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

Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

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

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

Current and Future Sources of Health Insurance Coverage for Alabama Residents

Deborah Chollet, Allison Barrett and Thomas Bell

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

Strategies for Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten: Toolkit for Districts, Schools, and Early Childhood Providers

Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz

Effective Employment Services for Persons with Mental Retardation

Paul T. Decker and Craig Thornton

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

Irma Perez-Johnson, Alan Hershey and Jeanne Bellotti

AB Demonstration: Recruitment, Process, and Impact Findings After One Year

David Wittenburg

Improving the Income Allocation Procedures in MATH

Pat Doyle and Carole Trippe

Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 2000 to 2006

Kari Wolkwitz

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

Emily Kazyak, Kelsy Burke and Mathew Stange

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

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

Emily Wiegand, Robert Goerge and Leah Gjertson

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

SCHIP in Ohio: Evolution and Outlook for the Future

Carol Irvin, Nancy Fasciano and Margo Rosenbach

The Labor Market Consequences of Receiving Disability Benefits During Childhood

Michael Levere

Measuring School Leaders' Effectiveness: Findings from a Multiyear Pilot of Pennsylvania's Framework for Leadership (Stated Briefly)

Moira McCullough, Stephen Lipscomb, Hanley Chiang, Brian Gill and Irina Cheban

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

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

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

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

Silvie Colman, Ted Joyce and Thomas Dee

Income Security for Workers: A Stressed Support System in Need of Innovation

David C. Stapleton, Richard Burkhauser, Peiyun She, Robert R. Weathers and Gina A. Livermore

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

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

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

Lisa Dragoset and Anne Gordon

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

How Individual and Environmental Factors Affect Employment Outcomes

Purvi Sevak and David C. Stapleton John O’Neill

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

Jacqueline Kauff, Thomas Fraker and Julita Milliner-Waddell

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

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

Medicare Advantage in Rural Areas: Experience Under the MMA

Marsha Gold

Effective Care Coordination: The Hard Evidence from the Field

Randall Brown

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

Nan L. Maxwell Ann E. Person and Editors

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

Peter Z. Schochet

An Exploration of Instructional Practices that Foster Language Development and Comprehension: Evidence from Prekindergarten through Grade 3 in Title I Schools

Hanley Chiang, Elias Walsh, Timothy Shanahan, Claudia Gentile, Alyssa Maccarone, Tiffany Waits, Barbara Carlson and Samuel Rikoon

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

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

Jane G. Fortson

Creating Paths to Father Involvement: Lessons from Early Head Start

Andrew Burwick and Jeanne Bellotti

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

Jonathan Brown and Nadia Bell

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

Rivka Weiser and Julia Embry

Evaluating Early Childhood Assessments: A Differential Analysis

Samuel J and Meisels Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

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

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

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Christopher Trenholm

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

Mathematica Policy Research and Public Health Institute

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

Anne Ciemnecki, Karen CyBulski and Judith Wooldridge

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

Angela Merrill, Megan McHugh, Liz Schott and Julie Darnell

Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) First Follow-Up Methodology Report

David DesRoches, Tom Barton, Frank Potter, Betsy Santos and Zhanyun Zhao

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

Food Stamps in Rural America: Special Issues and Common Themes

Sheena McConnell and James Ohls

Improving Employment Outcomes: Using Innovative Goal-Oriented Strategies in TANF Programs

Michelle Derr, Jonathan McCay and Jacqueline F. Kauff

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

Stacie Feldman, Purvi Sevak and Mira Wang

Analyzing Data on Paired Partners in Program Evaluation: Strategies to Overcome Common Challenges

Ankita Patnaik, Galena Rhoades, Quinn Moore and Brian Doss

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

HCBS Claims Analysis Chartbook: Final Report

Victoria Peebles, Min-Young Kim, Alex Bohl, Norberto Morales and Debra Lipson

2020 Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods

Jason Markesich, Stacie Feldman and William Rafferty

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

National Assessment of Title I Final Report Volume II: Closing the Reading Gap: Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers

Joseph Torgesen, Allen Schirm, Laura Castner, Sonya Vartivarian, Wendy Mansfield, David Myers, Fran Stancavage, Donna Durno, Rosanne Javorsky and Cinthia Haan

Implementation of the Teach For America Investing in Innovation Scale-Up

Marykate Zukiewicz, Melissa A. Clark and Libby Makowsky

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

Child Participation in WIC: Medicaid Costs and Use of Health Care Services

Paul A. Buescher, Stephanie J. Horton, J. Timothy Whitmire, Barbara L. Devaney, Sarah J. Roholt, Alice J. Lenihan and Jonathan B. Kotch

