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

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

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

All-Cause Mortality Reductions from Measles Catchup Campaigns in Africa

Ariel BenYishay and Keith Kranker

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

The Challenges of Measuring Performance

William S. Borden

Making Sense of Replication Studies: Guidance for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Researchers

Brian Goesling

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2008 SNAP QC Database and QC Minimodel

Kari Wolkwitz and Daisy Ewell

Measurement and Evaluation Checklist: Design the Solution (Phase 1)

Ryan Ruggiero, Mikia Manley, Virginia Knechtel, Kate Place and Megan Shoji

Medicare Payment for Extended Stay Services in Frontier Clinics: Impact on the Use and Cost of Emergency Care in Alaska

Boyd Gilman and Michaella Morzuch

The Role of Assistant Principals: Evidence and Insights for Advancing School Leadership, Study Highlights

Ellen Goldring, Mollie Rubin and Mariesa Herrmann

Lessons Learned Delivering Remote Services to Job Seekers with Low Incomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ryan Ruggiero, Katie Eddins and Benjamin Christensen

Why Equity Matters for Adult College Completion

Ann E. Person, Julie Bruch and Lisbeth Goble

Mejores Inicios El Estado del Aprendizaje Temprano y Preparacin para el Kindergarten en East Yakima y White Center

Diane Paulsell, Kimberly Boller, Nikki Aikens, Martha Kovac and Patricia Del Grosso

Employment Coaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned

Miranda Kharsa and Kristen Joyce

Publishing Nutrition Research: Validity, Reliability, and Diagnostic Test Assessment in Nutrition-Related Research

Philip M. Gleason, Jeffrey Harris, Patricia M. Sheean, Carol J. Boushey and Barbara Bruemmer

New Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees: The Transition to Medicaid Coverage Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Carol V. Irvin, Rosemary Borck and Wilfredo Lim

Bending the Employment, Income, and Cost Curves for People with Disabilities

David C. Stapleton

Accelerated Benefits (AB) Demonstration: Recruitment, Process, and Impact Findings After One Year

David Wittenburg, Charles Michalopoulos and Robert Weathers (Speakers)

A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs Supportive Psychotherapy to Treat Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Sabine Wilhelm, Katharine A. Phillips, Jennifer L. Greenberg, Sheila M. O’Keefe, Susanne S. Hoeppner, Aparna Keshaviah, Suraj Sarvode-Mothi and David A. Schoenfeld

Minors' Behavioral Responses to Parental Involvement Laws: Delaying Abortion Until Age 18

Silvie Colman and Ted Joyce

Reimagining Health Policy Research: Collaborative Partnerships and Evidence-Based Solution to Transform Health Care

Mathematica Policy Research

Keeping Workers with Medical Problems Employed: Can an Intervention That Succeeded Inside Workers’ Compensation Succeed Outside? (Policy Brief)

David Stapleton and Jennifer Christian

The Changing US Health Care System: Challenges for Responsible Public Policy

Marsha Gold

Approaches for Engaging Fathers in Child Support Programs (Fact Sheet)

Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on West Virginia Youth Works

Thomas Fraker, Arif Mamun, Michelle Manno, John Martinez, Debbie Reed, Allison Thompkins and David Wittenburg

Toolkit to Support Capacity Building Initiatives for Strategic Learning Initiatives

Emily Gardner, Emma Pottinger, Ramya Tallapragada, Alexandra Resch and Virginia Knechtel

Lessons from the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration and Other Studies on Coordinating Care for People with Disabilities

Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown

Simple Encouragement Emails Increased Take-Up of Reemployment Program (Infographic)

Matthew Darling, Christopher O’Leary, Irma Perez-Johnson, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Ken Kline, Ben Damerow, Randall Eberts, Samia Amin and Greg Chojnacki

The Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: Interim Report

Barbara Devaney, Amy Johnson, Rebecca Maynard and Christopher Trenholm

State Contracting with Medicare Advantage Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans: Issues and Options

James Verdier, Alexandra Kruse, Rebecca SweetlLester, Ann Mary Philip and Danielle Chelminsky

Findings from the Evaluation of the Non-Elderly Disabled (NED) Housing Choice Voucher Program

Debra Lipson, Denise Hoffman and Matthew Kehn

Delivering Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Services to High-Risk Youth in Alternative School Settings

Rachel Shapiro, Robert G. Wood, Jean Knab and Lauren Murphy

Delivery System Reform Incentive Payments: Interim Evaluation Report

Julia B. Baller, James Woerheide, Keanan Lane, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz and Marian V. Wrobel

Reforming School Discipline: School-Level Policy Implementation and the Consequences for Suspended Students and Their Peers

Matthew P. Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe

Detour to Opportunity: A Guide on Young Adult Diversion from the Criminal Justice System

Jillian Stein, Katie Bodenlos, Armando Yañez, Johanna Lacoe and Jillian Berk

Early Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Report to Congress

Irma Perez-Johnson and Alan M. Hershey

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Family Service Use and Its Relationship with Youth Outcomes

