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Medicare Beneficiaries and HMOs: A Case Study of the Tampa-St. Petersburg Market: Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold
Pennsylvania Medical Assistance Program Reform Options: Jim Verdier
Quality Dosage, Thresholds, and Features in Early Childhood Settings: A Review of the Literature: Martha Zaslow, Rachel Anderson, Zakia Redd, Julia Wessel, Louisa Tarullo and Margaret Burchinal
How Can My Organization Connect Children to Coverage? A Guide to Fundamentals and Promising Practices: Leslie Foster and Frank Martin
Evaluation of Free to Grow, Phase II: Detailed Profile of the Free to Grow Project in Kentucky: Alicia Meckstroth
Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortion: Effects on Birth Weight and Pregnancy Resolutions: Janet Currie, Lucia Nixon and Nancy Cole
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
Comparing the Reliability and Predictive Power of Child, Teacher, and Guardian Reports of Noncognitive Skills: Shuaizhang Feng, Yujie Han, James Heckman and Tim Kautz
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
Potential Assistance for Disadvantaged Workers: Employment Social Enterprises: Nan L. Maxwell and Dana Rotz
Addressing Teacher Shortages in Disadvantaged Schools: Lessons from Two Institute of Education Sciences Studies: Melissa Clark, Sheena McConnell, Jill Constantine and Hanley Chiang
Advanced Analytics for Government Agencies (In Focus Brief): Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research
Keeping Workers with Medical Problems Employed: Can an Intervention That Succeeded Inside Workersâ€™ Compensation Succeed Outside? (Policy Brief): David Stapleton and Jennifer Christian
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
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
Effectiveness of Selected Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions: Impacts on a First Cohort of Fifth-Grade Students (Conference Paper): Susanne James-Burdumy
Medicaid and Medicare Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: What States Are Doing: James M. Verdier
Medicare Payment for Telehealth: Neetu Jain and Deborah Chollet
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 Gary Experiment in Welfare Reform: Kenneth Kehrer Stanley Stephenson and Jr.
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
Reforming School Discipline: School-Level Policy Implementation and the Consequences for Suspended Students and Their Peers: Matthew P. Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe
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
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
TRICARE for Children: Between Medicaid and Marketplace Plans for Comprehensiveness and Cost Sharing: Joseph S. Zickafoose, Amanda Lechner and Thomas Williams
Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Approaches to Integrating Programs for Young Children in Two States: Gretchen Kirby, Kimberly Boller and Heather Zaveri
Medicare+Choice 2000: Will Enrollees Spend More and Receive Less?: Amanda Cassidy and Marsha Gold
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
Kindergartners' Skills at School Entry: An Analysis of the ECLS-K: Sara Bernstein, Jerry West, Rebecca Newsham and Maya Reid
Supporting Disconnected Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences from the Field: Tosin Shenbanjo and Melissa Mack
Medicare and Medicaid Spending on Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: Arkadipta Ghosh, James Verdier, Mark Flick and Ellen Singer
Left Home High and Dry-Reduced Migration in Response to Repeated Droughts in Thailand and Vietnam: Esteban J. QuiÃ±ones, Sabine Liebenehm and Rasadhika Sharma
Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries with Intellectual Disability: Gina A. Livermore, Maura Bardos and Karen Katz
Growing Pains: Lessons from WAIT Training in Florida (Executive Summary): Betsy Keating and Rachel Shapiro
Findings from the Evaluation of the Non-Elderly Disabled (NED) Housing Choice Voucher Program: Debra Lipson, Denise Hoffman and Matthew Kehn
Family Caregiving: 20 Years of Federal Policy (In Focus Brief): Debra Lipson
A Profile of the Talent Search Program: 1999-2000: Justin Humphrey, Nancy Carey and Wendy Mansfield
Do Environmental Messages Work on the Poor? Experimental Evidence from Brazilian Favelas: Chantal Toledo
Consumers Face Higher Costs as Health Plans Seek to Control Drug Spending: Glen P. Mays, Robert E. Hurley and Joy M. Grossman
Strengthening Unmarried Parents' Relationships: The Early Impacts of Building Strong Families (Presentation): Robert G. Wood, Sheena McConnell, Quinn Moore, Andrew Clarkwest and JoAnn Hsueh
Trends in Medicare+Choice: Benefits and Premiums, 1999-2002: Lori Achman and Marsha Gold
Simple Encouragement Emails Increased Take-Up of Reemployment Program (Infographic): Matthew Darling, Christopher Oâ€™Leary, Irma Perez-Johnson, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Ken Kline, Ben Damerow, Randall Eberts, Samia Amin and Greg Chojnacki
The Effect of Cash and Counseling on Medicaid and Medicare Costs: Findings for Adults in Three States: Stacy Dale and Randall Brown
Why Equity Matters for Adult College Completion: Ann E. Person, Julie Bruch and Lisbeth Goble
Employment Research in Brief: An Annotated Bibliography of ETA-Sponsored Studies: Annalisa Mastri, Emily Evans, Stacy Pancratz and Carrie Wolfson
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
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
A National Survey of the Arrangements Managed-Care Plans Make with Physicians: Marsha R. Gold, Robert Hurley, Timothy Lake, Todd Ensor and Robert Berenson
