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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

Vitamin B-12 Concentrations in Breast Milk Are Low and Are Not Associated with Reported Household Hunger, Recent Animal-Source Food, or Vitamin B-12 Intake in Women in Rural Kenya

Anne M. Williams, Caroline J. Chantry, Sera L. Young, Beryl S. Achando, Lindsay H. Allen, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford, Jr., Holly N. Dentz, Daniela Hampel, Marion C. Kiprotich, Audrie Lin, Clair A. Null, Geoffrey M. Nyambane, Setti Shahab-Ferdows and Christine P. Stewart

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

Jenna Libersky and James Verdier

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

2014 Facts and Findings

Mathematica Policy Research

State Partnership Initiative: Synthesis of Impact Estimates Generated by the State Projects' Evaluations

Deborah Peikes and Ankur Sarin

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

The State of Teacher Induction in Urban America

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

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

Sukey Leshnick and Sarah Thomason

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

Christopher Trenholm

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

James Verdier and Allison Barrett

The Role of Goal Setting in Integrated Service Delivery

Mary Anne Anderson, Lindsay Ochoa, Margaret Sullivan and Nan Maxwell

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

Kelsey Farson Gray

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

Coordinating Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Early Experiences of 15 Demonstration Programs, Their Patients, and Providers (Appendix A)

Randall Brown, Jennifer Schore, Nancy Archibald, Arnold Chen, Deborah Peikes, Karen Sautter, Sherry Aliotta and Todd Ensor

Unexpected Arrivals: The Spillover Effects of Mid-Year Entry on Stable Student Achievement in New York City

Emilyn Ruble Whitesell, Leanna Stiefel and Amy Schwartz

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

Karen Needels and Annalisa Mastri

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

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

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

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Brenna Rabel

Strategic Engagement of Policymakers Is Key to Advancing a Children's Health Care Coverage Policy Agenda

Debra Draper, Laurie Felland, Ian Hill and Sara Hogan

Patient Dismissal by Primary Care Practices (Journal Article)

Ann O’Malley, Kaylyn Swankoski, Deborah Peikes, Jesse Crosson, Nancy Duda, Timothy Day and Shannon Heitkamp

Supporting Parents with Child Care During Training

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

Creating Paths to Father Involvement: Lessons from Early Head Start

Andrew Burwick and Jeanne Bellotti

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

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephaine McLeod

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

Samuel E. Simon and Matthew R. Hodges

SCHIP in Ohio: Evolution and Outlook for the Future

Carol Irvin, Nancy Fasciano and Margo Rosenbach

KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes

Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Alexandra Resch

Differences in Enrollee Outcomes Among Medicaid Managed Care Organizations

Lorenzo Moreno and Sheila Hoag

Medicare Advantage 2015 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update

Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman and Marsha Gold

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

Thinking Through Evaluation Design Options

Barbara Devaney and Peter Rossi

A Guide to Real-World Evaluations of Primary Care Interventions: Some Practical Advice

Deborah Peikes, Erin Fries Taylor, Janice Genevro and David Meyers

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

Draft Medicaid Access Tool

Bridget Bernick

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

Assessment of SNAP Unit Simulation

John Czajka

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

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

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

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Megan McHugh. Embry Howell

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

Beth Stevens, Bridget Lavin and Valerie Cheh

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

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold, Cheryl Young and Beth Stevens

Effects of Water Quality, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutritional Interventions on Child Development in Rural Kenya (WASH Benefits Kenya): A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial

Christine P. Stewart, Patricia Kariger, Lia Fernald, Amy J. Pickering, Charles D. Arnold, Benjamin F. Arnold, Alan E. Hubbard, Holly N. Dentz, Audrie Lin, Theodora J. Meerkerk, Erin Milner, Jenna Swarthout, John M. Colford, Jr. and Clair Null

The Atlanta Public Schools Turnaround Strategy After One Year: High Impact Tutoring and the Purpose Built Schools Partnership

Kristin Hallgren, Naihobe Gonzalez, Jane Choi, Kevin Kelly, Annie Li, Lindsay Ochoa, Breanna Wakar and Brian Gill

