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Food Stamp Program Elderly Nutrition Demonstrations: Interim Report on Elderly Participation Patterns

Scott Cody

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

Holly Matulewicz, Karen Katz, Todd Honeycutt, Jacqueline Kauff, Joseph Mastrianni, Adele Rizzuto and Claire Smither Wulsin

EpiCore: Harnessing a Network of Health Professionals for Verification of Public Health Events

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Brenna Rabel

A Study of Work Participation and Full Engagement Strategies

Jacqueline Kauff, Michelle K. Derr and LaDonna Pavetti

2010 National and State Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption

Jeffrey J. Sacks, Katherine R. Gonzales, Ellen E. Bouchery, Laura E. Tomedi and Robert D. Brewer

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold, Cheryl Young and Beth Stevens

Draft Medicaid Access Tool

Bridget Bernick

The Final Evaluation Report on the National Home Health Prospective Payment Demonstration: Agencies Reduce Visits While Preserving Quality

Valerie Cheh

Medicare Advantage 2015 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update

Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman and Marsha Gold

Thinking Through Evaluation Design Options

Barbara Devaney and Peter Rossi

2014 Facts and Findings

Mathematica Policy Research

Patterns of Older Americans' Health Care Utilization Over Time

Richard J. Manski, John F. Moeller, Haiyan Chen, Jody Schimmel, Patricia A. St. Clair and John Pepper

Improving the School Attendance of New Jersey's Youngest Learners: Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades: How to Choose and Implement Proven Strategies to Improve Attendance

Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz

Psychometric Analysis of Child Outcome Measures with American Indian and Alaska Native Preschoolers: Initial Evidence from AI/AN FACES 2015

Lizabeth Malone, Sara Bernstein, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Yange Xue

You've Got Error

Ronald R. Palanca

A Research Agenda for Home-Based Child Care

Patricia Del Grosso, Juliet Bromer, Toni Porter, Christopher Jones, Ann Li, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Nikki Aikens

Monthly Estimates of the Antipoverty Effectiveness of Selected Cash and In-Kind Programs

Susan Holland and Pat Doyle

A Framework for Selecting Employment Interventions to Benefit Youth

Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere

Disparities in the Healthfulness of School Food Environments and the Nutritional Quality of School Lunches

Sarah Bardin, Liana Washburn and Elizabeth Gearan

Analyzing the Association between Student Weight Status and School Meal Participation: Evidence from the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study

Sarah Bardin and Alice Ann Gola

After Two Years, Three Elementary Math Curricula Outperform a Fourth (In Focus Brief)

Roberto Agodini, Barbara Harris, Neil Seftor, Janine Remillard and Melissa Thomas

Financial Challenges in New Integrated Care Programs: Deconstructing Rate-Setting Issues in Search of Solutions

James Verdier

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

Beginning Head Start: Children, Families and Programs in Fall 2006

Louisa Tarullo, Jerry West, Nikki Aikens and Lara Hulsey

Supporting Grant Recipients Through Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Efforts: Lessons from the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) CQI Pilot

Annie Buonaspina, Samantha Zelenack and Brittany Tabora

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

Experiences of Workers Hired Under Cash and Counseling: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey

Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Carlson

Early Education Experiences: Regional Differences in Kindergartners' Early Education Experiences

Emily Rosenthal, Amy Rathbun and Jerry West

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

Financial Considerations: Rate Setting for Medicaid Managed Long Term Services and Supports (MLTSS) in Integrated Care Programs

Jenna Libersky and James Verdier

Wash For Life: Stage 2 Grantee Profiles

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

Biased Selection in the Tefra HMO/CMP Program

Jerrold W. Hill and Randall S. Brown

Marcos Institucionales Para la Evaluación de Políticas Públicas (Presentation)

Lorenzo Moreno

Simulating Proposed Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Countable Resources and Categorical Eligibility

