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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

Draft Medicaid Access Tool

Bridget Bernick

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

Anu Rangarajan and Tim Novak

SCHIP in Ohio: Evolution and Outlook for the Future

Carol Irvin, Nancy Fasciano and Margo Rosenbach

Effective Employment Services for Persons with Mental Retardation

Paul T. Decker and Craig Thornton

Differences in Enrollee Outcomes Among Medicaid Managed Care Organizations

Lorenzo Moreno and Sheila Hoag

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

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Brenna Rabel

Effective Care Coordination: The Hard Evidence from the Field

Randall Brown

PREP Performance Indicators: Youth Participants’ Characteristics and Outcomes

Lara Hulsey, Susan Zief and Lauren Murphy

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

Predictors of Long-Term Recovery in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: Data from a 22-Year Longitudinal Study

Debra L. Franko, Nassim Tabri, Aparna Keshaviah, Helen B. Murray, David B. Herzog, Jennifer J. Thomas, Kathryn Coniglio, Pamela K. Keel and Kamryn T. Eddy

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

Tim Kautz and Quinn Moore

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

Sarah Dolfin and Peter Z. Schochet

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

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Reopening Schools Safely: New Evidence on Mitigating COVID-19 Spread

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

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

Mary T. Moore and Tim Silva

Food Stamp Participants' Access to Food Retailers

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

Massachusetts Homeless Triage Assessment

James Mabli and Hande Inanc

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

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

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

Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Carlson

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

Emily Wiegand, Robert Goerge and Leah Gjertson

National Beneficiary Survey Round 1: Public Use File Codebook

Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones

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

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

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

Rivka Weiser and Julia Embry

A Guide to Using the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool

Lee-Lee Ellis, Rachel Kogan and Laura Hanson

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

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

Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker

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

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

Evidence Snapshot: Financial Incentives

Jillian Stein and Dana Rotz

What Have We Learned Using Merged Administrative Data from the Social Security Administration and the Rehabilitation Services Administration?

David Stapleton and Frank Martin

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

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

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

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

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

Jessica F. Harding and Diane Paulsell

Money Follows the Person: Change in Participant Experience During the First Year of Community Living

Samuel E. Simon and Matthew R. Hodges

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

Peter Z. Schochet and John Deke

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

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

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

Charter Schools and the Public Interest

Philip Gleason and Helen Ladd

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

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

Sonya Streeter

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

Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees: 2005-2007

David K. Baugh and Shinu Verghese

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

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

Angela Merrill, Megan McHugh, Liz Schott and Julie Darnell

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

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

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

2014 Facts and Findings

Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

The Child SSI Program and the Changing Safety Net

David Wittenburg, John Tambornino, Elizabeth Brown, Gretchen Rowe, Mason DeCamillis and Gilbert Crouse

HCBS Claims Analysis Chartbook: Final Report

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

Improving Primary Health Care Delivery in Bihar, India: Learning from Piloting and Statewide Scale-Up of Ananya

Gary L. Darmstadt, Kevin T. Pepper, Victoria C. Ward, Sridhar Srikantiah, Tanmay Mahapatra, Usha Kiran Tarigopula, Debarshi Bhattacharya, Laili Irani, Janine Schooley, Indrajit Chaudhuri, Priyanka Dutt, Padmapriya Sastry, Radharani Mitra, Sara Chamberlain, Sophia Monaghan, Priya Nanda, Yamini Atmavilas, Niranjan Saggurti, Evan Borkum, Anu Rangarajan, Kala M Mehta, Safa Abdalla, Jess Wilhelm, Yingjie Weng, Suzan L. Carmichael, Hina Raheel, Jason Bentley, Wolfgang A. Munar, Andreea Creanga, Shamik Trehan, Dilys Walker and Hemant Shah

Informal Caregivers Research Project (INCARE): Key Informant Interview Protocol

M. Hu, C. Jacobs Johnson, J. Thomas, K. Boller and M. Young

A Practical Guide to Cluster Randomized Trials in School Health Research

Brian Goesling

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

Nancy Heiser

Dietary Methodology Advancements in the Development of Short Instruments to Assess Dietary Fat

