partnership: Kristin Hallgren, Naihobe Gonzalez, Jane Choi, Kevin Kelly, Annie Li, Lindsay Ochoa, Breanna Wakar and Brian Gill
Thinking Through Evaluation Design Options: Barbara Devaney and Peter Rossi
Working with Out-of-School Youth from Minority Backgrounds: What CILs Offer and What They Value: Stacie Feldman, Purvi Sevak and Mira Wang
Strengthening Partnerships Between Fatherhood and Human Services Programs to Improve Father Engagement: Armando YaÃ±ez and Rebekah Selekman
Addressing the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity Through School-Based Interventions: What Has Been Done and Where Do We Go from Here?: Karen E. Peterson and Mary Kay Fox
Child Participation in Supplemental Security Income: Cross- and Within-State Determinants of Caseload Growth: Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak
The Transitional Employment Training Demonstration: Analysis of Program Impacts: Craig Thornton and Paul Decker
A Vision for Research on Universal Preschool: Background, Purpose, and Goals of the Los Angeles Universal Preschool Program and Its Evaluation: Katie Fallin, Michael L. LÃ³pez, Patricia Lozano, Christine Ong and Jessica Brauner
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
COVID-19 Risk in Rural North Carolina: Aparna Keshaviah, Cindy Hu and Marisa Henry
Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: 2012: Ann M. Collins, Ronette Briefel, Jacob Alex Klerman, Gretchen Rowe, Anne Wolf, Christopher W. Logan, Anne Gordon, Carrie Wolfson, Ayesha Enver, Cheryl Owens, Charlotte Cabili and Stephen Bell
Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: POD BOND Comparison Report: Michael Levere, David Mann and David Wittenburg
How Do Parents Evaluate and Select Schools? Evidence From a Survey Experiment: Shira Haderlein
Measuring Teacher Effectiveness in Memphis: Eric Isenberg
A Framework for Selecting Employment Interventions to Benefit Youth: Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere
Overview of the Independent Evaluation of CPC+: Various Authors
Medicare Advantage 2015 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update: Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman and Marsha Gold
The Role of Psychiatric Hospitals in the Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines: Jonathan Brown and Nadia Bell
The Pregnancy Assistance Fund: Launching Programs to Support Expectant and Parenting Youth: Ann E. Person, Elizabeth Clary, Susan Zief, Katie Adamek, Valerie Caplan and Julie Worthington
Medicaid Analytic Extract Provider Characteristics (MAXPC) Evaluation Report, 2010: Deo Bencio
Coordinating Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Early Experiences of 15 Demonstration Programs, Their Patients, and Providers (Appendix A): Randall Brown, Jennifer Schore, Nancy Archibald, Arnold Chen, Deborah Peikes, Karen Sautter, Sherry Aliotta and Todd Ensor
AB Demonstration: Recruitment, Process, and Impact Findings After One Year: David Wittenburg
Financial Challenges in New Integrated Care Programs: Deconstructing Rate-Setting Issues in Search of Solutions: James Verdier
Prevalence of Unclaimed Prescriptions at Military Pharmacies: Dominick Esposito, Eric Schone, Thomas Williams, Su Liu, Karen CyBulski, Rita Stapulonis and Nancy Clusen
Beginning Head Start: Children, Families and Programs in Fall 2006: Louisa Tarullo, Jerry West, Nikki Aikens and Lara Hulsey
Creating Paths to Father Involvement: Lessons from Early Head Start: Andrew Burwick and Jeanne Bellotti
Comparative Case Study Analysis of Five Clinical Practice Guidelines in Anesthesiology: Ruchir Karmali, Noa Sager and Anna Christensen
Medicare Advantage in Rural Areas: Experience Under the MMA: Marsha Gold
Reimagining Accountability in K-12 Education: Brian P. Gill, Jennifer S. Lerner and Paul Meosky
Evaluating Early Childhood Assessments: A Differential Analysis: Samuel J and Meisels Sally Atkins-Burnett
Longâ€ Run Labor Market Effects of the Job Corps Program: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Experiment: Peter Z. Schochet
Seeding Entrepreneurship Across Campus: Early Implementation Experiences of the Kauffman Campuses Initiative: Lara Hulsey, Linda Rosenberg and Benita Kim
Using Advanced Analytics to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes for Children and Families: Elizabeth Weigensberg
The Labor Market Consequences of Receiving Disability Benefits During Childhood: Michael Levere
Program Snapshot: Bridges from School to Work: Jody Schimmel Hyde and Katie Bodenlos
Evaluating National Ongoing Programs: Implementing the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation: Annalisa Mastri, Sheena McConnell, Linda Rosenberg, Peter Schochet, Dana Rotz, Andrew Clarkwest, Ken Fortson, AnnaMaria McCutcheon, Katie Bodenlos, Jessica Ziegler and Paul Burkander
Paying More Wisely: Effects of Payment Reforms on Evidence-Based Clinical Decision-Making: Timothy K. Lake, Eugene C. Rich, Christal Stone Valenzano and Myles M. Maxfield
Improving the Income Allocation Procedures in MATH: Pat Doyle and Carole Trippe
Random Assignment in Program Evaluation and Intervention Research: Questions and Answers: David Myers and Mark Dynarski
Characteristics of High-Impact Investigator-Initiated Research: Results from Selected Case Studies: Tim Lake, Tara Krissik, Kate Stewart and Marsha Gold
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
Unexpected Arrivals: The Spillover Effects of Mid-Year Entry on Stable Student Achievement in New York City: Emilyn Ruble Whitesell, Leanna Stiefel and Amy Schwartz
Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2005-2007 for All Eligible People and the Working Poor: Karen E. Cunnyngham, Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm
Usage of Policies and Practices Promoted by Race to the Top: Lisa Dragoset, Susanne James-Burdumy, Kristin Hallgren, Irma Perez-Johnson, Mariesa Herrmann, Christina Tuttle, Megan Hague Angus, Rebecca Herman, Matthew Murray, Corutney Tanenbaum and Cheryl Graczewski
Early Home Learning Environment Predicts Childrenâ€™s 5th Grade Academic Skills: Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Rufan Luo, Karen E. McFadden, Eileen T. Bandel and Claire Vallotton
Proposed Criteria for Selecting the WIC Food Packages: A Preliminary Report of the Committee to Review the WIC Food Packages: Prepared by the Food Nutrition Board
Do Laws Requiring Parental Involvement to Obtain an Abortion Help Reduce STIs Among Minors?: Silvie Colman, Ted Joyce and Thomas Dee

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