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Risk Factors Associated with Disability Following Work-Related Injuries

Nan L. Maxwell and Nathan Wozny

Ticket to Work Participants: Then and Now

Crystal Blyler, Denise Hoffman and Gina Livermore

Lessons Learned from the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness Review

Sarah Avellar and Diane Paulsell

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

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

Choice Varies Widely for Beneficiaries

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

Cross-Site Evaluation Update: Cost Analysis

Andrew Burwick

Health Care Costs Are a Key Driver of Growth in Federal and State Assistance to Working-Age People with Disabilities

Gina Livermore, David C. Stapleton and Meghan O'Toole

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

James M. Verdier

Health Information Exchange: The Role of Safety-Net Providers

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Melanie Au and Patricia Higgins

Money Follows the Person Demonstration: Overview of State Grantee Progress, January to June 2013

Bailey G. Orshan, Noelle Denny-Brown, Eric Morris, Victoria Peebles, Matthew Kehn, Susan R. Williams and Sarah Schoenfeldt

The NIH Intramural Research Loan Repayment Program: Synthesis of Findings from Process and Outcomes Analyses

Steven Glazerman, Tim Silva and Neil Seftor

Innovations in Home- and Community-Based Services: Highlights from a Review of Services Available to Money Follows the Person Participants

Victoria Peebles and Matthew Kehn

Toddlers in Early Head Start: A Portrait of 2-Year-Olds, Their Families, and the Programs Serving Them. Volume 2: Technical Appendices

Cheri A. Vogel, Pia Caronongan, Jaime Thomas, Eileen Bandel, Yange Xue, Juliette Henke, Nikki Aikens, Kimberly Boller and Lauren Murphy

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

Daniel Kasprzyk and Lee Giesbrecht

Examination of the Effect of SNAP Benefit and Eligibility Parameters on Low-Income Households (Executive Summary)

Joshua Leftin, Thomas Godfrey, James Mabli, Nancy Wemmerus and Stephen Tordella

The Gary Experiment in Welfare Reform

Kenneth Kehrer Stanley Stephenson and Jr.

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 It Time to Establish a National Disability Data System?

David C. Stapleton and Craig Thornton

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

Toolkit to Support Capacity Building Initiatives for Strategic Learning Initiatives

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

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

Silvie Colman and Ted Joyce

How Are States and Evaluators Measuring Medical Homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program?

Stacey McMorrow, Anna Christensen, Brenda Natzke, Kelly Devers and Rebecca Peters

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

Russell Cole

Evaluation of Free to Grow, Phase II: Detailed Profile of the Free to Grow Project in Kentucky

Alicia Meckstroth

Perils of Pioneering: Monitoring Medicaid Managed Care

Judith Wooldridge and Sheila D. Hoag

Medicaid Managed Care in Rural Areas: A Ten-State Follow-Up Study

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Pam Silberman, Sheila Hoag and Rebecca Slifkin

Using External Quality Review Organizations to Improve the Quality of Preventive and Developmental Services for Children

Tara Krissik, Melissa Faux, Henry T. Ireys and James M. Verdier

Factors Contributing to Poor Satisfaction with Sleep and Healthcare Seeking Behavior in Older Adults

Abraham Olufunmilola, Jia Pu, Loren J. Schleiden and Steven M. Albert

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

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

Measuring Children's Progress from Preschool Through Third Grade

Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

Deborah Daro, Kimberly Boller and Bonnie Hart

Changes in Health Care Use Associated With the Introduction of Hospital Global Budgets in Maryland

Eric T. Roberts, J. Michael McWilliams, Laura A. Hatfield, Sule Gerovich, Michael E. Chernew, Lauren G. Gilstrap and Ateev Mehrotra

Shrinkage of Value-Added Estimates and Characteristics of Students with Hard-to-Predict Achievement Levels

Mariesa Herrmann, Elias Walsh, Eric Isenberg and Alexandra Resch

Impacts of Dropout Prevention Programs

Mark Dynarski, Philip M. Gleason, Anu Rangarajan and Robert G. Wood

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

Marsha Gold

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

Carol V. Irvin, Rosemary Borck and Wilfredo Lim

Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortion: Effects on Birth Weight and Pregnancy Resolutions

