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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

Evidence Snapshot: Financial Incentives

Jillian Stein and Dana Rotz

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

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Megan McHugh. Embry Howell

Biased Selection in the Tefra HMO/CMP Program

Jerrold W. Hill and Randall S. Brown

Rewarding Physicians for Their Patients' Health Outcomes: What Can Medicare Learn from Education's Value-Added Models?

Greg Peterson and Eric Schone

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adult Education Programs: Findings from Recent Research

Mary T. Moore and Tim Silva

Improving the Income Allocation Procedures in MATH

Pat Doyle and Carole Trippe

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

Robert Schmitz

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

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

Karen Cunnyngham

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

Steve Bruns

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

Erin Dillon and Steven Malick

Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends: Trends in Health Expenditures

Deborah Chollet

Trends in FSP Participation Rates: Focus on September 1997

Laura Castner and Scott Cody

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

WIC-Medicaid II Feasibility Study: Final Report Appendices

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

Best Practices in Ensuring Data Quality in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS)

Sarah Friese, Kathryn Tout and Gretchen Kirby

Aligning Federal Performance Indicators Across Programs Promoting Self-Sufficiency: Local Perspectives

Elizabeth Brown, Kara Conroy and Gretchen G. Kirby

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

James Verdier and Allison Barrett

Food Stamp Participants' Access to Food Retailers

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

QRS Profile: Mississippi Quality Step System

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Iowa Families That Left TANF: How Are They Faring Two Years Later?

Jacqueline Kauff, Thomas Fraker and Julita Milliner-Waddell

2014 Facts and Findings

Mathematica Policy Research

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (NSSATS): 2004, Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

Louisa Tarullo, Jerry West, Nikki Aikens and Lara Hulsey

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

Valerie Cheh and Rachel Shapiro

A Framework for Selecting Employment Interventions to Benefit Youth

Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere

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

Early Head Start Children in Grade 5: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project Study Sample

Cheri A. Vogel, Yange Xue, Emily M. Moiduddin, Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Ellen Eliason Kisker

Rigorous Evaluation of Roads to Success: Design Report

Duncan Chaplin, Martha Bleeker and Claire Smither

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

Districts and Data: Developing Capacity for Effective Data Use

Cassie Pickens Jewell, Libby Makowsky and Kristin Hallgren

Partners HealthCare ACO and the Three-Day Rule Waiver: Implementation Approach and Lessons Learned

Sonya Streeter

Youth and Family Participation in the Governance of Residential Treatment Facilities

Jonathan D. Brown, Henry T. Ireys, Kamala Allen, Tara Krissik, Kirsten Barrett, Sheila A. Pires and Gary Blau

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

Irma Perez-Johnson, Alan Hershey and Jeanne Bellotti

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

Peter Z. Schochet

Promising Results from the Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network Analysis

Debbie Peikes, Greg Peterson and Randall 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

Nutritional Quality of Congregate and Home-Delivered Meals Offered in the Title III-C Nutrition Services Program: An Examination Utilizing the Healthy Eating Index Tool

Katherine Niland, Mary Kay Fox and Elizabeth Gearan

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

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

Emily Rosenthal, Amy Rathbun and Jerry West

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

The SSDI Trust Fund: New Solutions to an Old Problem

David Stapleton and David Wittenburg

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

Steven Glazerman, Neil Seftor and Jesse Gregory

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

Peter Z. Schochet

Adapting Evaluations of Alternative Payment Models to a Changing Environment

Thomas W. Grannemann and Randall S. Brown

Work-Related Overpayments Among Disability Beneficiaries

Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore

Practice Characteristics of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners and Physicians

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

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

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

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

Jeanette Holdbrook, Dana Petersen, David Jones and David Frisvold

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

Jane G. Fortson

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

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

The Community Safety Net and Prescription Drug Access for Low-Income, Uninsured People

Laurie E. Felland, Erin Fries Taylor and Anneliese M. Gerland

School Performance and Early Childbearing: Identifying Girls at Risk of Teenage Parenthood

Robert G. Wood

National Estimates of Mental Health Insurance Benefits

Myles Maxfield, Lori Achman and Anna Cook

Impacts of the Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot

Susan Purdon, Nina Stratford, Rebecca Taylor, Lucy Natarajan, Stephen Bell and David Wittenburg

Racial Variation in Vocational Rehabilitation Outcomes: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Frank H. Martin

Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2000

Allen L. Schirm and Laura A. Castner

Sensitivity of Teacher Value-Added Estimates to Student and Peer Control Variables

Matthew Johnson, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

Evaluation of the Military Base National Emergency Grants

Karen Needels, Jeanne Bellotti, Mina Dadgar and Walter Nicholson

Assessment of State Capacity to Identify and Track Disparities in the Leading Health Indicators

Allison Hedley Dodd, Melissa Neuman and Marsha Gold

Empowering Families: Implementation of an Integrated HMRE, Employment, and Financial Literacy Program for Low-Income Couples

Angela Valdovinos D’Angelo and Katie Bodenlos

Growing America Through Entrepreneurship

Jeanne Bellotti, Sheena McConnell and Jacob Benus

The Challenges of Measuring Performance

William S. Borden

An Assessment of Computer Matching in the Food Stamp Program Vol. I: Summary of Survey Results

William S. Borden and Robbi L. Ruben-Urm

Measuring the Quality of Caregiver-Child Interactions for Infants and Toddlers (Q-CCIIT) (Appendices)

