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Family Caregiving: 20 Years of Federal Policy (In Focus Brief)

Debra Lipson

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

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

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

Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore

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

John Deke

Food Security and Food Access Among Emergency Food Pantry Households

James Mabli and David Jones

Building Youth Life Skills: 8 Tips for Practitioners

Swetha Sridharan, Poonam Ravindranath, Emma Pottinger and Clemencia Cosentino

Examining Attrition in the Physician Component of the Community Tracking Study

Frank Potter, Michael Sinclair and Steve Williams

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 Early Experience of the Charlestown Communities Case Management Program

Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore

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

The Impact of Healthy Harlem on Student Fitness Outcomes after Two and Three Years

Martha Bleeker, James Mabli, Mary Kay Fox, Betina Jean-Louis and Marlene Fox

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

Matías Busso, Julián Cristia and Sarah Humpage

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

Jonathan McCay, Michelle Derr and Ann Person

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Michelle Derr

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

Alicia Meckstroth

Impacts of Dropout Prevention Programs

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

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

Debbie Peikes

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

Denise Hoffman, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Michelle Stegman Bailey

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

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

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

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

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

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

Joseph S. Zickafoose, Amanda Lechner and Thomas Williams

Evaluating Infrastructure Development in Complex Home Visiting Systems

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

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

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

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

James M. Verdier

Critical Research Questions for Improving the Full Integration of Persons with Disabilities in the Workforce

Craig Thornton

Spotlight on Maine

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

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

Alina Martinez, Tamara Linkow, Hannah Miller and Amanda Parsad

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

Chantal Toledo

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

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

Is It Time to Establish a National Disability Data System?

David C. Stapleton and Craig Thornton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bridging Workforce Development and Corrections Cultures

Heather Lewis-Charp

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

Susanne James-Burdumy

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

Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Model: Findings at a Glance Evaluation of Second Year (2018)

Deborah Peikes, Grace Anglin, Janice Genevro and Et Al.

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

Andrew Burwick and Diane Paulsell

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

Mary A. Laschober and Myles Maxfield

The Washington University Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Nancy Archibald, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol

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

Theresa Neelan, Danielle DeLisle and Susan Zief

Choice Varies Widely for Beneficiaries

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

Exploiting Spatial Dependence to Improve Measurement of Neighborhood Social Processes

Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz and Stephen W. Raudenbush

Implementing Coordinated Care for Dual Eligibles: Conflicts and Opportunities

James M. Verdier

Payment Models and Benefit Design

Deborah Chollet

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

Gina A. Livermore and Todd C. Honeycutt

Strategies for Increasing TANF Work Participation Rates: Summary Report

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

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

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

Promising Practices in a Time of Budget Stringency

Holly Stockdale, Ian Hill and Embry Howell

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

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

Connecting At-Risk Youth to Promising Occupations

M.C. Bradley, Jiffy Lansing and Matthew Stagner

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

Steven Glazerman, Tim Silva and Neil Seftor

Designs for Measuring How the School Breakfast Program Affects Learning

Jonathan Jacobson, Ronette Briefel, Philip Gleason and Rachel Sullivan

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

Paul T. Decker and Jillian A. Berk

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

Ankita Patnaik, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Arif Mamun

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

Gina A. Livermore, Maura Bardos and Karen Katz

Building Advocacy Capacity Where Grantees Started

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

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

Amang Sukasih, Donsig Jang and David Edson

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

Lauren Murphy, Susan Zief and Lara Hulsey

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

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

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

School Principals' Perspectives on the Passport to Teaching

Steven Glazerman, Christina Tuttle and Gail Baxter

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

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

Emily Moiduddin, Celina Kamler, Lizabeth Malone and Kathryn Gonzalez

Potential Assistance for Disadvantaged Workers: Employment Social Enterprises

Nan L. Maxwell and Dana Rotz

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

Joel Smith

Medicare+Choice in California: Lessons and Insights

Marsha Gold and Timothy Lake

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

Shuaizhang Feng, Yujie Han, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

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 Impact of Quality-Reporting Programs on Hospital Operations

Hoangmai H. Pham, Jennifer Coughlan and Ann S. O'Malley

Career Ladders and Pathways for the Hard-to-Employ

Alison Gash and Melissa Mack

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Panel Regarding the Use of Incentive Payments and the Evaluation Design (Appendices)

Thomas Fraker and Todd Honeycutt

Creation of the 2011 MATH SIPP+ Microsimulation Model and Database

Joshua Leftin, Joel Smith, Karen Cunnyngham and Carole Trippe

Learning from Charter School Management Organizations: Strategies for Student Behavior and Teacher Coaching

Robin Lake, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Moira McCullough, Joshua Haimson and Brian Gill

Implementing Large-Scale Studies of Children Using Clinical Assessments

Elizabeth T. Spier, Susan Sprachman and Cassandra Rowand

Small Area Estimation: New Developments and Directions for HHS Data

John L. Czajka, Amang Sukasih and Alyssa Maccarone

Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and Treatment Effects? Reassessing Bias in Nonexperimental Estimators

Kenneth Fortson, Philip Gleason, Emma Kopa and Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz

Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Systems and Eligibility Expansions

Leighton Ku, Marilyn Ellwood, Sheila Hoag, Barbara Ormond and Judith Wooldridge

The Status of Academic Libraries in the United States: Results from the 1994 Academic Library Survey, With Historical Comparisons to 1974

Margaret W. Cahalan and Natalie M. Justh

How States Can Better Understand their Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: A Guide to Using CMS Data Resources

Danielle Chelminsky

Medicare Advantage Benefit Design: What Does It Provide, What Doesn't It Provide, and Should Standards Apply?

Marsha Gold and Maria Cupples Hudson

Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage in the Community Tracking Study and the Current Population Survey

Margo Rosenbach and Kimball Lewis

What Does $1,000 in Seed Capital Buy? Emerging Lessons from the SET Program’s Offer of Microgrants for Business Start-Ups

Mary Anne Anderson, Samia Amin, Irma Perez-Johnson and Caroline Massad Francis

Tips for Enrolling and Retaining Evaluation Participants

Sarah Avellar, Kelley Borradaile and Debra Strong

PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Toolkit

Dominick Esposito, Jessica Heeringa, Katharine Bradley, Sarah Croake, Laura Kimmey and Amanda Lechner

Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Factsheet: Annual Health Care Cost Trends Hearings

Mathematica

A Behaviour Change Intervention with Lipid†Based Nutrient Supplements had Little Impact on Young Child Feeding Indicators in Rural Kenya

Kendra Byrd, Holly N. Dentz, Anne Williams, Marion Kiprotich, Amy J. Pickering, Ronald Omondi, Osborne Kwena, Gouthami Rao, Charles D. Arnold, Benjamin F. Arnold, Kathryn G. Dewey, John M. Colford, Jr., Clair Null and Christine P. Stewart

Characteristics and Dietary Patterns of Healthy and Less-Healthy Eaters in the Low-Income Population

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Mary Kay Fox and P.K. Newby

The Evaluation of the National Long-Term Care Demonstration: Final Report

Peter Kemper, Randall S. Brown, George J. Carcagno, Robert A. Applebaum, Jon B. Christianson, Walter Corson, Shari Miller Dunstan, Thomas Grannemann, Margaret Harrigan, Nancy Holden, Barbara Phillips, Jennifer Schore, Craig Thornton, Judith Wooldridge and Felicity Skidmore

Promising Models of Care Coordination in Medicare: Lessons for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Chronic Illnesses

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

Indicators of Child Family and Community Connections

Various Authors