Michael Levere, Todd Honeycutt, Gina Livermore, Arif Mamun and Karen Katz

Who Will Educate Our Nurses? A Strategy to Address the Nurse Faculty Shortage in New Jersey

Angela M. Gerolamo, Amy Overcash, Jennifer McGovern, Grace Roemer and Susan Bakewell-Sachs

Hunger in America 2010 National Report Prepared for Feeding America

James Mabli, Rhoda Cohen, Frank Potter and Zhanyun Zhao

Health Care Utilization Among Children Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP via Express Lane Eligibility

Margaret Colby and Brenda Natzke

Using Data to Connect TANF Clients to Good Jobs: An Opportunity to Foster WIOA Partnerships

Kristen Joyce, Alix Gould-Werth, MIchelle Derr, Elias Sanchez-Eppler, Carrie Clowney and Lily Roberts

Healthy People (HP) 2010 Disparity Elimination Goals: Case Studies of State Efforts

Marsha Gold

Evaluation of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Continuum of Care Services (CCS) Intervention in Bihar

Evan Borkum, Anitha Sivasankaran, Swetha Sridharan, Dana Rotz, Sukhmani Sethi, Mercy Manoranjini, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan and Anu Rangarajan

Quick Steps to Improve Programs Using Behavioral Insights

Matthew Darling, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Samia Amin, Greg Chojnacki and Irma Perez-Johnson

Establishing and Managing a Successful Special Needs Program

James Verdier

The Gary Experiment in Welfare Reform

Kenneth Kehrer Stanley Stephenson and Jr.

Students Attending School Remotely Suffer Socially, Emotionally, and Academically

Angela L. Duckworth, Tim Kautz, Amy Defnet, Emma Satlof-Bedrick, Sean Talamas, Benjamin Lira and Laurence Steinberg

The Promotion Power Impacts of Louisiana High Schools

Jonah Deutsch, Matthew Johnson and Brian Gill

Costs and Benefits of Providing In-Person Professional Medical Interpreters in the Emergency Department: Results of a Randomized Controlled Study

Ann D. Bagchi, Stacy Dale, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Sky Andrecheck, Kathleen Zavotsky and Robert Eisenstein

Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators

E. Jason Baron and Max Gross

Strengthening Unmarried Parents' Relationships: The Early Impacts of Building Strong Families (Presentation)

Robert G. Wood, Sheena McConnell, Quinn Moore, Andrew Clarkwest and JoAnn Hsueh

Selecting Policy Indicators and Developing Simulation Models for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs (Summary)

Lisa Dragoset and Anne Gordon

Equity, Inclusivity, and Innovative Digital Technologies to Improve Adolescent and Young Adult Health

Sonoo Thadaney Israni, Michael E. Matheny, Ryan Matlow and Danielle Whicher

A National Survey of the Arrangements Managed-Care Plans Make with Physicians

Marsha R. Gold, Robert Hurley, Timothy Lake, Todd Ensor and Robert Berenson

Reporting Sources of Error in U.S. Federal Government Surveys

Daniel Kasprzyk and Lee Giesbrecht

Understanding the Variation in Costs Among HIV Primary Care Providers

Boyd H. Gilman and Jeremy C. Green

The Dynamics of U.S. Household Economic Circumstances Around a Birth

Alexandra B. Stanczyk

Perils of Pioneering: Monitoring Medicaid Managed Care

Judith Wooldridge and Sheila D. Hoag

Healthcare Utilization and Interest in Employment Services among Behavioral Health Home Patients with Mental Health Disorders

Judith A. Cook, Pamela J. Steigman, Lisa A. Razzano, Jane K. Burke-MIller and Nicole Pashka

Job Loss After Injury or Illness: Making Stakeholders More Accountable

Steve Bruns

The Promise of Care Coordination: Models that Decrease Hospitalizations and Improve Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries with Chronic Illnesses

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

Final Report on the Effects of Sample Attrition on Estimates of Channeling's Impacts

Randall S. Brown, Peter A. Mossel, Jennifer Schore, Nancy Holden and Judy Roberts

Evaluation of the Water-to-Market Activity in Armenia

Kenneth Fortson, Anu Rangarajan, Randall Blair, Joanne Lee and Valentine Gilbert

Implementation Fidelity in Early Childhood Home Visiting: Successes Meeting Staffing Standards, Challenges Hitting Dosage and Duration Targets

Deborah Daro, Kimberly Boller and Bonnie Hart

Vocational Rehabilitation Outcomes for Students Participating in a Model Transition Program

Richard G. Luecking, Ellen S. Fabian, Kara Contreary, Todd C. Honeycutt and Debra Martin Luecking

Participation in Math Corps Increases College Enrollment

Barbara Harris and Lindsay Fox

Special Needs Plans: Assessing the Value and Proper Role of SNPs

James M. Verdier

We Grow Together Professional Development System: Professional Development Experiences in Infant-Toddler Care

Ann Li, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Tutrang Nguyen

Improving Processes and Increasing Efficiency: The Case for States Participating in a Process Improvement Collaborative

