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

Judith Wooldridge and Elaine Hill

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

Marykate Zukiewicz, Melissa A. Clark and Libby Makowsky

Workers' Recall Expectations and Their Implications for Worker Profiling

Nuria Rodriguez

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

Medicare Advantage (MA) Within a Strengthened Medicare Program

Marsha Gold

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

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

Designs for Measuring How the School Breakfast Program Affects Learning

Jonathan Jacobson, Ronette Briefel, Philip Gleason and Rachel Sullivan

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

Kari Wolkwitz and Daisy Ewell

Using Coaching and Navigation to Promote Economic Mobility: How Can Programs Ensure Equity?

Mary Anne Anderson and Michelle Derr

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

The Promotion Power Impacts of Louisiana High Schools

Jonah Deutsch, Matthew Johnson and Brian Gill

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

A Statistical Approach for Identifying Private Wells Susceptible to Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Contamination

Cindy Hu, Beverly Ge, Bridger J. Ruyle, Jennifer Sun and Elsie M. Sunderland

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

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

Amy Overcash, Grace Roemer and Angela Gerolamo

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

The Association Between Maltreatment and Obesity Among Preschool Children

Robert C. Whitaker, Shannon M. Phillips, Sean M. Orzol and Hillary L. Burdette

Perils of Pioneering: Monitoring Medicaid Managed Care

Judith Wooldridge and Sheila D. Hoag

Employment and Economic Well-Being of People With and Without Disabilities Before and After the Great Recession

Gina A. Livermore and Todd C. Honeycutt

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

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

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

Deborah Daro, Kimberly Boller and Bonnie Hart

Strategies for Increasing TANF Work Participation Rates: Summary Report

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

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

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

Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown

School Principals' Perspectives on the Passport to Teaching

Steven Glazerman, Christina Tuttle and Gail Baxter

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

Planning a WIC Research Agenda

Institute of Medicine Food and Nutrition Board Committee to Review the WIC Food Packages of which Barbara Devaney is a Member

How Much Bias Results if a Quasi-Experimental Design Combines Local Comparison Groups, a Pretest Outcome Measure and Other Covariates?: A Within Study Comparison of Preschool Effects

Thomas D. Cook, Naixin Zhu, Alice Klein, Prentice Starkey and Jaime Thomas

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

Brittany Borg, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

Behind the Curve: A Critical Assessment of How Little is Known about Arrangements between Managed Care Plans and Physicians

Marsha Gold, Lyle Nelson, Timothy Lake, Robert Hurley and Robert Berenson

Developing American Job Centers in Jails: Implementation of the Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release (LEAP) Grants

Jeanne Bellotti, Samina Sattar, Alix Gould-Werth, Jillian Berk, Ivette GHutierrez, Jillian Stein, Hannah Betesh, Lindsay Ochoa and Andrew Wiegand

Family Caregiving: 20 Years of Federal Policy (In Focus Brief)

Debra Lipson

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

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

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

Marsha Gold

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

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

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

The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Implementation Lessons

Patricia Del Grosso, Kristin Hallgren, Diane Paulsell and Kimberly Boller

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

Health Information Exchange: The Role of Safety-Net Providers

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Melanie Au and Patricia Higgins

Impacts of Dropout Prevention Programs

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

Summary of Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children: Evaluation Findings for the Full Implementation Year 2012

Ann M. Collins, Ronette Briefel, Jacob Alex Klerman, Gretchen Rowe, Anne Wolf, Christopher W. Logan, Anne Gordon, Carrie Wolfson, Ayesha Enver, Cheryl Owens, Charlotte Cabili and Stephen Bell

Measuring Children's Progress from Preschool Through Third Grade

Sally Atkins-Burnett

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 Changing Landscape of Primary Care: Effects of the ACA and Other Efforts Over the Past Decade

Deborah Peikes, Erin Fries Taylor, Ann S. O’Malley and Eugene C. Rich

Medicaid-Financed Institutional Services: Characteristics of Nursing Home and ICF/IID Residents and Their Patterns of Care

Jeffrey Ballou, Valerie Cheh, Dean Miller and Audra Wenzlow

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

Irma Perez-Johnson and Alan M. Hershey

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

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

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

Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services

Brian Gill, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Scott Naftel, Karen Ross, Mengli Song, Jennifer Harmon and Georges Vernez

Food Security and Food Access Among Emergency Food Pantry Households

James Mabli and David Jones

Medicare+Choice in California: Lessons and Insights

Marsha Gold and Timothy Lake

Vocational Rehabilitation: A Bridge to Self-Sufficiency for Youth Who Receive Supplemental Security Income?