Two-Year Costs and Quality in the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

Stacy Berg Dale, Arkadipta Ghosh, Deborah N. Peikes, Timothy J. Day, Frank B. Yoon, Erin Fries Taylor, Kaylyn Swankoski, Ann S. O’Malley, Patrick H. Conway, Rahul Rajkumar, Matthew J. Press, Laura Sessums and Randall Brown

Compendium of Quality Rating Systems and Evaluations

Kathryn Tout, Rebecca Starr, Margaret Soli, Shannon Moodie, Gretchen Kirby and Kimberly Boller

Program Snapshot: Oklahoma's Practice Enhancement Assistants

Rachel M. Machta and Erin Fries Taylor

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

QRIS Research: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Kimberly Boller and Kelly Maxwell

CKF and Improved Enrollee Retention: Grantee and State Views on CKF Effectiveness

Judith Wooldridge and Elaine Hill

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

Relationship Between Physician Burnout and the Quality and Cost of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries is Complex

Lawrence P. Casalino, Jing Li, Lars E. Peterson, Diane Rittenhouse, Manyao Zhang, Eloise May O’Donnell and Robert L. Phillips

Baseline Findings from the Ananya Evaluation

Anu Rangarajan, Evan Borkum, Swetha Sridharan, Dana Rotz, Mercy Manoranjini, Seth Morgan, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Priyanka Chaman and G. Anil Kumar

Validation of the Child-Care Expense Equations in the MATH Model

Nancy Heiser

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

Hande Inanc

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

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

Money Follows the Person (MFP): Opportunities for Long-Term Care (LTC) Systems

Carol Irvin, Jeffrey Ballou and Audra Wenzlow

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

William S. Borden and Robbi L. Ruben-Urm

Does Job Corps Work? Summary of the National Job Corps Study

John Burghardt, Peter Z. Schochet, Sheena McConnell, Terry Johnson, R. Mark Gritz, Steven Glazerman, John Homrighausen and Russell Jackson

The Long-Term Effects of Building Strong Families: A Program for Unmarried Parents

Robert G. Wood, Quinn Moore, Andrew Clarkwest and Alexandra Killewald

The Net Effect: A Comparison of Internet and Mail Survey Respondents

Esther M. Friedman, Nancy A. Clusen and Michael Hartzell

A Practical Guide to Cluster Randomized Trials in School Health Research

Brian Goesling

Collecting Sensitive Information and Encouraging Reluctant Respondents

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

Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability (Presentation)

Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

Fresno: As Uninsured Rate Falls, Capacity Constraints Grow

Amanda Lechner, Laurie Felland, Cannon Warren and Annie Doubleday

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

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

Study of Federal Spending on Diabetes: Summaries of Federal Government Agencies and Their Relevant Activities

Marsha Gold, Ronette Briefel, Meredith Lee, Katherine Gruene Segersten, Melissa Neuman and Tara Krissik

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 Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Initiative (CPC+): First Annual Report, Findings at a Glance

Deborah Peikes, Grace Anglin, Mary Harrington, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kristin Geonnotti, Ann O'Malley, Stacy Dale, Sheila Hoag, Dana Petersen, Pragya Singh, Ha Tu, Laura Blue, Sean Orzol, Rosalind Keith, Anne Mutti, Genna Cohen, Tricia Higgins, Laurie Felland, Linda Barterian, Victoria Peebles, Amanda Lechner, Nikkilyn Morrison, Melanie Au, Jessica Laird, Grace Oh, Rachel Machta, Jasmine Little and Randall Brown

Professional Development Tools to Improve the Quality of Infant and Toddler Care: A Review of the Literature

Nikki Aikens, Lauren Akers and Sally Atkins-Burnett

The Community Ecocycle in Place-Based Systems Change: A Tool for Funder and Community Reflection and Action

Meg Long, Wanda Casillas and James Liou

Scaling Up Early Math Programs: Recommendations from a Study on Engaging Families with Early Math

Jaimie Grazi, Barbara Harris and Patricia Del Grosso

The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Short-Term Impacts

Allen Schirm, Núria Rodriguez-Planas, Myles Maxfield and Christina Clark Tuttle

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

Seven-Year Impacts of Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Program

Harounan Kazianga, Leigh Linden, Cara Orfield, Ali Protik and Matt Sloan

The Promise and Limitations of Employment Policies for Current SSI Recipients

Craig Thornton

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

Robert G. Wood

Build Organizational Capacity to Implement an Intervention

Christopher Jones and Karen Needels

Safe or Not? Consumer Responses to Recalls with Traceability

Chantal Toledo and Sofia Villas-Boas