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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

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

Better Beginnings: Partnering with Families for Early Learning Home Visit Observations

Kristin Hallgren, Kimberly Boller and Diane Paulsell

Evaluation of the Water-to-Market Activity in Armenia

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

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

Amy Overcash, Grace Roemer and Angela Gerolamo

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

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

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

Denise Hoffman, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Michelle Stegman Bailey

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

Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2001

Christina Tuttle and Daisy Ewell

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2015

Kelsey Farson Gray, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Lauffer

Evaluation Brief: Improving Land Management for Hydropower Generation in Malawi

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

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

Building Youth Life Skills: 8 Tips for Practitioners

Swetha Sridharan, Poonam Ravindranath, Emma Pottinger and Clemencia Cosentino

Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2005

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

National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs: 2001

Various Authors

Early Care and Education Partnerships: A Review of the Literature

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

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

Mathew Stange, Jolene D. Smyth and Kristen Olson

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

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

Daniel Kasprzyk and Lee Giesbrecht

Initial Experiences of Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder Participating in the PROMISE Initiative

Ankita Patnaik, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Arif Mamun

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

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

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

Irma Perez-Johnson and Alan M. Hershey

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

Jonathan Brown and Nadia Bell

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

David Stapleton

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

Paul T. Decker and Jillian A. Berk

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

Annalisa Mastri, Emily Sama-Miller and Andrew Clarkwest

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

Jonathan McCay, Michelle Derr and Ann Person

Perils of Pioneering: Monitoring Medicaid Managed Care

Judith Wooldridge and Sheila D. Hoag

Pathways Clearinghouse Guide for Researchers

Leah Shiferaw, Diana McCallum and Dana Rotz

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

The Impact of Playworks on Boys' and Girls' Physical Activity During Recess

Martha Bleeker, Nicholas Beyler, Susanne James-Burdumy and Jane Fortson

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

Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Coaching and Navigation: Insights from Convening Panelists

Ryan Ruggiero and Shaun Stevenson

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

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

Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

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

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephanie McLeod

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

Establishing and Managing a Successful Special Needs Program

James Verdier

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

Bending the Employment, Income, and Cost Curves for People with Disabilities

David C. Stapleton

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

Andrew Burwick and Diane Paulsell

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

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

Alicia Meckstroth

Obesity Prevention in Pediatric Primary Care: Four Behaviors to Target

Robert C. Whitaker

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

Margaret Colby and Brenda Natzke

Improving Processes and Increasing Efficiency: The Case for States Participating in a Process Improvement Collaborative

Sheila Hoag and Judith Wooldridge

Medicare Payment for Telehealth

Neetu Jain and Deborah Chollet

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

Lessons Learned Delivering Remote Services to Job Seekers with Low Incomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ryan Ruggiero, Katie Eddins and Benjamin Christensen

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

David Stapleton and Jennifer Christian

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

Alexandra B. Stanczyk

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

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

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

Delivery System Reform Incentive Payments: Interim Evaluation Report

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

Evaluating Infrastructure Development in Complex Home Visiting Systems

Margaret Hargreaves, Russell Cole, Brandon Coffee-Borden, Diane Paulsell and Kimberly Boller

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

Ten-Year Impacts of Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Program

Mikal Davis, Nick Ingwersen, Harounan Kazianga, Leigh Linden, Arif Mamun, Ali Protik and Matt Sloan

Maximizing the Value of Philanthropic Efforts Through Planned Partnerships Between the U.S. Government and Private Foundations (Presentation)

Debra A. Strong

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

Deirdre McCaughey, Samantha Stalley and Eric Williams

Using Health Information Technology to Support Quality Improvement in Primary Care

Tricia Collins Higgins, Jesse Crosson, Deborah Peikes, Robert McNellis, Janice Genevro and David Meyers

A Profile of the Talent Search Program: 1999-2000

Justin Humphrey, Nancy Carey and Wendy Mansfield

What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?

Eric J. Isenberg

Reimagining Health Policy Research: Collaborative Partnerships and Evidence-Based Solution to Transform Health Care

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Lauren Murphy, Susan Zief and Lara Hulsey

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

Brittany Borg, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

Payment Models and Benefit Design

Deborah Chollet

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

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

The Economic Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care

Amy Dworsky

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

Rachel Miller and Kara Contreary

Participation in Math Corps Increases College Enrollment

Barbara Harris and Lindsay Fox

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

Carol V. Irvin, Rosemary Borck and Wilfredo Lim

Building Advocacy Capacity Where Grantees Started

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

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

Jan Anderson

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

Steven Glazerman, Tim Silva and Neil Seftor

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

E. Jason Baron and Max Gross

Measuring Children's Progress from Preschool Through Third Grade

Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

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

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

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

School Principals' Perspectives on the Passport to Teaching

Steven Glazerman, Christina Tuttle and Gail Baxter

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

Brian Goesling

Outcomes of Cancer Surgeries, Appendix B: Detailed Tables

Eric Schone

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

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

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

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

Amanda Cassidy and Marsha Gold

Promising Practices in a Time of Budget Stringency

Holly Stockdale, Ian Hill and Embry Howell

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

Esteban J. Quiñones, Sabine Liebenehm and Rasadhika Sharma

Making Medical Homes Work: Moving from Concept to Practice

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

Proven Strategies in Health Care Coverage Program Outreach and Enrollment

Sean Orzol, Linda Barterian and Michael Barna

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

Impact of Critical Access Hospital Conversion on Beneficiary Liability

Boyd H. Gilman

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

Trends in Medicare+Choice: Benefits and Premiums, 1999-2002

Lori Achman and 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

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

Sara Bernstein, Jerry West, Rebecca Newsham and Maya Reid

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