Janet Currie, Lucia Nixon and Nancy Cole

Using a "Road Test" to Improve Human Services Programs (Practice Brief)

Jonathan McCay, Michelle Derr and Ann Person

Understanding the Variation in Costs Among HIV Primary Care Providers

Boyd H. Gilman and Jeremy C. Green

Ten-Year Impacts of Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Program

Mikal Davis, Nick Ingwersen, Harounan Kazianga, Leigh Linden, Arif Mamun, Ali Protik and Matt Sloan

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

Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown

Descriptive Data on Head Start Children and Families from FACES 2019: Fall 2019 Data Tables and Study Design

Ashley Kopack Klein, Nikki Aikens, Ann Li, Sara Bernstein, Natalie Reid, Myley Dang, Elizabeth Blesson, Sharikah Rakibullah, Myah Scott, Judy Cannon, Jeff Harrington, Addison Larson, Lizabeth Malone and Louisa Tarullo

School Principals' Perspectives on the Passport to Teaching

Steven Glazerman, Christina Tuttle and Gail Baxter

Access to Care and Prevalence of Hypertension and Diabetes Among Syrian Refugees in Northern Jordan

Ruwan Ratnayake, Fatma Rawashdeh, Raeda AbuAlRub, Nahla Al-Ali, Muhammad Fawad, Mohammad Bani Hani, Ravi Goyal, P. Gregg Greenough, Khaldoun Al-Amire, Rowaida AlMaaitah and Parveen Parmar

Obesity Prevention in Pediatric Primary Care: Four Behaviors to Target

Robert C. Whitaker

Strategies for Increasing TANF Work Participation Rates: Summary Report

LaDonna Pavetti, Jacqueline Kauff, Michelle K. Derr, Jeffrey Max, Ann Person and Gretchen Kirby

Measuring the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation on Food Security (Executive Summary)

James Mabli, Jim Ohls, Lisa Dragoset, Laura Canstner and Betsy Santos

Serving Elders at Risk: The Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs National Evaluation of the Elderly Nutrition Program 1993-1995. Volume III: Methodology and Appendices

James C. Ohls, Michael Ponza and Dexter Chu

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

Ann Li, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Tutrang Nguyen

Outcomes of Cancer Surgeries, Appendix B: Detailed Tables

Eric Schone

Establishing and Managing a Successful Special Needs Program

James Verdier

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

David C. Stapleton

Parents and Children Together: Effects of Two Healthy Marriage Programs for Low-Income Couples

Quinn Moore, Sarah Avellar, Ankita Patnaik, Reginald Covington and April Wu

Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low-Income Families. Volume I: Technical Report

John M. Love, Ellen Eliason Kisker, Christine Ross, Peter Z. Schochet, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Kimberly Boller, Diane Paulsell, Allison Sidle Fuligni and Lisa J. Berlin

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

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

Informing the Performance-Based Contract Between First 5 LA and LAUP: Child Progress in the 2010-2011 Program Year

Emily Moiduddin, Yange Xue and Sally Atkins-Burnett

Effectiveness of Selected Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions: Impacts on a First Cohort of Fifth-Grade Students (Conference Paper)

Susanne James-Burdumy

Data Gaps Could Hinder Efforts to Educate Enough Nurses to Meet Demand

Amy Overcash, Grace Roemer and Angela Gerolamo

Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement in KIPP Middle Schools

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Brian P. Gill, Philip Gleason and Christina Clark Tuttle

Connecting At-Risk Youth to Promising Occupations

M.C. Bradley, Jiffy Lansing and Matthew Stagner

Delivery System Reform Incentive Payments Design Plan Supplement: Interim Outcomes Evaluation

Julia Baller, Marian V. Wrobel, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Mariel Finucane and Carol Irvin

Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries with Intellectual Disability

Gina A. Livermore, Maura Bardos and Karen Katz

Quick Steps to Improve Programs Using Behavioral Insights

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

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

Sarah A. Avellar and Lauren H. Supplee

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

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

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

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

The Impact of Healthy Harlem on Student Fitness Outcomes after Two and Three Years

