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

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

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David C. 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

The First National Survey of Local School-To-Work Partnerships: Data Summary

Marsha Silverberg

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

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

A Framework for Advancing the Well-Being and Self-Sufficiency of At-Risk Youth

M. Robin Dion

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

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Anthony Harris

Collecting Sensitive Information and Encouraging Reluctant Respondents

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

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

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

The Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP): Launching a Nationwide Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Effort

Susan Zief, Rachel Shapiro and Debra Strong

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

LaDonna Pavetti, Linda Rosenberg and Michelle K. Derr

Effects of Traditional Swaddling on Development: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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

On the Road to Universal Children's Health Coverage: An Interim Report on the KidsWell Campaign

Sheila Hoag, Debra Lipson and Victoria Peebles

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

Jody Schimmel

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

Laura Ruttner, Irina Cheban and So O'Neil

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

An Illustrative Analysis of Medicare Options Compare: What's There and What's Not

Marsha Gold

Measuring Incentives and Deterrents to Participation in Adult Education

Tim Silva

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

Evaluation of the Military Base National Emergency Grants

Karen Needels, Jeanne Bellotti, Mina Dadgar and Walter Nicholson

Sensitivity of Self-Reported Noncognitive Skills to Survey Administration Conditions

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

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

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

Allen L. Schirm and Laura A. Castner

The Early Experience of the Georgetown Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program

Karen Sautter, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

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

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

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

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

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

Christian Geckeler and Laura Pryor

Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability (Presentation)

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

Compendium of Quality Rating Systems and Evaluations

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

The Work Experiences of New SSI Beneficiaries: A Longitudinal Perspective

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

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

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

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

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2016

Karen Cunnyngham

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

The Challenges of Measuring Performance

William S. Borden

2020 Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods

Jason Markesich, Stacie Feldman and William Rafferty

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

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

Elizabeth Brown, Gretchen G. Kirby and Kara Conroy

From National Disability Data Disorder to National Disability Data System?

David Stapleton

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

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

Robert G. Wood

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

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

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 Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Prices and Product Availability

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

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

Danielle Chelminsky

Patterns of Employment and Allowances for Disability Insurance Applicants

Kara Contreary, Todd Honeycutt, Michelle Bailey and Joseph Mastrianni

Vocational Rehabilitation Program Evaluation Coach Toolkit

Mathematica Staff

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

Mark Strayer, Joshua Leftin and Esa Eslami

Improving Care for Dual Eligibles: Opportunities for Medicare Managed Care Plans

James M. Verdier

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

Ankita Patnaik, Galena Rhoades, Quinn Moore and Brian Doss

Special Needs Plans: Availability and Enrollment

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

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

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

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

Evidence-Based Policy: U.S. Perspectives

Mark Dynarski

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

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Wittenburg

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

Hande Inanc

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

Hande Inanc

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

Matt Sloan and Debra Wright

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

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

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

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

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

Eugene C. Rich

The New Jersey Medicaid Program: Some Comparisons to Other States

James M. Verdier

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

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

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

Matthew Kehn, Gina Livermore and Eric Morris

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

Peter Z. Schochet and John Burghardt

Real-World Adherence to Patient-Reported Outcome Monitoring as a Cancer Care Quality Metric

Samuel U. Takvorian, Ryan T. Anderson, Peter E. Gabriel, Dmitriy Poznyak, Sooin Lee, Samuel Simon, Kirsten Barrett and Lawrence N. Shulman

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

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

Morocco Land Productivity Project: Evaluation Design Report

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

Pre-Application Activities of Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants

Todd Honeycutt, Allison Thompkins and Michelle Bailey

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

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

David Wittenburg and Sandi Nelson

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

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

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

HCBS Claims Analysis Chartbook: Final Report

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

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

Diane Paulsell and Brandon Coffee-Borden

Who’s At Risk of Entering Social Security Disability Insurance? A Comparison of Application and Allowance Rates for Groups of At-Risk Individuals

Kara Contreary and Todd Honeycutt

Long-Term Effects of Evidence-Based Supported Employment on Earnings and on SSI and SSDI Participation Among Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities

Judith A. Cook, Jane K. Burke-Miller and Emily Roessel

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

Beth Varley and Claire Smither Wulsin

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

Growing America Through Entrepreneurship

Jeanne Bellotti, Sheena McConnell and Jacob Benus

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

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

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

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

Angela Valdovinos D’Angelo and Katie Bodenlos

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

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

Meg Long, Wanda Casillas and James Liou

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

Impacts of the Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot

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

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

Marykate Zukiewicz, Melissa A. Clark and Libby Makowsky

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

Implementing Expanded Medicaid Eligibility and MAGI Under ACA: State Perspectives

Cheryl Camillo

Evaluation of a Rural Road Rehabilitation Project in Armenia

Kenneth Fortson, Randall Blair and Kathryn Gonzalez