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Making Effective Use of Postsecondary Data in K-12 Education Settings

Luke Heinkel, Kristin Hallgren, Brian Gill and Megan Shoji

The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Implementation and Short-Term Impacts

Myles Maxfield, Allen Schirm and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

Reimagining Accountability in K-12 Education

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

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

Emily Rosenthal, Amy Rathbun and Jerry West

Evaluating Early Childhood Assessments: A Differential Analysis

Samuel J and Meisels Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

So O'Neil, Katie Naeve and Rajani Ved

Current and Future Sources of Health Insurance Coverage for Alabama Residents

Deborah Chollet, Allison Barrett and Thomas Bell

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

James Verdier and Allison Barrett

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

What is Moral Sanctity? Sanctity in the Moral Worldviews of U.S. Political Liberals

Allison DiBianca Fasoli, Alexandra Saunders and Irene Andrade

Work-Related Overpayments Among Disability Beneficiaries

Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore

Moving High-Performing Teachers: Implementation of Transfer Incentives in Seven Districts

Steven Glazerman, Ali Protik, Bing-ru Teh, Julie Bruch and Neil Seftor

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

Districts and Data: Developing Capacity for Effective Data Use

Cassie Pickens Jewell, Libby Makowsky and Kristin Hallgren

2012 Regional Partnership Grants to Increase the Well-Being of and to Improve the Permanency Outcomes for Children Affected by Substance Abuse: Second Annual Report to Congress

Debra A. Strong, Sarah A. Avellar, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Megan Hague-Angus and Caroline Massad Francis

Using Health Text Messages to Improve Consumer Health Knowledge, Behaviors, and Outcomes: An Environmental Scan

Mathematica Policy Research and Public Health Institute

Program Snapshot: Bridges from School to Work

Jody Schimmel Hyde and Katie Bodenlos

AAPOR Report on Big Data

Task Force Members Include: Lilli Japec, Frauke Kreuter, Marcus Berg, Paul Biemer, Paul Decker, Cliff Lampe, Julia Lane, Cathy O'Neil and Abe Usher

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

Holly Stockdale, Embry Howell and Ian Hill

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

Medicare Advantage in Rural Areas: Experience Under the MMA

Marsha Gold

Practice Characteristics of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners and Physicians

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

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

Silvie Colman, Ted Joyce and Thomas Dee

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

Rivka Weiser and Julia Embry

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

Peter Z. Schochet and John Deke

Further Progress, Persistent Constraints: Findings from a Second Survey of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program

Irma Perez-Johnson, Alan Hershey and Jeanne Bellotti

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

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

Sukey Leshnick and Sarah Thomason

Long†Run Labor Market Effects of the Job Corps Program: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Experiment

Peter Z. Schochet

QRS Profile: Mississippi Quality Step System

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

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

Jonathan McCay and Lily Roberts

Mortality Risk and Human Capital Investment: The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jane G. Fortson

Improving the Income Allocation Procedures in MATH

Pat Doyle and Carole Trippe

Logics of Freedom: Debating Religious Freedom Laws and Gay and Lesbian Rights

Emily Kazyak, Kelsy Burke and Mathew Stange

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

Background Paper for Assessing the Evaluability of the HHS Strategic Plan to End Chronic Homelessness

Valerie Cheh and Rachel Shapiro

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

Jillian Berk

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

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

Strengthening Partnerships Between Fatherhood and Human Services Programs to Improve Father Engagement

Armando Yañez and Rebekah Selekman

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: POD BOND Comparison Report

Michael Levere, David Mann and David Wittenburg

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

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

Working with Out-of-School Youth from Minority Backgrounds: What CILs Offer and What They Value

Stacie Feldman, Purvi Sevak and Mira Wang

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

Anu Rangarajan and Tim Novak

Food Stamps in Rural America: Special Issues and Common Themes

Sheena McConnell and James Ohls

The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings

Robin Lake, Brianna Dusseault, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt and Paul Hill

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

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephaine McLeod

How Retailers Responded to Taxes on Sweetened Beverages: A Tale of Two Cities

Jeanette Holdbrook, Dana Petersen, David Jones and David Frisvold

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

Elizabeth Weigensberg

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

Susan Mitchell

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

Karen Cunnyngham

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

Jessica F. Harding and Diane Paulsell

Differences in Enrollee Outcomes Among Medicaid Managed Care Organizations

Lorenzo Moreno and Sheila Hoag

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

Supporting Parents with Child Care During Training

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

Technical Appendix: Considerations for Measuring T/TA Performance

Jesse Chandler

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

David Myers and Mark Dynarski

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. López, Patricia Lozano, Christine Ong and Jessica Brauner

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

National Beneficiary Survey Round 1: Public Use File Codebook

Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones

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

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

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

Disease Management Technologies: User Needs Can Guide Decision Making

Rachel Shapiro and Lorenzo Moreno

A More Diverse Teaching Force May Improve Educational Outcomes for Minority Students (Infographic)

Jeffrey Terziev

The State of Teacher Induction in Urban America

Martha Bleeker, Sarah Dolfin, Amy Johnson, Steven Glazerman, Eric Isenberg and Mary Grider

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

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

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

You've Got Error

Ronald R. Palanca

Minnesota Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) Project Demonstration: Final Evaluation Report

Purvi Sevak, Matthew Kehn, Todd Honeycutt and Gina Livermore

Pneumonia, 1992-2002: Appendix B, Detailed Tables, Appendix C, ICD9 Codes for Pneumonia Cohorts

Robert Schmitz

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

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

Candace Natoli, Valerie Cheh and Shinu Verghese

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

Michelle Derr and Kristen Joyce

The Role of Psychiatric Hospitals in the Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines

Jonathan Brown and Nadia Bell

Child Participation in Supplemental Security Income: Cross- and Within-State Determinants of Caseload Growth

Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

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

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Brenna Rabel

Using Payment Incentives to Improve Care for the Chronically Ill in Medicare: First Year Implementation of the Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration (MCMP)

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Christopher Fleming, Brenda Natzke and Rachel Shapiro

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

Shira Haderlein

Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction of Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas (Journal Article)

Leslie Foster, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

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

Promising Results from the Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network Analysis

Debbie Peikes, Greg Peterson and Randall Brown

Creating Paths to Father Involvement: Lessons from Early Head Start

Andrew Burwick and Jeanne Bellotti

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

Steve Bruns

National Science Foundation Report on Efficiency of Grant Size and Duration: Principal Investigator FY 2001 Grant Award Survey and Institutional Survey

Janice Ballou, Matthew Mishkind, Geraldine Mooney and Welmoet van Kammen

Massachusetts Homeless Triage Assessment

James Mabli and Hande Inanc

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

SCAN Policies Database Fact Sheet

Elizabeth Weigensberg and Nuzhat Islam

The Evaluation of Teacher Preparation Models: Design Report

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

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

Tim Lake, Tara Krissik, Kate Stewart and Marsha Gold

The NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program: Career Outcomes of Scholars and Non-Awarded Finalists

Steven Glazerman, Neil Seftor and Jesse Gregory

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

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

Overview of the Independent Evaluation of CPC+

Various Authors

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

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

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

State of Arkansas and Hennepin County, Minnesota. Improving Participation in Food Stamps: Strategies and Challenges

Angela Merrill, Megan McHugh, Liz Schott and Julie Darnell

The Role of Goal Setting in Integrated Service Delivery

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

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