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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

Ticket to Work Participants: Then and Now

Crystal Blyler, Denise Hoffman and Gina Livermore

Seven-Year Impacts of Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Program

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

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 Profile of the Educational Opportunity Centers Program: 1999-2000

Justin Humphrey and Nancy Carey

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

Mark Strayer, Joshua Leftin and Esa Eslami

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

HCBS Claims Analysis Chartbook: Final Report

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

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

Matt Sloan and Debra Wright

Risk Factors Associated with Disability Following Work-Related Injuries

Nan L. Maxwell and Nathan Wozny

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

Price and Income Elasticity of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care Services: A Critical Review of the Literature

Su Liu and Deborah Chollet

Racial Variation in Vocational Rehabilitation Outcomes: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Frank H. Martin

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

Steven Glazerman and Neil Seftor

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

Peter Z. Schochet and John Burghardt

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

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

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

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

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

Safe or Not? Consumer Responses to Recalls with Traceability

Chantal Toledo and Sofia Villas-Boas

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

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

Elizabeth Brown, Gretchen G. Kirby and Kara Conroy

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

Susan Sprachman, Margaret Caspe and Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

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

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

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

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

Holly Greuling, Susan Jenkins, James Mabli and Jessica Ziegler

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

Carol Irvin, Jeffrey Ballou and Audra Wenzlow

Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES): 2006 Cohort User Guide

Jerry West, Nikki Aikens, Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Cassandra Meagher, Lizabeth Malone, Anne Bloomenthal, Annalee Kelly, Kristina Rall and Rita Zota

Developing a Program to Increase Geropsychology Competencies of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Psychologists

J.W. Terri Huh, Rachel Rodriguez, Christine E. Gould, Sarah R. Brunskill, Luis Melendez and B. Josea Kramer

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

Hande Inanc

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

Christian Geckeler and Laura Pryor

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

Angela Valdovinos D’Angelo and Katie Bodenlos

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

Supporting Family Caregivers Through Title III of the OAA

Leslie Foster and Rebecca Kleinman

Pre-Application Activities of Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants

Todd Honeycutt, Allison Thompkins and Michelle Bailey

Helping You Take Care of Yourself Men of Color Prostate Health Workshops

Laura Ruttner, Irina Cheban and So O'Neil

The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Short-Term Impacts

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

Impacts of a Large-Scale Agricultural Training Program in Armenia

Kenneth Fortson, Randall Blair, Joanne Lee and Anu Rangarajan

National Job Corps Study: Job Corps Applicants' Programmatic Experiences

Terry Johnson, R. Mark Gritz and Mary Kay Dugan

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

Morocco Land Productivity Project: Evaluation Design Report

Anthony Harris, Anthony D'Agostino, Sara Litke-Farzaneh, Beryl Seiler and Matt Sloan

Study of Enhanced College Advising in Upward Bound: Impacts on Where and How Long Students Attend College

Tamara Linkow, Amanda Parsad, Alina Martinez and Hannah Miller

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

Robert G. Wood

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

Allen L. Schirm and Laura A. Castner

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

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

Danielle DeLisle, Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

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

Does What Gets Measured Get Done? An Evaluation of the Impact of the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories on City Climate Action

Anthony D'Agostino, Alejandra Nicte Aponte, Sam Studnitzer, Eva Ward and Anu Rangarajan

The "Interactions and Developmental Processes" Study of the Teenage Parent Demonstration Project: Volume 1, Final Report

J. Lawrence Aber, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Lisa J. Berlin, George J. Carcagno, Susan Sprachman, Christine Ross and Rebecca Maynard

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

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Anthony Harris

How Disability Beneficiaries Fared Before and After the Great Recession

Gina Livermore and Maura Bardos

Designing Services for Youth and Young Adults At-Risk of Homelessness: Initial and Ongoing Implementation of YARH Grantees’ Comprehensive Service Models

