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Program Snapshot: Oklahoma's Practice Enhancement Assistants

Rachel M. Machta and Erin Fries Taylor

PREP Performance Measures Fact Sheet: 2019-2020

Lara Hulsey, Lauren Murphy and Diletta Mittone

Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations: Evaluation Design Report

Quinn Moore, Sheena McConnell, Alan Werner, Tim Kautz, Kristen Joyce, Kelley Borradaile and Bethany Boland

Children with Special Health Care Needs in Commercial Plans

Shanna Shulman, Henry Ireys and Stephanie Peterson

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

Robert G. Wood

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

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

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

William S. Borden and Robbi L. Ruben-Urm

2020 Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods

Jason Markesich, Stacie Feldman and William Rafferty

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Process Study Report

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

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

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

Christian Geckeler and Laura Pryor

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 Work Experiences of New SSI Beneficiaries: A Longitudinal Perspective

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

Options for Expanding Coverage in Missouri: State Offer of a Small Group Product

Deborah Chollet and Su Liu

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

Todd C. Honeycutt and David Wittenburg

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

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

The Early Experience of the Georgetown Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program

Karen Sautter, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

Estimation and Identification of the Complier Average Causal Effect Parameter in Education RCTs

Peter Z. Schochet and Hanley S. Chiang

An Evaluation of SOAR: The Implementation and Outcomes of an Effort to Increase Access to SSI and SSDI

Jacqueline Kauff, Elizabeth Clary and Julia Lyskawa

Effects of Traditional Swaddling on Development: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Semira Manaseki-Holland, Elizabeth Spier, Bayasgalantai Bavuusuren, Tsogzolma Bayandorj, Susan Sprachman and Tom Marshall

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

Karen Needels, Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

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

Evan Borkum, Arif Mamun and Malik Khan Mubeen

National Job Corps Study: Job Corps Applicants' Programmatic Experiences

Terry Johnson, R. Mark Gritz and Mary Kay Dugan

QRIS Research: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Kimberly Boller and Kelly Maxwell

Six-Year Earnings and Disability Benefit Outcomes of Youth Vocational Rehabilitation Applicants

Frank H. Martin, Todd C. Honeycutt and Jeffrey Hemmeter

The Promise and Limitations of Employment Policies for Current SSI Recipients

Craig Thornton

The Impact of State Tort Reforms on Imaging Utilization

Suhui Evelyn Li, Avi Dors, Darwyyn Deyo and Danny Hughes

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

Meg Long, Wanda Casillas and James Liou

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

Young Social Security Disability Awardees: Who They Are and What They Do After Award

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David C. Stapleton

State Experiences Expanding Registered Apprenticeship: Findings from a Federal Grant Program

Samina Sattar, Jacqueline Kauff, Daniel Kuehn, Veronica Sotelo Munoz, Amanda Reiter and Kristin Wolff

Return-to-Work Outcomes Among Social Security Disability Insurance Program Beneficiaries

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and Arif A. Mamun

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

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Anthony Harris

The Relationship Between Timely Delivery of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Subsequent Federal Disability Benefit Application and Receipt

Jody Schimmel Hyde, Todd Honeycutt and David Stapleton

Results from the Administration on Aging's Third National Survey of Older Americans Act Program Participants

Jody Beauchamp and Lisa Trebino

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

Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Richard Strouse and John Hall

Balancing Fidelity and Flexibility: Implementing the Gen.M Program in Texas (Executive Summary)

Rachel Shapiro

Evaluation of the Military Base National Emergency Grants

Karen Needels, Jeanne Bellotti, Mina Dadgar and Walter Nicholson

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

Matthew Johnson, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

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

Sensitivity of Self-Reported Noncognitive Skills to Survey Administration Conditions

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

Safe or Not? Consumer Responses to Recalls with Traceability

Chantal Toledo and Sofia Villas-Boas

A Profile of the Educational Opportunity Centers Program: 1999-2000

Justin Humphrey and Nancy Carey

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

Strategies for Promoting Prevention and Improving Oral Health Care Delivery in Head Start: Findings from the Oral Health Initiative Evaluation

Patricia Del Grosso, Amy Brown, Sandra Silva, Jamila Henderson, Naomi Tein and Diane Paulsell

Imposing a Time Limit on Food Stamp Receipt: Implementation of the Provisions and Effects on Food Stamp Program Participation, Volume I

John L. Czajka, Sheena McConnell, Scott Cody and Nuria Rodriguez

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

Evaluating a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Middle School Boys

Brian Goesling and Robert G. Wood

Responses to Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs): Findings from the Demonstration States

Gretchen Kirby, Margaret Sullivan, Elizabeth Potamites, Jackie Kauff, Elizabeth Clary and Charles McGlew

Lessons Learned from Leading Models of Practice Facilitation

Erin Fries Taylor, Lyndee Knox, Dana Petersen, Kristin Geonnotti and Rachel Machta

Compendium of Quality Rating Systems and Evaluations

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

Impacts of the Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot

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

Enrollment Patterns and Medical Expenditures for Medicaid Buy-In Participants in Five States

Su Liu, Henry T. Ireys, Justin S. White and William Black

The Earnings Consequences of the Americans with Disabilities Act on People with Disabilities

Allison V. Thompkins

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

Hanley Chiang, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

From National Disability Data Disorder to National Disability Data System?