Ronette R. Briefel

After Two Years, Three Elementary Math Curricula Outperform a Fourth (Technical Appendix)

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

Supporting Family Caregivers Through Title III of the OAA

Leslie Foster and Rebecca Kleinman

Developing Income-Related Statistics on Federal Disability Beneficiaries Using Nationally Representative Survey Data

Jody Schimmel Hyde, Sarah Croake, Alex Bryce and Matt Messel

Impacts of a Large-Scale Agricultural Training Program in Armenia

Kenneth Fortson, Randall Blair, Joanne Lee and Anu Rangarajan

The Early Experience of the Carle Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program

Arnold Chen

Understanding Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Caseloads After Passage of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

LaDonna Pavetti, Linda Rosenberg and Michelle K. Derr

Lessons Learned from the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review

Sarah Avellar and Diane Paulsell

Rate the Leader: A Different Perspective on Principal Evaluation

Menbere Shiferaw and Whitney Kozakowski

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

Final Report for the Evaluation of the Florida Alternative Health Plan Project

Jennifer Schore and Joy Gianolio

Medicaid Expansion Reduced Uncompensated Care Costs at Louisiana Hospitals: May be a Model for Other States

Kevin Callison, Brigham Walker, Charles Stoecker, Jeral Self and Mark L. Diana

Medicare Advantage (MA) Within a Strengthened Medicare Program

Marsha Gold

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

The NIH Intramural Research Loan Repayment Program: Career Outcomes of Participants and Nonparticipants

Steven Glazerman and Neil Seftor

Trade Adjustment Assistance

Walter Corson

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

Delivering Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Services to High-Risk Youth: Implementing Teen Choice in New York

Rachel Shapiro, Robert G. Wood, Jean Knab and Lauren Murphy

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

Using Paradata for Instrument Evaluation and Refinement (Presentation)

Amanda Reiter and Sarah Forrestal

On the Road to Universal Children's Health Coverage: An Interim Report on the KidsWell Campaign

Sheila Hoag, Debra Lipson and Victoria Peebles

Seven-Year Impacts of Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Program

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

Evidence-Based Policy: U.S. Perspectives

Mark Dynarski

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

The First National Survey of Local School-To-Work Partnerships: Data Summary

Marsha Silverberg

Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance: The 2010 Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) Grantees After Three Years (Study Snapshot)

Alison Wellington, Hanley Chiang, Kristin Hallgren, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann and Paul Burkander

Paying Wisely: Reforming Incentives to Promote Evidence-Based Decisions at the Point of Care

Eugene C. Rich, Tim Lake and Christal Stone Valenzano

Providing Supports to Youth with Disabilities Transitioning to Adulthood: Case Descriptions from the Youth Transition Demonstration (Journal Article)

Richard G. Luecking and David Wittenburg

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

Effects of E-Mailed Versus Mailed Invitations and Incentives on Response Rates, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of University Faculty

Jennifer Dykema, John Stevenson, Lisa Klein, Yujin Kim and Brendan Day

Child and Family Outcomes During the Head Start Year: FACES 2014-2015 Data Tables and Study Design

Nikki Aikens, Ashley Kopack Klein, Emily Knas, Jacob Hartog, Mikia Manley, Lizabeth Malone, Louisa Tarullo and Serge Lukashanets

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

Eugene C. Rich

Pre-Application Activities of Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants

Todd Honeycutt, Allison Thompkins and Michelle Bailey

Findings from the Impact Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Programme

Dan Levy and Jim Ohls

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

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

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

Angela Valdovinos D’Angelo and Katie Bodenlos

Aligning Federal Performance Indicators Across Programs Promoting Self-Sufficiency: Key Considerations for Policymakers

Elizabeth Brown, Gretchen G. Kirby and Kara Conroy

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

How to Deliver Care Management: Guidance from an Analysis of Communication Patterns in Primary Care

Ann S. O'Malley

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

Build Organizational Capacity to Implement an Intervention

Christopher Jones and Karen Needels