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

Emily Wiegand, Robert Goerge and Leah Gjertson

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

Karen E. Cunnyngham

Districts and Data: Developing Capacity for Effective Data Use

Cassie Pickens Jewell, Libby Makowsky and Kristin Hallgren

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

David Wittenburg

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

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

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

Elizabeth Brown, Kara Conroy and Gretchen G. Kirby

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

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

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

Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker

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

Measuring Incentives and Deterrents to Participation in Adult Education

Tim Silva

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

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

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

Vocational Rehabilitation Program Evaluation Coach Toolkit

Mathematica Staff

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

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

Evaluation of the Military Base National Emergency Grants

Karen Needels, Jeanne Bellotti, Mina Dadgar and Walter Nicholson

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

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

Build Organizational Capacity to Implement an Intervention

Christopher Jones and Karen Needels

The Early Experience of the Carle Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program

Arnold Chen

Early Care, Early Education, and Home Visiting in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Design Options for Assessing Early Childhood Needs

Lizabeth Malone, Emily Knas, Michael Cavanaugh and Jerry West

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

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

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

Ankita Patnaik, Galena Rhoades, Quinn Moore and Brian Doss

Outreach and Communication with Practitioners about Measures and Research: Development and Use of a Compendium and Consumer's Guide

Patricia Lozano, Christine Ong, Sandra Barrueco, Michael L. López and Katie Fallin

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program: State Implementation Progress, School Year 2010-2011: Report to Congress (Summary)

Quinn Moore, Kevin Conway and Brandon Kyler

Children with Special Health Care Needs in Commercial Plans

Shanna Shulman, Henry Ireys and Stephanie Peterson

Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS): 1999 Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

Ronette R. Briefel

The New Jersey Graduated Work Incentive Experiment

David Kershaw and Felicity Skidmore

National Public Engagement Campaign on Chronic Illness Physician Survey

Anne B. Ciemnecki, Nuria Diaz-Tena, Julie Fishtein and Frank Potter

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

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

Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of the Job Corps

David A. Long, Charles D. Mallar and Craig Thornton

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

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

Allen L. Schirm and Laura A. Castner

Developing Pathways to Justice and Emergency Services Careers for At-Risk Youth: A Formative Evaluation

Christian Geckeler and Laura Pryor

Solving the Sustainable Growth Rate Formula Conundrum Continues Steps Toward Cost Savings and Care Improvements

James D. Reschovsky, Larisa Converse and Eugene C. Rich

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

Data Tables for FACES 2009 Head Start Children, Families, and Programs: Present and Past Data from FACES Report

Nikki Aikens, Lara Kristin Hulsey, Emily Moiduddin, Ashley Kopack, Amy Takyi-Laryea, Louisa Tarullo and Jerry West

The Community Tracking Study: Measuring Changes in the U.S. Health Care System Over Time

Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Richard Strouse and John Hall

Innovating VR Services to Improve Outcomes for SSDI Clients: Findings from the SGA Project Demonstration (Research Brief)

Matthew Kehn, Gina Livermore and Eric Morris

Lessons Learned from the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review

Sarah Avellar and Diane Paulsell

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

Using National Statistics to Increase Transparency of Large Land Acquisition: Evidence from Ethiopia

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Anthony Harris

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

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

Angela Valdovinos D’Angelo and Katie Bodenlos

The Work Experiences of New SSI Beneficiaries: A Longitudinal Perspective

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

Impacts of Scholarships for Vocational Training in Namibia: Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial (Issue Brief)

Evan Borkum, Arif Mamun and Malik Khan Mubeen

Well-Being of Parents and Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey

Stephen W. Patrick, Laura E. Henkhaus, Joseph S. Zickafoose, Kim Lovell, Alese Halvorson, Sarah Loch, Mia Letterie and Matthew M. Davis

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

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

National Job Corps Study: Methodological Appendixes on the Impact Analysis

Peter Z. Schochet

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

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

Eugene C. Rich, Tim Lake and Christal Stone Valenzano

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

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