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Outcomes of Cancer Surgeries

Eric Schone

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

Matthew Kehn, Gina Livermore and Eric Morris

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

James M. Verdier

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

Workers' Recall Expectations and Their Implications for Worker Profiling

Nuria Rodriguez

The Gary Experiment in Welfare Reform

Kenneth Kehrer Stanley Stephenson and Jr.

Study of Enhanced College Advising in Upward Bound: Impacts on Steps Toward College (Report)

Alina Martinez, Tamara Linkow, Hannah Miller and Amanda Parsad

Consumers Face Higher Costs as Health Plans Seek to Control Drug Spending

Glen P. Mays, Robert E. Hurley and Joy M. Grossman

Who Enrolls in Medicaid Managed Care Programs that Cover Long-Term Services and Supports? Implications of Enrollee Diversity for a National Cross-State Evaluation

Jessica Kasten, Debra Lipson, Paul Saucier and Jenna Libersky

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

Leslie Foster and Frank Martin

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

Medical Home Evaluations: Why They Can Fail, How to Structure Them

Debbie Peikes

Program Error in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Findings from the Second Access, Participation, Eligibility and Certification Study (APEC II). Volume 1: Findings

Quinn Moore, Judith Cannon, Dallas Dotter, Esa Eslami, John Hall, Joanne Lee, Alicia Leonard, Nora Paxton, Michael Ponza, Emily Weaver, Eric Zeidman, Mustafa Karakus and Roline Milfort

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

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

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

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2015

Kelsey Farson Gray, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Lauffer

Work Overpayments Among New Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries

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

Impact of Critical Access Hospital Conversion on Beneficiary Liability

Boyd H. Gilman

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

Alexandra B. Stanczyk

PREP Snapshot: Inputs and Outcomes: PREP Programs Serving Adjudicated Youth

Lauren Murphy, Susan Zief and Lara Hulsey

Building Advocacy Capacity Where Grantees Started

Jung Kim, Debra A. Strong, Judith Wooldridge and Margaret Gerteis

Designs for Measuring How the School Breakfast Program Affects Learning

Jonathan Jacobson, Ronette Briefel, Philip Gleason and Rachel Sullivan

Hospital Public Reporting Summit: The Link Between Public Reporting and Quality Improvement

Mary A. Laschober and Myles Maxfield

Early Care and Education Partnerships: A Review of the Literature

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

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

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

Mathew Stange, Jolene D. Smyth and Kristen Olson

Examining Attrition in the Physician Component of the Community Tracking Study

Frank Potter, Michael Sinclair and Steve Williams

Integration of Medicare and Medicaid for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: State Efforts Inside and Outside Demonstration Authority

James M. Verdier

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

Brian Goesling

Quick Steps to Improve Programs Using Behavioral Insights

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

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2006-2008 for All Eligible People and the Working Poor

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

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

Kari Wolkwitz and Daisy Ewell

Review of WIC Food Packages: Proposed Framework for Revisions

Committee to Review WIC Food Packages, Food Nutrition Board and of which Mary Kay Fox is a Committee Member

Measuring Children's Progress from Preschool Through Third Grade

Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

Marsha Gold

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

Proven Strategies in Health Care Coverage Program Outreach and Enrollment

Sean Orzol, Linda Barterian and Michael Barna

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

E. Jason Baron and Max Gross

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

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

Matthew P. Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe

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

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

Sarah A. Avellar and Lauren H. Supplee

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

Job Loss After Injury or Illness: Making Stakeholders More Accountable

Steve Bruns

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

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

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

Ten Years of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA): Interpreting the Research on WIA and Related Programs

Paul T. Decker and Jillian A. Berk

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

Janet Currie, Lucia Nixon and Nancy Cole

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

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

Toolkit to Support Capacity Building Initiatives for Strategic Learning Initiatives

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

Promising Practices in a Time of Budget Stringency

Holly Stockdale, Ian Hill and Embry Howell

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

Denise Hoffman, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Michelle Stegman Bailey

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

Jonathan Brown, Carol Urato and Precious Ogbuefi

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

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

Medicare and Medicaid Spending on Dual Eligible Beneficiaries

Arkadipta Ghosh, James Verdier, Mark Flick and Ellen Singer

School Principals' Perspectives on the Passport to Teaching

Steven Glazerman, Christina Tuttle and Gail Baxter

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

Matías Busso, Julián Cristia and Sarah Humpage

Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Year 1 Impact Findings from an RCT

Steven Glazerman, Sarah Dolfin, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Eric Isenberg, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Mary Grider and Edward Britton

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

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

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

A Profile of the Talent Search Program: 1999-2000

Justin Humphrey, Nancy Carey and Wendy Mansfield

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

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

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

Evaluation of the Water-to-Market Activity in Armenia

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

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

Russell Cole

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

Caitlin Grey and Melissa Mack

Connecting At-Risk Youth to Promising Occupations

M.C. Bradley, Jiffy Lansing and Matthew Stagner

Comparing the Reliability and Predictive Power of Child, Teacher, and Guardian Reports of Noncognitive Skills

Shuaizhang Feng, Yujie Han, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

Impacts of Dropout Prevention Programs

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

Employment Coaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned

Miranda Kharsa and Kristen Joyce

Building a Roadmap From Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to Patient-Reported Outcome Performance Measures Environmental Scan

Samuel Simon

State Differences in the Vocational Rehabilitation Experiences of Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities

Todd Honeycutt, Allison Thompkins, Maura Bardos and Steven Stern

The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Implementation Lessons

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

The Promotion Power Impacts of Louisiana High Schools

Jonah Deutsch, Matthew Johnson and Brian Gill

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

Alicia Meckstroth

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

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

Irma Perez-Johnson and Alan M. Hershey

Do Environmental Messages Work on the Poor? Experimental Evidence from Brazilian Favelas

Chantal Toledo

Making Medical Homes Work: Moving from Concept to Practice

Paul B. Ginsburg, Myles Maxfield, Ann S. O'Malley, Deborah Peikes and Hoangmai H. Pham

Exploiting Spatial Dependence to Improve Measurement of Neighborhood Social Processes

Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz and Stephen W. Raudenbush

Material Hardship, Poverty, and Disability Among Working-Age Adults

Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore

Food Expenditures and Diet Quality Among Low-Income Households and Individuals

James Mabli, Laura Castner, James Ohls, Mary Kay Fox, Mary Kay Crepinsek and Elizabeth Condon

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

Andrew Burwick and Diane Paulsell

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

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

Silvie Colman and Ted Joyce

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

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

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

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

Bridging the Gap: A Comparative Assessment of Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Practices with Transition-Age Youth (Journal Article)

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephanie McLeod

Program Churning and Transfers Between Medicaid and CHIP

Sean M. Orzol, Lauren Hula and Mary Harrington

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

Brittany Borg, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

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

Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown

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

Understanding the Variation in Costs Among HIV Primary Care Providers

Boyd H. Gilman and Jeremy C. Green

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

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

Barbara Devaney, Amy Johnson, Rebecca Maynard and Christopher Trenholm

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

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