Sally Atkins-Burnett, Shannon Monahan, Louisa Tarullo, Yange Xue, Elizabeth Cavadel, Lizabeth Malone and Lauren Akers

Effect of the Million Hearts Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model on Initiating and Intensifying Medications

Gregory Peterson, Jia Pu, David J. Magid, Linda Barterian, Keith Kranker, Michael Barna, Leslie Conwell, Adam Rose, Laura Blue, Amanda Markovitz, Nancy McCall and Patricia Markovich

Sensitivity of Self-Reported Noncognitive Skills to Survey Administration Conditions

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

The "Interactions and Developmental Processes" Study of the Teenage Parent Demonstration Project: Volume 1, Final Report

J. Lawrence Aber, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Lisa J. Berlin, George J. Carcagno, Susan Sprachman, Christine Ross and Rebecca Maynard

A Guide to Disability Statistics from the Survey of Income and Program Participation

David Wittenburg and Sandi Nelson

Improving Care for Dual Eligibles: Opportunities for Medicare Managed Care Plans

James M. Verdier

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of New York's Child Health Plus Program

Ian Hill and Corinna Hawkes

Getting the Mix Right: Pricing, Benefits, and Risk Adjustment for Dual Eligibles

James M. Verdier

Design Options for an Impact Evaluation of the Participant Assistance Program

Annalisa Mastri, Jeanne Bellotti, Julie Bruch, Grace Roemer and Beenu Puri

Program Snapshot: Oklahoma's Practice Enhancement Assistants

Rachel M. Machta and Erin Fries Taylor

The Promise and Limitations of Employment Policies for Current SSI Recipients

Craig Thornton

The Impact of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Applications to Federal Disability Programs

Priyanka Anand, Jody Schimmel Hyde, Maggie Colby and Paul O’Leary

Managed Care for Low-Income Populations with Special Needs: The Tennessee Experience

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

Health Information Technology in the United States, 2015: Transition to a Post-HITECH World (Executive Summary)

Edited by Catherine M. DesRoches, Michael W. Painter and Ashish K. Jha

Learning to Enhance Strategies for Coaching Families Virtually: Lessons from Iowa's Family Development and Self-Sufficiency Home Visiting Program

Michelle K. Derr, Ryan Ruggiero, Lorie Easter, Page Eastin and Ella Gifford-Hawkins

Preventing Rapid Repeat Births Among Adolescent Mothers: Implementing Steps to Success in San Angelo, Texas

Ellen Eliason Kisker, Jacqueline Berman, Amy Blasberg and Robert G. Wood

Early Head Start Research and Evaluation (EHSRE) Study: 1996-2001 Appendices, Volume I

John M. Love, Ellen Eliason Kisker and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Safe or Not? Consumer Responses to Recalls with Traceability

Chantal Toledo and Sofia Villas-Boas

The Complex Art of Making It Simple: Factors Affecting Enrollment in Integrated Care Demonstrations for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries, Appendices

Debra J. Lipson, Erin Weir Lakhmani, Alena Tourtellotte and Danielle Chelminsky

Trends in Primary Cesarean Section Rates Among Women With and Without Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Melissa K. Zochowski, Giselle E. Kolenic, Kara Zivin, Anca Tilea, Lindsay K. Admon, Stephanie V. Hall, Agatha Advincula and Vanessa K. Dalton

Breaking Down the Numbers: What Does COVID-19 Mean for Youth Unemployment?

Hande Inanc

A New Tool for Rapid-Cycle Comparative Effectiveness Research: The Promise of Orthogonal Design

Jelena Zurovac, Randy Brown, Kieron Dey, Jodi Segal and David Vanness

Outcomes of Cancer Surgeries

Eric Schone

Charter High Schools' Effects on Long-Term Attainment and Earnings (Journal Article)

Tim Sass, Ron Zimmer, Brian P. Gill and Kevin T. Booker

Morocco Land Productivity Project: Evaluation Design Report

Anthony Harris, Anthony D'Agostino, Sara Litke-Farzaneh, Beryl Seiler and Matt Sloan

Unemployment, Temporary Work, and Subjective Well-Being: The Gendered Effect of Spousal Labor Market Insecurity

Hande Inanc

Care Plans, Care Teams, and Quality of Life for People with Disabilities

Karen Donelan, Yuchiao Chang, Holly Matulewicz, Kimberly Warsett, Dennis Heaphy and Lisa I. Iezzoni

Disposing of Children's Diapers with Solid Waste: A Global Concern?

Heather Reese, Breanna Alman and Clair Null

Has Treatment for Substance Use Disorders Increased?

Ellen Bouchery

A Guide to the PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Framework and Toolkit

Mathematica Policy Research

Evaluation of UNICEF's Early Childhood Development Programme with Focus on Government of Netherlands Funding (2008-2010): Cambodia Country Case Study

Kimberly Boller, Kathy Buek, Andrew Burwick, Minki Chatterji, Diane Paulsell, Samia Amin, Evan Borkum, Larissa Campuzano and Jessica Jacobson

Challenges and Lessons Learned from Providing Large-Scale Evaluation Technical Assistance to Build the Adolescent Pregnancy Evidence Base (Journal Article)

Jean Knab, Russell P. Cole and Susan Goerlich Zief

The Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) 2008: Dramatic Changes in the Amount and Quality of Vegetables in the Diet Occur After the First Year of Life

Denise Deming, Kathleen Reidy, Ronette Briefel, Mary Kay Fox and Elizabeth Condon