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

Valerie Cheh

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

Case Study of North Carolina: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Christopher Trenholm, Embry Howell and Brigette Courtot

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

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

Elizabeth Weigensberg

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

Kelsey Farson Gray

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

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

What the Evidence Says: Intimate Partner Violence and Home Visiting

Katie Niland, Marykate Zukiewicz and Emily Sama-Miller

A Guide to Disability Statistics from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Richard Burkhauser, Robert R. Weathers, Ii and Mathis Schroeder

Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS), October 1, 1997 Questionnaire

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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

The Early Experience of the Health Quality Partners Case Management Program

Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore

Focusing on the Boys: The Longer-Term Impacts of Wise Guys in Davenport, Iowa

Reginald D. Covington, Robert G. Wood and Brian Goesling

Medicare Advantage 2015 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update

Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman and Marsha Gold

Effective Employment Services for Persons with Mental Retardation

Paul T. Decker and Craig Thornton

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

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

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

Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Carlson

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

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

Reimagining Accountability in K-12 Education

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

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

Disease Management Technologies: User Needs Can Guide Decision Making

Rachel Shapiro and Lorenzo Moreno

Combination Classes and Educational Achievement (Conference Paper)

Jaime Thomas

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

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

A Guide to Real-World Evaluations of Primary Care Interventions: Some Practical Advice

Deborah Peikes, Erin Fries Taylor, Janice Genevro and David Meyers

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

Silvie Colman, Ted Joyce and Thomas Dee

The Transitional Employment Training Demonstration: Analysis of Program Impacts

Craig Thornton and Paul Decker

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

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

Beth Stevens and Sheila D. Hoag

Partnering with Schools and Providers to Expand Health Insurance Coverage to Low-Income Families

Holly Stockdale, Embry Howell and Ian Hill

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

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

National Beneficiary Survey Round 1: Public Use File Codebook

Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2014

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

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

Tim Kautz and Quinn Moore

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

James Verdier

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness in Memphis

Eric Isenberg

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

An Examination of the Maternal Health Quality of Care Landscape in India

So O'Neil, Katie Naeve and Rajani Ved

Massachusetts Homeless Triage Assessment

James Mabli and Hande Inanc

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

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Brenna Rabel

SCHIP in Ohio: Evolution and Outlook for the Future

Carol Irvin, Nancy Fasciano and Margo Rosenbach

Measurement of Childhood Serious Emotional Disturbance: State of the Science and Issues for Consideration

Heather Ringeisen, Leyla Stambaugh, Cecilia Casanueva, Beth Stroul, Jerry West, Jonaki Bose, Sarra Hedden, Gary Blau, Shelli Avenevoli, Lisa Colpe, Kathleen Merikangas, Glorisa Canino, Alice Carter, William E. Copeland, Prudence W. Fisher, Joan Kaufman and William Narrow

Consequences of Inaccurate Medicaid Administrative Data on Survey Response Rates and Medicaid Health Policy Issues

Anne Ciemnecki, Karen CyBulski and Judith Wooldridge

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

Expanding Coverage for Children: The Santa Clara County Children's Health Initiative

Christopher Trenholm

Identifying and Benchmarking the Number of Medicaid Beneficiaries with Comprehensive Benefits in 2017 (Brief)

Laura Nolan, Allison Barrett, Mary Allison Geibel, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

Medicaid Analytic Extract Provider Characteristics (MAXPC) Evaluation Report, 2010

Deo Bencio

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

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: POD BOND Comparison Report

Michael Levere, David Mann and David Wittenburg

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

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephaine McLeod

Comparative Case Study Analysis of Five Clinical Practice Guidelines in Anesthesiology

Ruchir Karmali, Noa Sager and Anna Christensen

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

John Deke and Lisa Dragoset

Charter Schools and the Public Interest

Philip Gleason and Helen Ladd

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

Analysis of Children's Health Insurance Patterns: Findings from the SIPP

John L. Czajka

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

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

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

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

Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 2000 to 2006

Kari Wolkwitz

Program Snapshot: Bridges from School to Work

Jody Schimmel Hyde and Katie Bodenlos

Mejores Inicios El Estado del Aprendizaje Temprano y Preparacin para el Kindergarten en East Yakima

Diane Paulsell, Kimberly Boller, Nikki Aikens, Martha Kovac and Patricia Del Grosso

Evaluating Early Childhood Assessments: A Differential Analysis

Samuel J and Meisels Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting

Lara K. Hulsey, Robert G. Wood and Anu Rangarajan

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

Sarah Dolfin and Peter Z. Schochet

Food Stamps in Rural America: Special Issues and Common Themes

Sheena McConnell and James Ohls

Comprehensive Reform for 21st Century Success: New Directions for Community Colleges

Nan L. Maxwell Ann E. Person and Editors

Final Evaluation of Increasing Economic and Social Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Vulnerable Women (EMPOWER) in Zambia

Ale Aponte, Evan Fantozzi, Amanda Beatty, Gelson Tembo, Chisangu Matome, Nathan Tembo and Evan Borkum

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

You've Got Error

Ronald R. Palanca

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

Deborah Chollet, Jeffrey Ballou, Allison Barrett and Thomas Bell

Cash and Counseling: An Innovative Model for Consumer Choice

Randall S. Brown

Early Home Learning Environment Predicts Children’s 5th Grade Academic Skills

Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Rufan Luo, Karen E. McFadden, Eileen T. Bandel and Claire Vallotton

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

Sarah Bardin, Liana Washburn and Elizabeth Gearan

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

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

Michelle Derr and Kristen Joyce

Effective Care Coordination: The Hard Evidence from the Field

Randall Brown

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

How Do Parents Evaluate and Select Schools? Evidence From a Survey Experiment

Shira Haderlein

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years (Executive Summary)

Hanley Chiang, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann, Kristin Hallgren, Paul Burkander and Alison Wellington

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

Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center Creating a Data Model to Analyze TANF Caseloads

Emily Wiegand, Robert Goerge and Leah Gjertson

Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees: 2005-2007

David K. Baugh and Shinu Verghese

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

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

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

Jonathan McCay and Lily Roberts

Draft Medicaid Access Tool

Bridget Bernick

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

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

Selecting Policy Indicators and Developing Simulation Models for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs

Lisa Dragoset and Anne Gordon

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program State Implementation Progress, School Year 2014-2015 (Summary)

Quinn Moore, Kevin Conway, Brandon Kyler and Andrew Gothro

Emerging Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations: The Role of Managed Care

Marsha Gold, Jessica Nysenbaum and Sonya Streeter

Does Medicare HMO Enrollment Cause Adverse Selection in Medigap?

Deborah Chollet and Adele Kirk

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

Jillian Berk

KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes

Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Alexandra Resch

Prevalence of Unclaimed Prescriptions at Military Pharmacies

Dominick Esposito, Eric Schone, Thomas Williams, Su Liu, Karen CyBulski, Rita Stapulonis and Nancy Clusen

Coastal Medical's Leadership Academies: Investing in Staff Development and Collaboration (Case Study)

Rivka Weiser and Julia Embry