Denise Hoffman, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Michelle Stegman Bailey

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

Ann Li, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Tutrang Nguyen

A Viable Alternative to Private Managed Care Models in Medicaid: Performance of Oklahoma's Primary Care Case Management Program in Controlling Preventable Hospitalizations

Margaret Colby, Sam Simon and James Verdier

Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Approaches to Integrating Programs for Young Children in Two States

Gretchen Kirby, Kimberly Boller and Heather Zaveri

The Gary Experiment in Welfare Reform

Kenneth Kehrer Stanley Stephenson and Jr.

Evaluation of the National Long-Term Care Demonstration: An Analysis of Site-Specific Results

Robert A. Applebaum, Randall S. Brown and Peter Kemper

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

Debra Lipson, Denise Hoffman and Matthew Kehn

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

Silvie Colman and Ted Joyce

Toolkit to Support Capacity Building Initiatives for Strategic Learning Initiatives

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

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

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

Marsha Gold

Great Expectations: A Framework for Assessing and Understanding Key Factors Affecting Student Learning of Foundational Reading Skills

Audrey-Marie Moore, Amber Gove and Karen Tietjen

Left Home High and Dry-Reduced Migration in Response to Repeated Droughts in Thailand and Vietnam

Esteban J. Quiñones, Sabine Liebenehm and Rasadhika Sharma

Examining the Effect of EVS Spending on HCAHPS Scores: A Value Optimization Matrix for Expense Management

Deirdre McCaughey, Samantha Stalley and Eric Williams

Multi-Armed RCTs: A Design-Based Framework

Peter Z. Schochet

Early Care and Education Partnerships: A Review of the Literature

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

Hunger in America 2010 National Report Prepared for Feeding America

James Mabli, Rhoda Cohen, Frank Potter and Zhanyun Zhao

Uptake of Medicare Behavioral Health Integration Billing Codes in 2017 and 2018

Jonathan Brown, Carol Urato and Precious Ogbuefi

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

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

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

Russell Cole

The Early Experience of the Charlestown Communities Case Management Program

Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore

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

Jonathan McCay, Michelle Derr and Ann Person

Medicare Payment for Telehealth

Neetu Jain and Deborah Chollet

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

Matthew P. Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe

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

David Stapleton and Jennifer Christian

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

Encouraging Survey Response Among Diverse, Hard-to-Reach Populations: Use of Differential Incentives (Presentation)

Alicia Harrington

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

Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement in KIPP Middle Schools

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

Obesity Among US Urban Preschool Children: Relationships to Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status

Robert C. Whitaker and Sean M. Orzol

Connecting At-Risk Youth to Promising Occupations

M.C. Bradley, Jiffy Lansing and Matthew Stagner

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

Carol V. Irvin, Rosemary Borck and Wilfredo Lim

Ready, Steady, Grow: Preparing Students for Changing Career Requirements (Infographic)

Jan Anderson

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Food Stamp Program Participation Rates in 2003-2005 for All Eligible People and the Working Poor

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

Outcomes of Cancer Surgeries, Appendix B: Detailed Tables

Eric Schone

Establishing and Managing a Successful Special Needs Program

James Verdier

Employment Research in Brief: An Annotated Bibliography of ETA-Sponsored Studies

Annalisa Mastri, Emily Evans, Stacy Pancratz and Carrie Wolfson

Evaluation Exemplar: The Critical Importance of Stakeholder Relations in a National Experimental Abstinence Education Evaluation

Paul R. Brandon, Nick L. Smith, Christopher Trenholm and Barbara Devaney

Operating a Youth Homelessness Prevention Program: A Case Study from the P3 Pilot in Sacramento, California

Caitlin Grey and Melissa Mack

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

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

Sarah A. Avellar and Lauren H. Supplee

How Can My Organization Connect Children to Coverage? A Guide to Fundamentals and Promising Practices

Leslie Foster and Frank Martin

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

Evaluation Brief: Improving Land Management for Hydropower Generation in Malawi

Thomas Coen, Anthony D'Agostino, Naomi Dorsey and Arif Mamun

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2001

Christina Tuttle and Daisy Ewell

A Profile of the Talent Search Program: 1999-2000

Justin Humphrey, Nancy Carey and Wendy Mansfield