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 National Children's Study Research Plan: A Review: Paul Guerino
The Changing Landscape of Primary Care: Effects of the ACA and Other Efforts Over the Past Decade: Deborah Peikes, Erin Fries Taylor, Ann S. Oâ€™Malley and Eugene C. Rich
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
Delivering Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Services to High-Risk Youth in Alternative School Settings: Rachel Shapiro, Robert G. Wood, Jean Knab and Lauren Murphy
Lessons from the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration and Other Studies on Coordinating Care for People with Disabilities: Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown
Building Advocacy Capacity Where Grantees Started: Jung Kim, Debra A. Strong, Judith Wooldridge and Margaret Gerteis
Delivery System Reform Incentive Payments: Interim Evaluation Report: Julia B. Baller, James Woerheide, Keanan Lane, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz and Marian V. Wrobel
Assessing Cultural Perspectives on the Quality of Care: Ann D. Bagchi, Raquel af Ursin and Alicia Leonard
Promoting Maternal and Child Health Through Health Text Messaging: An Evaluation of the Text4baby Program (Summary of Key Findings): Mathematica Policy Research
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
Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults Evidence Review: Standards and Methods: Annalisa Mastri, Emily Sama-Miller and Andrew Clarkwest
On and Off Medicaid: Enrollment Patterns for California and Florida in 1995: Marilyn R. Ellwood and Kimball Lewis
Integrating Physical Health Care in Behavioral Health Agencies in Rural Pennsylvania: Angela M. Gerolamo, Jung Y. Kim and Jonathan Brown
The Impact of Playworks on Boys' and Girls' Physical Activity During Recess: Martha Bleeker, Nicholas Beyler, Susanne James-Burdumy and Jane Fortson
Design and Analysis Considerations for Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials That Have a Small Number of Clusters: John Deke
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
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
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
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
Work Overpayments Among New Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries: Denise Hoffman, Monica Farid, Serge Lukashanets, Michael Anderson and John T. Jones
Material Hardship, Poverty, and Disability Among Working-Age Adults: Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore
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
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
Early Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Report to Congress: Irma Perez-Johnson and Alan M. Hershey
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
Special Needs Plans: Assessing the Value and Proper Role of SNPs: James M. Verdier
Medicare+Choice in California: Lessons and Insights: Marsha Gold and Timothy Lake
Making Medical Homes Work: Moving from Concept to Practice: Paul B. Ginsburg, Myles Maxfield, Ann S. O'Malley, Deborah Peikes and Hoangmai H. Pham
The Washington University Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year: Nancy Archibald, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol
Medicaid Managed Care in Rural Areas: A Ten-State Follow-Up Study: Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Pam Silberman, Sheila Hoag and Rebecca Slifkin
Launching a National Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program: Title V State SRAE Program Plans: Theresa Neelan, Danielle DeLisle and Susan Zief
Connecting At-Risk Youth to Promising Occupations: M.C. Bradley, Jiffy Lansing and Matthew Stagner
Using Data from Schools and Child Welfare Agencies to Predict Near-Term Academic Risks: Julie Bruch, Jonathan Gellar, Lindsay Cattell, John Hotchkiss and Phil Killewald
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
What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?: Eric J. Isenberg
Where the Jobs Are: Using Real-Time LMI for Green Jobs: Elizabeth Laird, Brittany English and Jillian Berk
Reimagining Health Policy Research: Collaborative Partnerships and Evidence-Based Solution to Transform Health Care: Mathematica Policy Research
Establishing and Managing a Successful Special Needs Program: James Verdier
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
Did You Get Your Shots? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Reminders: MatÃas Busso, JuliÃ¡n Cristia and Sarah Humpage
Market Signals: Evidence on the Determinants and Consequences of School Choice from a Citywide Lottery (Journal Article): Steven Glazerman and Dallas Dotter
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
Making Sense of Replication Studies: Guidance for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Researchers: Brian Goesling
Employment Coaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned: Miranda Kharsa and Kristen Joyce
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 Evidence Base for How We Learn: Supporting Studentsâ€™ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development: Stephanie M. Jones and Jennifer Kahn
Evaluation Brief: Improving Land Management for Hydropower Generation in Malawi: Thomas Coen, Anthony D'Agostino, Naomi Dorsey and Arif Mamun
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
Uptake of Medicare Behavioral Health Integration Billing Codes in 2017 and 2018: Jonathan Brown, Carol Urato and Precious Ogbuefi
Reporting Sources of Error in U.S. Federal Government Surveys: Daniel Kasprzyk and Lee Giesbrecht
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

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