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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

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

Luke Heinkel, Kristin Hallgren, Brian Gill and Megan Shoji

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

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

Tim Kautz and Quinn Moore

Districts and Data: Developing Capacity for Effective Data Use

Cassie Pickens Jewell, Libby Makowsky and Kristin Hallgren

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

Silvie Colman, Ted Joyce and Thomas Dee

National Beneficiary Survey Round 1: Public Use File Codebook

Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones

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

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

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program: State Implementation Progress School Year 2010-2011

Quinn Moore, Kevin Conway and Brandon Kyler

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

Consumer and Provider Perspectives on Shared Decision Making: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed Literature

Nyna Williams and Chris Fleming

Comparative Case Study Analysis of Five Clinical Practice Guidelines in Anesthesiology

Ruchir Karmali, Noa Sager and Anna Christensen

Does Medicare HMO Enrollment Cause Adverse Selection in Medigap?

Deborah Chollet and Adele Kirk

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness in Memphis

Eric Isenberg

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

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

Sarah Bardin, Liana Washburn and Elizabeth Gearan

Emerging Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations: The Role of Managed Care

Marsha Gold, Jessica Nysenbaum and Sonya Streeter

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

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

Jane G. Fortson

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

Sukey Leshnick and Sarah Thomason

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

Medicare Advantage in Rural Areas: Experience Under the MMA

Marsha Gold

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

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

Benefits and Challenges of Expanding Grid Electricity in Africa: A Review of Rigorous Evidence on Household Impacts in Developing Countries

Kristine Bos, Duncan Chaplin and Arif Mamun

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

Beth Stevens and Sheila D. Hoag

How Individual and Environmental Factors Affect Employment Outcomes

Purvi Sevak and David C. Stapleton John O’Neill

Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 2000 to 2006

Kari Wolkwitz

Biased Selection in the Tefra HMO/CMP Program

Jerrold W. Hill and Randall S. Brown

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

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

Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker

Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 30-Month Impact Findings on the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs, Technical Supplement

Dana Rotz, Paul Burkander, Mary Grider, Kenneth Fortson, Linda Molinari, Elias Sanchez-Eppler and Lindsay Cattell

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

Karen Cunnyngham

Improving the Connectedness of Long-Term Care Providers: Cross Site Report

Beth Stevens, Bridget Lavin and Valerie Cheh

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

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

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

Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

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

WIC-Medicaid II Feasibility Study: Final Report Appendices

Keith Kranker, Mary Kay Fox, Nora Paxton and Jessica Galin

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

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

Combination Classes and Educational Achievement (Conference Paper)

Jaime Thomas

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

Michelle Derr and Kristen Joyce

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

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

Robert Schmitz

Evaluation of the Business Case for Quality, Phase II

Kristin Andrews, Dominick Esposito, Erin Fries Taylor, Keith Kranker, Lei Rao, Sandra Greene, Kristin Reiter, Charlotte Williams and Stephanie Pierson

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

Steven Glazerman, Neil Seftor and Jesse Gregory

Maternal and Child Characteristics Associated with Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices

Kristy Hendricks, Ronette Briefel, Timothy Novak and Paula Ziegler

Medicare Advantage 2015 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update

Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman and Marsha Gold

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

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Megan McHugh. Embry Howell

Evaluation of the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) in the Chicago Public Schools: Study Design Report

Steven Glazerman, Allison McKie, Nancy Carey and Dominic Harris

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

John Deke and Lisa Dragoset

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

Cash and Counseling: An Innovative Model for Consumer Choice

Randall S. Brown

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

Jenna Libersky and James Verdier

Primary Care Practice Transformation Introduces Different Staff Roles

Kaylyn E. Swankoski, Deborah N. Peikes, Maya Palakal, Nancy Duda and Timothy J. Day

Potential Effects of Program Changes on Food Stamp Program Error Rates

James C. Ohls and Jennifer Schore

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

Draft Medicaid Access Tool

Bridget Bernick

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

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

Jeffrey Terziev

Food Stamp Participants' Access to Food Retailers

James C. Ohls, Michael Ponza, Lorenzo Moreno, Amy Zambrowski and Rhoda Cohen

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

Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Psychiatric Disorders and Other Disabilities

Bonnie O'Day, Crystal Blyler, Benjamin Fischer, Claire Gill, Todd Honeycutt, Rebecca Kleinman, Joseph Mastrianni, Eric Morris, Lisa Schottenfeld, Allison Thompkins, Allison Wishon-Siegwarth and Michelle Bailey

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2009-2011 for All Eligible People and the Working Poor

Karen Cunnyngham, Amang Sukasih and Laura Castner

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

Jessica F. Harding and Diane Paulsell

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

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

Myles Maxfield, Allen Schirm and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

An Approach for Addressing the Multiple Testing Problem in Social Policy Impact Evaluations

Peter Z. Schochet

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 2 Video: USDA, FAS)

Eleanor Morefield, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

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

Louisa Tarullo, Jerry West, Nikki Aikens and Lara Hulsey

Supporting Parents with Child Care During Training

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

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

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

Valerie Cheh

Differences in Enrollee Outcomes Among Medicaid Managed Care Organizations

Lorenzo Moreno and Sheila Hoag

You've Got Error

Ronald R. Palanca

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

David Myers and Mark Dynarski

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

Karen Needels and Annalisa Mastri

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

Jonathan McCay and Lily Roberts

Effective Employment Services for Persons with Mental Retardation

Paul T. Decker and Craig Thornton

Disease Management Technologies: User Needs Can Guide Decision Making

Rachel Shapiro and Lorenzo Moreno

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

Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Carlson

COVID-19 Risk in Rural North Carolina

Aparna Keshaviah, Cindy Hu and Marisa Henry

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

Kelsey Farson Gray

Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends: Trends in Health Expenditures

Deborah Chollet

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

Mathematica Policy Research and Public Health Institute

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

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

The Early Experience of the Health Quality Partners Case Management Program

Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore

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

Prevalence of Unclaimed Prescriptions at Military Pharmacies

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

Promising Results from the Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network Analysis

Debbie Peikes, Greg Peterson and Randall Brown

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

Massachusetts Homeless Triage Assessment

James Mabli and Hande Inanc

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

Susan Holland and Pat Doyle

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

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

James Verdier and Allison Barrett

Adapting Evaluations of Alternative Payment Models to a Changing Environment

Thomas W. Grannemann and Randall S. Brown

Evaluating Early Childhood Assessments: A Differential Analysis

Samuel J and Meisels Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

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