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

Lisa Dragoset and Anne Gordon

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

Karen E. Cunnyngham

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

Emerging Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations: The Role of Managed Care

Marsha Gold, Jessica Nysenbaum and Sonya Streeter

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

Peter Z. Schochet

Cash and Counseling: An Innovative Model for Consumer Choice

Randall S. Brown

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

Beth Stevens, Bridget Lavin and Valerie Cheh

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

Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees: 2005-2007

David K. Baugh and Shinu Verghese

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

Robert Schmitz

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

Candace Natoli, Valerie Cheh and Shinu Verghese

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

Sarah Dolfin and Peter Z. Schochet

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

Michelle Derr and Kristen Joyce

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

Erin Dillon and Steven Malick

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

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

Combination Classes and Educational Achievement (Conference Paper)

Jaime Thomas

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

Abbie Turiansky

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

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

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

The Early Experience of the Health Quality Partners Case Management Program

Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore

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

James Verdier and Allison Barrett

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

John L. Czajka

Trends in FSP Participation Rates: Focus on September 1997

Laura Castner and Scott Cody

What the Evidence Says: Intimate Partner Violence and Home Visiting

Katie Niland, Marykate Zukiewicz and Emily Sama-Miller

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

Impacts of the 9th SOW QIO Program Care Transitions Theme on Condition-Specific Readmission Rates

Jelena Zurovac, Arnold Chen, Sue Felt-Lisk and Myles Maxfield

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

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephaine McLeod

Biased Selection in the Tefra HMO/CMP Program

Jerrold W. Hill and Randall S. Brown

Creating Paths to Father Involvement: Lessons from Early Head Start

Andrew Burwick and Jeanne Bellotti

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

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Brenna Rabel

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

Stacy Berg Dale and Alan Krueger

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

School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study Volume 3: School Meal Costs and Revenues (Summary)

Christopher W. Logan, Vinh Tran, Maria Boyle, Ayesha Enver, Matthew Zeidenberg and Michele Mendelson

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

Steven Glazerman, Allison McKie, Nancy Carey and Dominic Harris

Potential Effects of Program Changes on Food Stamp Program Error Rates

James C. Ohls and Jennifer Schore

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

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

So O'Neil, Katie Naeve and Rajani Ved

National Beneficiary Survey Round 1: Public Use File Codebook

Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones

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

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

Wash For Life: Stage 2 Grantee Profiles

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

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

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

Jonathan Brown and Nadia Bell

Promising Results from the Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network Analysis

Debbie Peikes, Greg Peterson and Randall Brown

WIC-Medicaid II Feasibility Study: Final Report Appendices

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

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

Susan Holland and Pat Doyle

The State of Teacher Induction in Urban America

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

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

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

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

Kelsey Farson Gray

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

Jillian Berk

SCHIP in Ohio: Evolution and Outlook for the Future

Carol Irvin, Nancy Fasciano and Margo Rosenbach

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

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

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

The Changing UI Claimant Population: Is It Time to Retool Reemployment Services?

Karen Needels, Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

Growing America Through Entrepreneurship

Jeanne Bellotti, Sheena McConnell and Jacob Benus

Value for the Money Spent? Exploring the Relationship Between Expenditures, Insurance Adequacy, and Access to Care for Publicly Insured Children

Margaret S. Colby, Debra J. Lipson and Sarah R. Turchin

Further Research on the Use of Data on Interruptions in Telephone Service

Prepared for AAPOR Council by the Cell Phone Task Force operating under the auspices of the AAPOR Standards Committee of which John Hall is a Member

Commentary: Teaching Health Centers and the Path to Graduate Medical Education Reform

Eugene C. Rich

Costs, Cuts, and Consequences: Charting a New Course for Working-Age People with Disabilities

David Stapleton and Gina Livermore

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

Eleanor Morefield, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Process Study Report

Michelle Derr, Denise Hoffman, Jillian Berk, Ann Person, David Stapleton, Sarah Croake, Christopher Jones and Jonathan McCay

A Guide to the PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Framework and Toolkit

Mathematica Policy Research

Who’s At Risk of Entering Social Security Disability Insurance? A Comparison of Application and Allowance Rates for Groups of At-Risk Individuals

Kara Contreary and Todd Honeycutt

Cost-Effectiveness of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses

Christopher O'Leary, Paul T. Decker and Stephen A. Wandner

The Effect of Interview Experience on Follow-Up Response Propensity in a Longitudinal Survey (paper)

Matt Sloan and Debra Wright

Connecting the Dots: Provider Networks of Youth Receiving Supplemental Security Income (Journal Article)

