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Medicare+Choice in California: Lessons and Insights

Marsha Gold and Timothy Lake

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2015

Kelsey Farson Gray, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Lauffer

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

Impacts of Dropout Prevention Programs

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

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

Marsha Gold

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

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

Brittany Borg, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

Assessing Cultural Perspectives on the Quality of Care

Ann D. Bagchi, Raquel af Ursin and Alicia Leonard

Market Rate Surveys and Alternative Methods of Data Collection and Analysis to Inform Subsidy Payment Rates

Eiizabeth Davis, Lynn A. Karoly, Bobbie Weber, Pia Caronongan, Kathryn Tout, Patti Banghart, Sara Shaw and Anne Partika

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

Choice Varies Widely for Beneficiaries

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

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

Hunger in America 2010 National Report Prepared for Feeding America

James Mabli, Rhoda Cohen, Frank Potter and Zhanyun Zhao

Proven Strategies in Health Care Coverage Program Outreach and Enrollment

Sean Orzol, Linda Barterian and Michael Barna

Educating Beneficiaries About the Cost of Care: Health Accounts in Arkansas, Indiana, and Michigan

Rachel Miller and Kara Contreary

Superutilization of Child Welfare, Medicaid, and Other Services (Executive Summary)

Elizabeth Weigensberg, Derekh Cornwell, Lindsey Leininger, Matthew Stagner, Sarah LeBarron, Jonathan Gellar, Sophie MacIntyre, Richard Chapman, Erin J. Maher, Peter J. Pecora and Kirk O’Brien

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

Shuaizhang Feng, Yujie Han, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

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

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

Debbie Peikes

Spotlight on Maine

Grace Anglin, Kelly Devers, Rachel Burton, Emily Lawton and Amanda Napoles

Exploiting Spatial Dependence to Improve Measurement of Neighborhood Social Processes

Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz and Stephen W. Raudenbush

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

Using Tau-Argus and sdcTable to Conduct Secondary Cell Supression for Linked Tables

Amang Sukasih, Donsig Jang and David Edson

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

Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown

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

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

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

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

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

Margaret Colby and Brenda Natzke

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

Stacy Dale and Randall Brown

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

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

Promoting Maternal and Child Health Through Health Text Messaging: An Evaluation of the Text4baby Program (Summary of Key Findings)

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Gina A. Livermore, Maura Bardos and Karen Katz

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

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

David Wittenburg, Charles Michalopoulos and Robert Weathers (Speakers)

Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults Evidence Review: Standards and Methods

Annalisa Mastri, Emily Sama-Miller and Andrew Clarkwest

Strategies for Increasing TANF Work Participation Rates: Summary Report

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

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

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

Why Equity Matters for Adult College Completion

Ann E. Person, Julie Bruch and Lisbeth Goble

Potential Assistance for Disadvantaged Workers: Employment Social Enterprises

Nan L. Maxwell and Dana Rotz

Advanced Analytics for Government Agencies (In Focus Brief)

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study III: Public-Use File Documentation, Version 2

Anne Gordon, Elizabeth Condon, Melissa Clark, Karin Zeller, Elaine Hill, Ander Wilson and Ronette Briefel

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

Medicare Beneficiaries and HMOs: A Case Study of the Tampa-St. Petersburg Market

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

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

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

Irma Perez-Johnson and Alan M. Hershey

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

Matthew P. Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe

Design and Analysis Considerations for Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials That Have a Small Number of Clusters

John Deke

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

Summary Report from the DEHPG 2014 LTSS Research Summit

Carol Irvin

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

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

What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?

Eric J. Isenberg

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

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

The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Implementation Lessons

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

Doubling Down: Reforming Retirement and Disability Policy at the Same Time

David Stapleton

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

Medicare+Choice 2000: Will Enrollees Spend More and Receive Less?

Amanda Cassidy and Marsha Gold

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

Ellen Goldring, Mollie Rubin and Mariesa Herrmann

TRICARE for Children: Between Medicaid and Marketplace Plans for Comprehensiveness and Cost Sharing

Joseph S. Zickafoose, Amanda Lechner and Thomas Williams

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

Ann Li, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Tutrang Nguyen

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

Steven Glazerman, Tim Silva and Neil Seftor

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

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

Amy Overcash, Grace Roemer and Angela Gerolamo

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

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

Jonathan Brown and Nadia Bell

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Michelle Derr

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

Susanne James-Burdumy

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

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

Mathew Stange, Jolene D. Smyth and Kristen Olson

Quick Steps to Improve Programs Using Behavioral Insights

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

The Power of Nutrition: How It Is Working and Early Learnings

Anitha Sivasankaran, Anu Rangarajan, Nikita Ramchandani and Heather Ingraham

Program Churning and Transfers Between Medicaid and CHIP

Sean M. Orzol, Lauren Hula and Mary Harrington

Job Loss After Injury or Illness: Making Stakeholders More Accountable

Steve Bruns

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

Sara Bernstein, Jerry West, Rebecca Newsham and Maya Reid

Addressing Teacher Shortages in Disadvantaged Schools: Lessons from Two Institute of Education Sciences Studies

Melissa Clark, Sheena McConnell, Jill Constantine and Hanley Chiang

The Early Experience of the Charlestown Communities Case Management Program

Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore

Obesity Prevention in Pediatric Primary Care: Four Behaviors to Target

Robert C. Whitaker

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

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

Delivery System Reform Incentive Payments: Interim Evaluation Report

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

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

Deborah Daro, Kimberly Boller and Bonnie Hart

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

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephanie McLeod

Developing and Enhancing Data Systems (In Focus Brief)

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

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

Brian Goesling

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

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

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

Samuel Simon

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

Barbara Devaney, Amy Johnson, Rebecca Maynard and Christopher Trenholm

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2001

Christina Tuttle and Daisy Ewell

Parents and Children Together: How Low-Income Fathers in Responsible Fatherhood Programs Perceive and Provide Financial Support for Their Children

Quinn Moore, Rebekah Selekman, Ankita Patnaik and Heather Zaveri

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

Tosin Shenbanjo and Melissa Mack

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

Alina Martinez, Tamara Linkow, Hannah Miller and Amanda Parsad

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

Early Care and Education Partnerships: A Review of the Literature

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

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

Daniel Kasprzyk and Lee Giesbrecht