David Stapleton

Growing America Through Entrepreneurship

Jeanne Bellotti, Sheena McConnell and Jacob Benus

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

Promoting Educator Effectiveness: The Effects of Two Key Strategies

Andrew Wayne, Michael Garet, Alison Wellington and Hanley Chiang

Identifying Medicare Beneficiaries with Disabilities: Improving on Claims-Based Algorithms

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

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

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

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

Trends in USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2015 (Summary)

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

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

David Stapleton and Gina Livermore

ESAP State Enrollment Data Collection Project

Andrew Gothro, Kelsey Chesnut, Mindy Hu and Ronette Briefel

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

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

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship Between Psychiatric Nurses' Perceptions of Workload and Unit Activity

Angela M. Gerolamo

Universal Mental Health Screening in Pediatric Primary Care: A Systematic Review

Lawrence S. Wissow, Jonathan Brown, Kate E. Fothergill, Anne Gadomski, Karen Hacker, Peter Salmon and Rachel Zelkowitz

Effects of Misclassification of Race/Ethnicity Categories in Sampling Stratification Affects Survey Estimates

Donsig Jang, Amang Sukasih, Xiaojing Lin, Kelly H. Kang and Stephen H. Cohen

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

Matt Sloan and Debra Wright

Factors Associated with Parental COVID-19 Vaccination Acceptance

Mia C. Letterie, Stephen W. Patrick, Alese E. Halvorson, William D. Dupont, Kecia N. Carroll, Joseph Zickafoose and Sarah E. Williams

Making Do With Less: Interpreting the Evidence from Recent Federal Evaluations of Dropout-Prevention Programs

Mark Dynarski

Availability and Perceived Effectiveness of Public Health Activities in the Nation's Most Populous Communities

Glen P. Mays, Paul K. Halverson, Edward L. Baker, Rachel Stevens and Julie J. Vann

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

Ankita Patnaik, Galena Rhoades, Quinn Moore and Brian Doss

The Role of Randomized Experiments in Employment and Training Evaluation

Rebecca Maynard

Promising Findings from the Frontline Health Worker Team-Based Goals and Incentives Intervention in Bihar

Dana Rotz, Anu Rangarajan, Evan Borkum Swetha Sridharan, Sukhmani Sethi and Mercy Manoranjini

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

Using Propensity Scoring to Estimate Program-Related Subgroup Impacts in Experimental Program Evaluations

Peter Z. Schochet and John Burghardt

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

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

New Evidence on the Role of Provider Business Model in the Economic Viability of Employment Networks Under Ticket to Work

Jody Schimmel

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

Gina Livermore, David Stapleton and Henry Claypool

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

Mark Strayer, Joshua Leftin and Esa Eslami

Patterns of Employment and Allowances for Disability Insurance Applicants

Kara Contreary, Todd Honeycutt, Michelle Bailey and Joseph Mastrianni

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

James M. Verdier

Sharing and Accessing Administrative Data: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned from the Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages Project

Beth Varley and Claire Smither Wulsin

Seeds to Success Modified Field Test Evaluation: Impact and Implementation Findings

Kimberly Boller and Patricia Del Grosso

How States Can Better Understand Their Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees: A Guide to Using CMS Data Resources

Danielle Chelminsky

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Food Security Survey: Impacts of Urbanicity and Food Access on Food Security (Summary)

James Mabli

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

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

Case Study of Father Engagement in Family Nutrition and Health Programs: California WIC Association

Danielle DeLisle, Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

Aging in Place: Do Older Americans Act Title III Services Reach Those Most Likely to Enter Nursing Homes?

Norma Altshuler and Jody Schimmel

State of Oklahoma. Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges

Allison Logie and Liz Schott

Evaluation of the National School Lunch Program Application/Verification Pilot Projects, Volume IV: Analysis of Pilot Operations and Costs

John Burghardt, Tania Tasse and James Ohls

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

Assessing the Research on Home Visiting Program Models Implemented in Tribal Communities, Part 2: Lessons Learned about Implementation and Evaluation

Andrea Mraz Esposito, Rebecca Coughlin, Armando Yanez, Emily Sama-Miller, Patricia Del Grosso, Rebecca Kleinman and Diane Paulsell

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