Todd C. Honeycutt and David Wittenburg

The Role of Randomized Experiments in Employment and Training Evaluation

Rebecca Maynard

Implementation and Relative Impacts of Two Job Search Assistance Programs in Sacramento County, California

Karin Martinson, Eleanor Harvill, Correne Saunders, Daniel Litwok, Alicia Meckstroth and Steve Bates

Impacts of a Large-Scale Agricultural Training Program in Armenia

Kenneth Fortson, Randall Blair, Joanne Lee and Anu Rangarajan

New Perspectives on Practice: A Guide to Measuring Self-Regulation and Goal-Related Outcomes in Employment Programs

Elizabeth W. Cavadel, Jacqueline F. Kauff, Ann Person and Talia Kahn-Kravis

Baseline Equivalence: What it is and Why it is Needed

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

National Job Corps Study: Methodological Appendixes on the Impact Analysis

Peter Z. Schochet

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Pilot Projects in Increasing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation Among the Medicare Extra Help Population (Summary)

Emily Sama-Miller, Libby Makowsky, Gretchen Rowe, Elizabeth Brown, Elizabeth Clary, Laura Castner and Miki Satake

The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2003 and 2005 Performance in Puerto Rico

Gail P. Baxter, Martha Bleeker, Tiffany L. Waits and Sameena Salvucci

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

James M. Verdier

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

David Wittenburg and Sandi Nelson

Measuring School Leaders' Effectiveness: An Interim Report from a Multiyear Pilot of Pennsylvania's Framework for Leadership

Bing-ru Teh, Hanley Chiang, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

Collecting Sensitive Information and Encouraging Reluctant Respondents

Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo, Jacqueline Crowley, Lauren Maul and Debra Strong

Costs and Benefits of Eliminating the Medicare Waiting Period for SSDI Beneficiaries

Gina Livermore, David Stapleton and Henry Claypool

A Framework for Advancing the Well-Being and Self-Sufficiency of At-Risk Youth

M. Robin Dion

Findings from the Nutrition Services Program Process Study and Meal Cost Analysis

Holly Greuling, Susan Jenkins, James Mabli and Jessica Ziegler

Case Studies of Exemplary Primary Care Practice Facilitation Training Programs

Tricia Collins Higgins, Dana Petersen, Lyndee Knox, Lisa Schottenfeld, Liz Babalola, Erin Taylor, Jesse Crosson and Deborah Peikes

Building Data Capacity in Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grantees: Challenges and Recommended Support

Daniel Friend, Rebecca Kleinman, Megan Hague Angus, Hannah McInerny, Leah Pranschke and Sarah Avellar

Development of "The Respect for Difference Scale" (RDS): A New Parent Report Measure

Susan Sprachman, Margaret Caspe and Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

Measuring Father Involvement in the Early Head Start Evaluation: A Multidimensional Conceptualization

Natasha J. Cabrera, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Michael E. Lamb and Kimberly Boller

Findings from the Impact Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Programme

Dan Levy and Jim Ohls

Program Snapshot: Oklahoma's Practice Enhancement Assistants

Rachel M. Machta and Erin Fries Taylor

The Impact of the Medicare Risk Program on the Use of Services and Costs to Medicare

Jerrold Hill, Randall Brown, Dexter Chu and Jeanette Bergeron

Is School Value Added Indicative of Principal Quality? (Journal Article)

Hanley Chiang, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

Doing Good While Doing Business Using Financial Viability to Enhance Employability for the Disadvantaged

Nan L. Maxwell, Adam Dunn, Dana Rotz and Megan Shoji

National Estimates of Mental Health Insurance Benefits

Myles Maxfield, Lori Achman and Anna Cook

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2011 (Executive Summary)

Mark Strayer, Joshua Leftin and Esa Eslami

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

The Work Experiences of New SSI Beneficiaries: A Longitudinal Perspective

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

How Do Medicaid Buy-In Participants Who Collect Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits Use SSA Work Incentive Programs?

Kristin Andrews, Bob Weathers and Su Liu

PREP Performance Measures Fact Sheet: 2019-2020

Lara Hulsey, Lauren Murphy and Diletta Mittone

Congressional Status Report: Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Demonstrations

Ronette Briefel, Ann Collins, Jeanne Bellotti, Jacob Klerman, Christopher W. Logan, Charlotte Cabili, Gretchen Rowe, Jacey Greece, Cheryl Owens and Andy Weiss

Developing Strategies to Address Implementation Challenges Facing Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Grantees

Scott Baumgartner, Daniel Friend, Robert G. Wood, Annie Buonaspina and Hannah McInerney