Sheila Hoag and Judith Wooldridge

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): New York State PROMISE Process Analysis Report

AnnaMaria McCutcheon, Karen Katz, Rebekah Selekman, Todd Honeycutt, Jacqueline Kauff, Joseph Mastrianni and Adele Rizzuto

Advanced Analytics for Government Agencies (In Focus Brief)

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Assessing Cultural Perspectives on the Quality of Care

Ann D. Bagchi, Raquel af Ursin and Alicia Leonard

The Economic Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care

Amy Dworsky

Medicare Payment for Telehealth

Neetu Jain and Deborah Chollet

Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2005

Karen E. Cunnyngham, Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 5 Video: SBA)

Brittany Borg, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

The Impacts of Regular Upward Bound on Postsecondary Outcomes 7-9 Years After Scheduled High School Graduation

Neil S. Seftor, Arif Mamun and Allen Schirm

Impact of Critical Access Hospital Conversion on Beneficiary Liability

Boyd H. Gilman

Implementation of a 2-for-1 Price Incentive for Fruits and Vegetables in a Grocery Retail Setting

Rebecca Franckle, R. J. Boulos, A. N. Thorndike, A. J. Moran, N. Khandpur, J. Greene, J. P. Block, E. B. Rimm and M. Polacsek

Small Samples Due to Lower-Than-Planned Enrollment in Impact Evaluations: What to Do?

Russell Cole

Year 2 Demonstration Impacts of Using Medicaid Data to Directly Certify Students for Free School Meals

Lara Hulsey, Joshua Leftin, Anne Gordon, Claire Smither Wulsin, Nicholas Redel, Allen Schirm, Nicholas Beyler, Sheila Heaviside, Brian Estes and Carole Trippe

Work Overpayments Among New Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries

Denise Hoffman, Monica Farid, Serge Lukashanets, Michael Anderson and John T. Jones

Independent Evaluation of Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+): First Annual Report, Supplemental Volume

Grace Anglin, Deborah Peikes, 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

Facility and Client Characteristics Associated with Follow-Up After Discharge from an Inpatient Psychiatric Facility

Jonathan Brown and Nadia Bell

Using a Calendar and Explanatory Instructions to Aid Within-Household Selection in Mail Surveys

Mathew Stange, Jolene D. Smyth and Kristen Olson

Reaching the Underserved Elderly and Working Poor in SNAP: Evaluation Findings from the Fiscal Year 2009 Pilots

Jacqueline Kauff, Lisa Dragoset, Elizabeth Clary, Elizabeth Laird, Libby Makowsky and Emily Sama-Miller

Reaching Staff, Parents, and Community Partners to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Head Start, 2008

Rachel A. Gooze, Cayce C. Hughes, Daniel M. Finkelstein and Robert C. Whitaker

Pay for Performance: Evaluating the Teacher Incentive Fund (In Focus Brief)

Jeffrey Max, Jill Constantine, Alison Wellington, Kristin Hallgren, Steven Glazerman, Hanley Chiang and Cecilia Speroni

Program Churning and Transfers Between Medicaid and CHIP

Sean M. Orzol, Lauren Hula and Mary Harrington

Effectiveness of Home Visiting in Improving Child Health and Reducing Child Maltreatment

Sarah A. Avellar and Lauren H. Supplee

Using Data from Schools and Child Welfare Agencies to Predict Near-Term Academic Risks

Julie Bruch, Jonathan Gellar, Lindsay Cattell, John Hotchkiss and Phil Killewald

Better Beginnings: Partnering with Families for Early Learning Home Visit Observations

Kristin Hallgren, Kimberly Boller and Diane Paulsell

Value-Added: It's Not Perfect But It Makes Sense

Steven Glazerman, Dan Goldhaber, Susanna Loeb, Doug Staiger, Stephen Raudenbush and Grover Whitehurst

Predictive Validity of MCAS and PARCC: Comparing 10th Grade MCAS Tests to PARCC Integrated Math II, Algebra II, and 10th Grade English Language Arts Tests

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Kate Place, Erin Dillon and Brian Gill

Recruiting Parents for Entry into Middle- and High-Skilled Employment

Jessica Harding, Elizabeth Brown, Kara Conroy, Nickie Fung, Jeanette Holdbrook, Grace Roemer and Max Rankin

Medicaid Expansion and Health Services Use for Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Arkansas

Jeral Self, Kevin Callison, Anthony Goudie, Kanna Lewis and Joseph Thompson

Insights About the Transition System for SSI Youth from the National Evaluation of Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE)

Gina Livermore, Todd Honeycutt, Arif Mamun and Jacqueline Kauff

Early Care and Education Partnerships: A Review of the Literature

Patricia Del Grosso, Lauren Akers, Andrea Mraz Esposito and Diane Paulsell

National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs: 2001

Various Authors

Medicare and Medicaid Spending on Dual Eligible Beneficiaries

Arkadipta Ghosh, James Verdier, Mark Flick and Ellen Singer