Rosalind Keith, Nuzhat Islam, Rumin Sarwar and Cay Bradley

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

David Wittenburg and Sandi Nelson

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

Using Paradata for Instrument Evaluation and Refinement (Presentation)

Amanda Reiter and Sarah Forrestal

Findings from the Impact Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Programme

Dan Levy and Jim Ohls

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

Peter Z. Schochet and Hanley S. Chiang

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

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

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

Allison Logie and Liz Schott

One-Third of Family Physicians Remain in Independently Owned Practice, 2017–2019

Diane Rittenhouse, Andrew W. Bazemore, Zachary J. Morgan and Lars E. Peterson

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

Mark Dynarski

National and State Trends in Autistic Adult Supplemental Security Income Awardees: 2005–2019

Kristy A. Anderson, Jeffrey Hemmeter, David Wittenburg, Julia Baller, Anne M. Roux, Jessica E. Rast and Paul Shattuck

Within-Compound Versus Public Latrine Access and Child Feces Disposal Practices in Low-Income Neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana

Rebecca Lyn Ritter, Dorothy Peprah, Clair Null, Christine L. Moe, George Armah, Joseph Ampofo, Nii Wellington, Habib Yakubu, Katharine Robb, Amy E. Kirby, Yuke Wang, Katherine Roguski, Heather Reese, Chantal A. Agbemabiese, Lady Asantewa B. Adomako and Matthew C. Freeman Kelly K. Baker

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

David Stapleton and Gina Livermore

Microlending in India: An Equal Access Possibility

Allison V. Thompkins

Dynamics of Parental Opioid Use and Children's Health and Well-Being: An Integrative Systems Mapping Approach

Jessica C. Smith, Leigh Alderman, Brandon K. Attell, Wendy Avila Rodriguez, Jana Covington, Brigitte Manteuffel, Ann M. DiGirolamo, Susan M. Snyder and Karen Minyard

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

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

Rachel Shapiro

Assessing the Need for Evidence-Based Home Visiting: EBHV Experience of EBHV Grantees

Diane Paulsell and Brandon Coffee-Borden

Fresno: As Uninsured Rate Falls, Capacity Constraints Grow

Amanda Lechner, Laurie Felland, Cannon Warren and Annie Doubleday

Outcomes of Cancer Surgeries

Eric Schone

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

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

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

Matthew Johnson, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

Early Educators’ Collective Workplace Stress as a Predictor of Professional Development’s Impacts on Children’s Development

Emily C. Hanno, Dana C. McCoy, Terri J. Sabol and Kathryn E. Gonzalez

Breaking Down the Numbers: What Does COVID-19 Mean for Youth Unemployment?

Hande Inanc

2020 Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods

Jason Markesich, Stacie Feldman and William Rafferty

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

Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of the Job Corps

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

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

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

Karen Needels, Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson

Impacts of the Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot

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

Cost-Effectiveness of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses

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

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

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

LaDonna Pavetti, Linda Rosenberg and Michelle K. Derr

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

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

Beth Varley and Claire Smither Wulsin

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

Marykate Zukiewicz, Melissa A. Clark and Libby Makowsky

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

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

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

Ronette R. Briefel

Has Treatment for Substance Use Disorders Increased?

Ellen Bouchery

New Medicaid Drug Use and Cost Data Highlight Issues for States After Medicare Part D

James Verdier, Ann Bagchi and Dominick Esposito

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

Ann S. O'Malley

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

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

MIRROR-TCM: Multisite Replication of a Randomized Controlled Trial - Transitional Care Model

Mary D. Naylor, Karen B. Hirschman, Kathleen McCauley, Elizabeth C. Shaid, Alexandra L. Hanlon, Christina R. Whitehouse, Arkadipta Ghosh, Randall Brown, Brianna Sullivan and Mark V. Pauly

Workers' Recall Expectations and Their Implications for Worker Profiling

Nuria Rodriguez