Karen Cunnyngham

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

Kauffman Firm Survey: Results from the Baseline and First Follow-Up Surveys

Janice Ballou, Tom Barton, David DesRoches, Frank Potter, E.J. Reedy, Alicia Robb, Scott Shane and Zhanyun Zhao

Promoting Family Engagement, Stability, and Well-Being Through Youth-Enrichment Grants

Jonathan McCay and Lily Roberts

The Benefits and Costs of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program Under the 2002 Amendments

Sarah Dolfin and Peter Z. Schochet

Collective Action in Games as in Life: Experimental Evidence from Canal Cleaning in Haiti

Abbie Turiansky

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness in Memphis

Eric Isenberg

Evidence Snapshot: Financial Incentives

Jillian Stein and Dana Rotz

State of Georgia. Improving Medicaid Participation for Pregnant Women and Children: Strategies and Challenges

Kathleen A. Maloy

Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables

Stacy Berg Dale and Alan Krueger

Cash and Counseling: An Innovative Model for Consumer Choice

Randall S. Brown

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

Food Consumption Patterns of Young Preschoolers: Are They Starting Off on the Right Path?

Mary Kay Fox, Elizabeth Condon, Ronette R. Briefel, Kathleen C. Reidy and Denise M. Deming

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

Lee-Lee Ellis, Rachel Kogan and Laura Hanson

The Role of Goal Setting in Integrated Service Delivery

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

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 7 Transcript: Urban Institute)

Demetra Nightingale, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends: Trends in Health Expenditures

Deborah Chollet

The Evaluation of Teacher Preparation Models: Design Report

Paul Decker, John Deke, Amy Johnson, Daniel Mayer, John Mullens and Peter Schochet

Using Advanced Analytics to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes for Children and Families

Elizabeth Weigensberg

The SSDI Trust Fund: New Solutions to an Old Problem

David Stapleton and David Wittenburg

Selecting and Testing Measures of Self-Regulation Skills Among Low-Income Populations

Tim Kautz and Quinn Moore

Improving Access to Early Care and Education: An Equity-Focused Policy Research Agenda

Jessica F. Harding and Diane Paulsell

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: POD BOND Comparison Report

Michael Levere, David Mann and David Wittenburg

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

Jillian Berk

Technical Appendix: Considerations for Measuring T/TA Performance

Jesse Chandler

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Two Years

Hanley Chiang, Alison Wellington, Kristin Hallgren, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann, Steven Glazerman and Jill Constantine

Reimagining Accountability in K-12 Education

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

Comparative Case Study Analysis of Five Clinical Practice Guidelines in Anesthesiology

Ruchir Karmali, Noa Sager and Anna Christensen

Districts and Data: Developing Capacity for Effective Data Use

Cassie Pickens Jewell, Libby Makowsky and Kristin Hallgren

Adapting Evaluations of Alternative Payment Models to a Changing Environment

Thomas W. Grannemann and Randall S. Brown

The Evaluation of the Alabama Food Stamp Cash-Out Demonstration Vol. 1: Recipient Impacts

Thomas M. Fraker, Alberto Martini, James C. Ohls, Michael Ponza and Elizabeth A. Quinn

Money Follows the Person 2013 Annual Evaluation Report Executive Summary

Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Wilfredo Lim, Rebecca SweetlLester and Victoria Peebles

Study of Rhode Island's Uninsured: Current Costs and Future Opportunities

Deborah Chollet, Jeffrey Ballou, Allison Barrett and Thomas Bell

A Life Lesson in Civics: How Democracy Prep Charter Schools Boost Student Voting

Brian P. Gill, Charles Tilley, Emilyn Whitesell, Mariel Finucane, Liz Potamites and Sean Corcoran

The Struggle to Sustain Employment: The Effectiveness of the Postemployment Services Demonstration

Anu Rangarajan and Tim Novak

The Business Case for Pediatric Asthma Quality Improvement in Low-Income Populations: Examining a Provider-Based Pay-for-Reporting Intervention

Kristin L. Reiter, Kristin Andrews Lemos, Charlotte E. Williams, Dominick Esposito and Sandra B. Greene

A Study of Federal Spending on Diabetes: An Opportunity for Federal Leadership in Diabetes

Marsha Gold and Ronette Briefel

Reaching Those in Need: State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2011

Karen E. Cunnyngham

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

Samuel E. Simon and Matthew R. Hodges

Does Medicare HMO Enrollment Cause Adverse Selection in Medigap?

