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

Norma Altshuler and Jody Schimmel

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

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

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

Deborah Chollet and Su Liu

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

Diane Paulsell and Brandon Coffee-Borden

Evaluating a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Middle School Boys

Brian Goesling and Robert G. Wood

Children with Special Health Care Needs in Commercial Plans

Shanna Shulman, Henry Ireys and Stephanie Peterson

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

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

Marykate Zukiewicz, Melissa A. Clark and Libby Makowsky

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

Mark Dynarski

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

HCBS Claims Analysis Chartbook: Final Report

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

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

Allison V. Thompkins

Using Paradata for Instrument Evaluation and Refinement (Presentation)

Amanda Reiter and Sarah Forrestal

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

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

Effects of Traditional Swaddling on Development: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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

National Job Corps Study: Methodological Appendixes on the Impact Analysis

Peter Z. Schochet

Sensitivity of Self-Reported Noncognitive Skills to Survey Administration Conditions

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

Quebec’s Paid Parental Leave and the “Daddy Quotaâ€: Effects on Housework, Child Care, and Paid Work (Presentation)

Ankita Patnaik

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and Arif A. Mamun

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

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

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

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

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

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

Angela Valdovinos D’Angelo and Katie Bodenlos

Has Treatment for Substance Use Disorders Increased?

Ellen Bouchery

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

Evan Borkum, Arif Mamun and Malik Khan Mubeen

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

Jody Beauchamp and Lisa Trebino

Evaluation of the Military Base National Emergency Grants

Karen Needels, Jeanne Bellotti, Mina Dadgar and Walter Nicholson

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David C. Stapleton

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

Hande Inanc

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

Promoting Educator Effectiveness: The Effects of Two Key Strategies

Andrew Wayne, Michael Garet, Alison Wellington and Hanley Chiang

Trade Adjustment Assistance

Walter Corson

Evaluation of the National School Lunch Program Application/Verification Pilot Projects, Volume III: Impacts on Participation

Philip Gleason, Lara Hulsey and John Burghardt

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

Frank H. Martin

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

James M. Verdier

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

Danielle Chelminsky

Treatment and Outcomes for Congestive Heart Failure by Race/Ethnicity in TRICARE

Ann D. Bagchi, Kate Stewart, Catherine McLaughlin, Patricia Higgins and Thomas Croghan

Special Needs Plans: Availability and Enrollment

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

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

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

The New Jersey Medicaid Program: Some Comparisons to Other States

James M. Verdier

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

Holly Greuling, Susan Jenkins, James Mabli and Jessica Ziegler

Build Organizational Capacity to Implement an Intervention

Christopher Jones and Karen Needels

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

Eugene C. Rich

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

Hanley Chiang, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

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

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

Two-Year Costs and Quality in the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

Stacy Berg Dale, Arkadipta Ghosh, Deborah N. Peikes, Timothy J. Day, Frank B. Yoon, Erin Fries Taylor, Kaylyn Swankoski, Ann S. O’Malley, Patrick H. Conway, Rahul Rajkumar, Matthew J. Press, Laura Sessums and Randall Brown

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

Nancy Heiser

Program Snapshot: Oklahoma's Practice Enhancement Assistants

Rachel M. Machta and Erin Fries Taylor

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

Lessons Learned from Leading Models of Practice Facilitation

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

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

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

Medicare Advantage (MA) Within a Strengthened Medicare Program

Marsha Gold

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

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

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

Danielle DeLisle, Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

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

Steven Glazerman and Neil Seftor

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

Beth Varley and Claire Smither Wulsin

Assessment of State Capacity to Identify and Track Disparities in the Leading Health Indicators

Allison Hedley Dodd, Melissa Neuman and Marsha Gold

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

Design Options for an Impact Evaluation of the Participant Assistance Program

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

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

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

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

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

Working Toward Success: Current Evidence on Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Wittenburg

Morocco Land Productivity Project: Evaluation Design Report

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

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

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

Todd C. Honeycutt and David Wittenburg

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

Review of Dietary Reference Intakes for Selected Nutrients: Application Challenges and Implications for Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs

Barbara Devaney, Mary Kay Crepinsek, Ken Fortson and Lisa Quay

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Process Study Report

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

Seven-Year Impacts of Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Program

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

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

Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability (Presentation)

Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

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

Matthew Johnson, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

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

Carol Irvin, Jeffrey Ballou and Audra Wenzlow

Rate the Leader: A Different Perspective on Principal Evaluation

Menbere Shiferaw and Whitney Kozakowski

How Disability Beneficiaries Fared Before and After the Great Recession

Gina Livermore and Maura Bardos

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

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

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

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

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

The Challenges of Measuring Performance

William S. Borden

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

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Anthony Harris

QRIS Research: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Kimberly Boller and Kelly Maxwell

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

Angela M. Gerolamo

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

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

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

Ankita Patnaik, Galena Rhoades, Quinn Moore and Brian Doss

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

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

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

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

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

Peter Z. Schochet and John Burghardt

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

Kimberly Boller and Patricia Del Grosso

Money Follows the Person Demonstration: Overview of State Grantee Progress, January to December 2016

Rebecca Coughlin, Johanna Ward, Noelle Denny-Brown, Brynn Hagen, Kristin Maurer, Eric Morris, Jason Smoot, Allison Steiner and Bryan Perez

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

William S. Borden and Robbi L. Ruben-Urm

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

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

Richard G. Luecking and David Wittenburg

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