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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

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

Richard G. Luecking and David Wittenburg

National Job Corps Study: Methodological Appendixes on the Impact Analysis

Peter Z. Schochet

The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Prices and Product Availability

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

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

Holly Greuling, Susan Jenkins, James Mabli and Jessica Ziegler

Impacts of the Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot

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

Fresno: As Uninsured Rate Falls, Capacity Constraints Grow

Amanda Lechner, Laurie Felland, Cannon Warren and Annie Doubleday

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

Seven-Year Impacts of Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Program

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

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

David Wittenburg and Sandi Nelson

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth Brown, Gretchen G. Kirby and Kara Conroy

Safe or Not? Consumer Responses to Recalls with Traceability

Chantal Toledo and Sofia Villas-Boas

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

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

Frank H. Martin

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

Norma Altshuler and Jody Schimmel

Workers' Recall Expectations and Their Implications for Worker Profiling

Nuria Rodriguez

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

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

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

Allen L. Schirm and Laura A. Castner

Findings from the Impact Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Programme

Dan Levy and Jim Ohls

2020 Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods

Jason Markesich, Stacie Feldman and William Rafferty

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

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

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

The Challenges of Measuring Performance

William S. Borden

WISEWOMAN Best Practices Toolkit: Lessons Learned from Selected Projects

Melanie Besculides, Heather Zaveri and Charlotte Hanson

Design Options for an Impact Evaluation of the Participant Assistance Program

Annalisa Mastri, Jeanne Bellotti, Julie Bruch, Grace Roemer and Beenu Puri

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

Judith Wooldridge and Elaine Hill

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

Beth Varley and Claire Smither Wulsin

Using Paradata for Instrument Evaluation and Refinement (Presentation)

Amanda Reiter and Sarah Forrestal

Promoting Educator Effectiveness: The Effects of Two Key Strategies

Andrew Wayne, Michael Garet, Alison Wellington and Hanley Chiang

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

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

Growing America Through Entrepreneurship

Jeanne Bellotti, Sheena McConnell and Jacob Benus

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

Danielle DeLisle, Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

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

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

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

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

James Mabli

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

Mark Strayer, Joshua Leftin and Esa Eslami

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

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

The Promise and Limitations of Employment Policies for Current SSI Recipients

Craig Thornton

Baseline Equivalence: What it is and Why it is Needed

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hande Inanc

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

Rachel Shapiro

Vocational Rehabilitation Program Evaluation Coach Toolkit

Mathematica Staff

A Guide to the PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Framework and Toolkit

Mathematica Policy Research

Preventing Rapid Repeat Births Among Adolescent Mothers: Implementing Steps to Success in San Angelo, Texas

Ellen Eliason Kisker, Jacqueline Berman, Amy Blasberg and Robert G. Wood

The New Jersey Medicaid Program: Some Comparisons to Other States

James M. Verdier

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

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

All-Cause Mortality Reductions from Measles Catchup Campaigns in Africa

Ariel BenYishay and Keith Kranker

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

Jaimie Grazi, Barbara Harris and Patricia Del Grosso

Insuring the Uninsured: Finding the Road to Success

Deborah Chollet

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

Robert G. Wood

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

LaDonna Pavetti, Linda Rosenberg and Michelle K. Derr

Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of the Job Corps

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

Collecting Sensitive Information and Encouraging Reluctant Respondents

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

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

Sensitivity of Self-Reported Noncognitive Skills to Survey Administration Conditions

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

Supporting Family Caregivers Through Title III of the OAA

Leslie Foster and Rebecca Kleinman

A Practical Guide to Cluster Randomized Trials in School Health Research

Brian Goesling

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

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

Supporting Expectant and Parenting Teens: New Evidence to Inform Future Programming and Research

Jessica F. Harding, Susan Zief, Amy Farb and Amy Margolis

ESAP State Enrollment Data Collection Project

Andrew Gothro, Kelsey Chesnut, Mindy Hu and Ronette Briefel

Evidence-Based Policy: U.S. Perspectives

Mark Dynarski

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

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

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

Steven Glazerman and Neil Seftor

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

Patterns of Employment and Allowances for Disability Insurance Applicants

Kara Contreary, Todd Honeycutt, Michelle Bailey and Joseph Mastrianni

A Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Response in Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities: Final Report

Patricia Rowan, Reena Gupta, Rebecca Lester, Michael Levere, Kristie Liao, Jenna Libersky, Debra Lipson, Andrea Wysocki, Julie Robison and Patricia Bowen

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

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

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

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

Peter Z. Schochet and John Burghardt

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

Reducing Early Childhood Tooth Decay: An Overview for State Policymakers

Leslie Foster, Meg Booth and Colin Reusch

The Early Experience of the Georgetown Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program

Karen Sautter, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

From National Disability Data Disorder to National Disability Data System?

David Stapleton

Lessons Learned from the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review

Sarah Avellar and Diane Paulsell

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Schore and Joy Gianolio

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

National Job Corps Study: Job Corps Applicants' Programmatic Experiences

Terry Johnson, R. Mark Gritz and Mary Kay Dugan

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

Marykate Zukiewicz, Melissa A. Clark and Libby Makowsky

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

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

An Evaluation of the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) in Chicago: Year One Impact Report

Steven Glazerman, Allison McKie and Nancy Carey

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

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

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