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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

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

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

Gina A. Livermore and Todd C. Honeycutt

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

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

E. Jason Baron and Max Gross

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

Samuel Simon

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

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

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

Lauren Murphy, Susan Zief and Lara Hulsey

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

Silvie Colman and Ted Joyce

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

Carol V. Irvin, Rosemary Borck and Wilfredo Lim

Integrating Physical Health Care in Behavioral Health Agencies in Rural Pennsylvania

Angela M. Gerolamo, Jung Y. Kim and Jonathan Brown

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

John Deke

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

Choice Varies Widely for Beneficiaries

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

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

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

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

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

Alexandra B. Stanczyk

The Evaluation Design for the Teenage Parent Demonstration

Rebecca Maynard, Denise Polit, Alan Hershey, John Homrighausen, Ellen Kisker, Myles Maxfield, Charles Nagatoshi, Walter Nicholson and Shari Dunstan

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

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

Why Equity Matters for Adult College Completion

Ann E. Person, Julie Bruch and Lisbeth Goble

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

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

Perspectives on Networking, Cultural Values, and Skills Among African American Men with Spinal Cord Injury: A Reconsideration of Social Capital Theory

M. Njeri Jackson, Michelle A. Meade, Phyllis S. Ellenbogen and Kirsten Barrett

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

Tosin Shenbanjo and Melissa Mack

On and Off Medicaid: Enrollment Patterns for California and Florida in 1995

Marilyn R. Ellwood and Kimball Lewis

Strategies for Increasing TANF Work Participation Rates: Summary Report

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

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

Jonathan Brown and Nadia Bell

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

Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

Multi-Armed RCTs: A Design-Based Framework

Peter Z. Schochet

Head Impact Exposures Among Youth Tackle and Flag American Football Athletes

Dana Waltzman, Kelly Sarmiento, Owen Devine, Xinjian Zhang, Lara DePadilla, Marcie-jo Kresnow, Kelley Borradaile, Andrew Hurwitz, David Jones, Ravi Goyal and Matthew J. Breiding

Evaluation of the Water-to-Market Activity in Armenia

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

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

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

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

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

Shuaizhang Feng, Yujie Han, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

Payment Models and Benefit Design

Deborah Chollet

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

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

Launching a National Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program: Title V State SRAE Program Plans

Theresa Neelan, Danielle DeLisle and Susan Zief

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

Steven Glazerman, Tim Silva and Neil Seftor

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

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

Bridging Workforce Development and Corrections Cultures

Heather Lewis-Charp

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

Jonathan Brown, Carol Urato and Precious Ogbuefi

Impact of Critical Access Hospital Conversion on Beneficiary Liability

Boyd H. Gilman

Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort

Mark Dynarski, Roberto Agodini, Sheila Heaviside, Timothy Novak, Nancy Carey, Larissa Campuzano, Barbara Means, Robert Murphy, William Penuel, Hal Javitz, Deborah Emery and Willow Sussex

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

Proven Strategies in Health Care Coverage Program Outreach and Enrollment

Sean Orzol, Linda Barterian and Michael Barna

Promising Practices in a Time of Budget Stringency

Holly Stockdale, Ian Hill and Embry Howell

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

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

What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?

Eric J. Isenberg

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 Evidence Base for How We Learn: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development

Stephanie M. Jones and Jennifer Kahn

The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Implementation Lessons

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

Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement in KIPP Middle Schools

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

Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services

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

Medicare and Medicaid Spending on Dual Eligible Beneficiaries

Arkadipta Ghosh, James Verdier, Mark Flick and Ellen Singer

The National Children's Study Research Plan: A Review

Paul Guerino

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

Alicia Meckstroth

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

Amanda Cassidy and Marsha Gold

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

Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown

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

Debra Lipson, Denise Hoffman and Matthew Kehn

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

Technical Working Paper: Creation of the September 2009 Baseline of the 2005 MATH SIPP+ Microsimulation Model and Database

Joel Smith

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

Milpitas Early Learning Transitions Model: Using Assessment Data to Inform Teacher Practice

Emily Moiduddin, Celina Kamler, Lizabeth Malone and Kathryn Gonzalez

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

Sarah A. Avellar and Lauren H. Supplee

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

Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore

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

Delivery System Reform Incentive Payments: Interim Evaluation Report

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

Participation in Math Corps Increases College Enrollment

Barbara Harris and Lindsay Fox

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

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

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

Marsha Gold

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

Comparing FedEx to Traditional Postage in a Survey of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Facilities

Karen CyBulski, Melissa Krakowiecki, Larry Vittoriano and Matt Potts

Using Vouchers to Deliver Social Services: Considerations Based on the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program Experiences

Gretchen Kirby and Andrew Burwick

Making Medical Homes Work: Moving from Concept to Practice

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

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

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephanie McLeod

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

Potential Assistance for Disadvantaged Workers: Employment Social Enterprises

Nan L. Maxwell and Dana Rotz

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

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

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

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

Mary A. Laschober and Myles Maxfield

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

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

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

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

Hunger in America 2010 National Report Prepared for Feeding America

James Mabli, Rhoda Cohen, Frank Potter and Zhanyun Zhao

Examining Attrition in the Physician Component of the Community Tracking Study

Frank Potter, Michael Sinclair and Steve Williams

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

Ellen Goldring, Mollie Rubin and Mariesa Herrmann

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

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

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

Stacy Dale and Randall Brown

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

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

Lisa Dragoset and Anne Gordon

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

Barbara Devaney, Amy Johnson, Rebecca Maynard and Christopher Trenholm

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

Rachel Miller and Kara Contreary

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