Martha Bleeker, James Mabli, Mary Kay Fox, Betina Jean-Louis and Marlene Fox

Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Coaching and Navigation: Insights from Convening Panelists

Ryan Ruggiero and Shaun Stevenson

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: First-Year Snapshot of Earnings and Benefit Impacts for Stage 1

David Stapleton, David Wittenburg, Daniel Gubits, David Judkins, David R. Mann and Andrew McGuirk

Nutrition Supports for Families with Young Children: An Equity-Focused Policy Research Agenda

Andrew Burwick and Diane Paulsell

The Effect of Cash and Counseling on Medicaid and Medicare Costs: Findings for Adults in Three States

Stacy Dale and Randall Brown

Critical Research Questions for Improving the Full Integration of Persons with Disabilities in the Workforce

Craig Thornton

Medicare+Choice Becomes Medicare Advantage: Will Past Be Prologue?

Marsha Gold

Food Security and Food Access Among Emergency Food Pantry Households

James Mabli and David Jones

Did You Get Your Shots? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Reminders

Matías Busso, Julián Cristia and Sarah Humpage

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

Ryan Ruggiero, Katie Eddins and Benjamin Christensen

Comparative Evaluation of National Health Service Corps Alumni Retained in Health Manpower Shortage Areas: Research Design

Kathryn M. Langwell, Shelly L. Nelson and Edward Lenk

The Impact of Playworks on Boys' and Girls' Physical Activity During Recess

Martha Bleeker, Nicholas Beyler, Susanne James-Burdumy and Jane Fortson

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

Alexandra B. Stanczyk

Implementation of a Reverse Colocation Model: Lessons from Two Community Behavioral Health Agencies in Rural Pennsylvania

Angela M. Gerolamo, Jung Y. Kim, Jonathan D. Brown, James Schuster and Jane Kogan

The RETAIN Demonstration: Practical Implications of State Variation in SSDI Entry

Michael Anderson, Yonatan Ben-Shalom, David Stapleton and David Wittenburg

Kindergartners' Skills at School Entry: An Analysis of the ECLS-K

Sara Bernstein, Jerry West, Rebecca Newsham and Maya Reid

Student Victimization in U.S. Schools: Results from the 2013 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey

Deborah Lessne, Melissa Cidade, Amy Gerke, Karlesha Roland and Michael Sinclair

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

Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

Health Care Market Stabilizes, But Rising Costs and State Budget Woes Loom in Boston

John F. Hoadley, Debra A. Draper, Sylvia Kuo, Peter J. Cunningham, Jessica Mittler, Len M. Nichols, Gloria J. Bazzoli, Justin White and Robert A. Berenson

Practice Strategies to Improve Primary Care for Chronic Disease Patients Under a Pay-for-Value Program

Dori A. Cross, Paige Nong, Christy Harris-Lemak, Genna R. Cohen, Ariel Linden and Julia Adler-Milstein

Closures Are the Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Variation in State Vocational Rehabilitation Program Exits After Service Receipt

David Stapleton, Todd Honeycutt and Bruce Schechter

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

Sheila Hoag and Judith Wooldridge

Hunger in America 2010 National Report Prepared for Feeding America

James Mabli, Rhoda Cohen, Frank Potter and Zhanyun Zhao

Summary Report from the DEHPG 2014 LTSS Research Summit

Carol Irvin

Work Overpayments Among New Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries

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

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

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

Adding Design Elements to Improve Time Series Designs: No Child Left Behind as an Example of Causal Pattern-Matching

Manyee Wong, Thomas D. Cook and Peter M. Steinerd

Examining States' Use of Policies and Practices Promoted by Race to the Top (In Focus Brief)

Lisa Dragoset, Susanne James-Burdumy, Kristin Hallgren, Irma Perez-Johnson, Mariesa Herrmann, Christina Tuttle, Megan Hague Angus, Rebecca Herman, Matthew Murray, Corutney Tanenbaum and Cheryl Graczewski

Growing Pains: Lessons from WAIT Training in Florida (Executive Summary)

Betsy Keating and Rachel Shapiro

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

Supporting Disconnected Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences from the Field

Tosin Shenbanjo and Melissa Mack