Deborah Chollet and Adele Kirk

Expectations of Sustainability: What Do CKF Grantees and State Officials Predict Will Happen Once RWJF Funding Ends?

Beth Stevens and Sheila D. Hoag

Effective Evaluation of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Early Care and Education and School-Age Care

Gail Zellman, Richard Brandon, Kimberly Boller and J. Lee Kreader

Operating a Vocational Training Program in a Juvenile Correctional Facility: A Case Study

Sukey Leshnick and Sarah Thomason

PREP Performance Indicators: Youth Participants’ Characteristics and Outcomes

Lara Hulsey, Susan Zief and Lauren Murphy

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

Supporting Parents with Child Care During Training

Nickie Fung, Jessica Harding, Elizabeth Brown, Kara Conroy, Jeanette Holdbrook, Grace Roemer and Max Rankin

Teacher Turnover and Access to Effective Teachers in the School District of Philadelphia, Study Snapshot

Erin Dillon and Steven Malick

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

Karen Needels and Annalisa Mastri

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

Vitamin B-12 Concentrations in Breast Milk Are Low and Are Not Associated with Reported Household Hunger, Recent Animal-Source Food, or Vitamin B-12 Intake in Women in Rural Kenya

Anne M. Williams, Caroline J. Chantry, Sera L. Young, Beryl S. Achando, Lindsay H. Allen, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford, Jr., Holly N. Dentz, Daniela Hampel, Marion C. Kiprotich, Audrie Lin, Clair A. Null, Geoffrey M. Nyambane, Setti Shahab-Ferdows and Christine P. Stewart

Statistical Power for Regression Discontinuity Designs in Education: Empirical Estimates of Design Effects Relative to Randomized Controlled Trials

John Deke and Lisa Dragoset

Bridging the Information Gap between Citizens and Local Governments: Evidence from a Civic Participation Strengthening Program in Rwanda

Ali E. Protik, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Jacqueline Berman and Matt Sloan

Monitoring Local Safety-Net Providers: Do They Have Adequate Capacity?

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Megan McHugh. Embry Howell

Touchpoints for Addressing Substance Use Issues in Home Visiting: Executive Summary of Phase 1 Final Report

Mynti Hossain, Lauren Akers, Patricia Del Grosso, Marisa Shenk, Michael Cavanaugh and Melissa Azur

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

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

Bridging the Gap: A Comparative Assessment of Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Practices with Transition-Age Youth

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephaine McLeod

Massachusetts Homeless Triage Assessment

James Mabli and Hande Inanc

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

Seeding Entrepreneurship Across Campus: Early Implementation Experiences of the Kauffman Campuses Initiative

Lara Hulsey, Linda Rosenberg and Benita Kim

Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Judith Wooldridge, Christopher Trenholm and Angela Gerolamo

Differences in Enrollee Outcomes Among Medicaid Managed Care Organizations

Lorenzo Moreno and Sheila Hoag

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

Susan Mitchell

W2 Converting to Wisconsin Works: Where Did Families Go When AFDC Ended in Milwaukee?

Rebecca Swartz, Jacqueline Kauff, Lucia Nixon, Tom Fraker, Jay Hein and Susan Mitchell

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

How Medicaid Agencies Administer Mental Health Services: Results from a 50-State Survey

James Verdier and Allison Barrett

Options for Building Coaching Practices into TANF Programs: A Comparison of Five Models

Michelle Derr and Kristen Joyce