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Employment Coaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned

Miranda Kharsa and Kristen Joyce

Insights About the Transition System for SSI Youth from the National Evaluation of Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE)

Gina Livermore, Todd Honeycutt, Arif Mamun and Jacqueline Kauff

Spotlight on Maine

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

Delivery System Reform Incentive Payments: Interim Evaluation Report

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

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

Ellen Goldring, Mollie Rubin and Mariesa Herrmann

The National Children's Study Research Plan: A Review

Paul Guerino

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

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

Deirdre McCaughey, Samantha Stalley and Eric Williams

Participation in Math Corps Increases College Enrollment

Barbara Harris and Lindsay Fox

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

Evaluation of the Water-to-Market Activity in Armenia

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

Payment Models and Benefit Design

Deborah Chollet

Implementing Coordinated Care for Dual Eligibles: Conflicts and Opportunities

James M. Verdier

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

Brian Goesling

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

Paul T. Decker and Jillian A. Berk

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

A Profile of the Talent Search Program: 1999-2000

Justin Humphrey, Nancy Carey and Wendy Mansfield

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

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Food Stamp Program Participation Rates in 2003-2005 for All Eligible People and the Working Poor

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

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

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

David Stapleton and Jennifer Christian

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2008 SNAP QC Database and QC Minimodel

Kari Wolkwitz and Daisy Ewell

Obesity Among US Urban Preschool Children: Relationships to Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status

Robert C. Whitaker and Sean M. Orzol

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

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

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

Evaluation Exemplar: The Critical Importance of Stakeholder Relations in a National Experimental Abstinence Education Evaluation

Paul R. Brandon, Nick L. Smith, Christopher Trenholm and Barbara Devaney

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

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

Medicare+Choice in California: Lessons and Insights

Marsha Gold and Timothy Lake

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on West Virginia Youth Works

Thomas Fraker, Arif Mamun, Michelle Manno, John Martinez, Debbie Reed, Allison Thompkins and David Wittenburg

Pathways Clearinghouse Guide for Researchers

Leah Shiferaw, Diana McCallum and Dana Rotz

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

Denise Hoffman, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Michelle Stegman Bailey

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

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

Making Medical Homes Work: Moving from Concept to Practice

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

Job Loss After Injury or Illness: Making Stakeholders More Accountable

Steve Bruns

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

David Wittenburg, Charles Michalopoulos and Robert Weathers (Speakers)

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

Marilyn R. Ellwood and Kimball Lewis

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

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

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

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

Melissa Clark, Sheena McConnell, Jill Constantine and Hanley Chiang

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2001

Christina Tuttle and Daisy Ewell

Evaluating Infrastructure Development in Complex Home Visiting Systems

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

Exploiting Spatial Dependence to Improve Measurement of Neighborhood Social Processes

Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz and Stephen W. Raudenbush

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

Margaret Colby and Brenda Natzke

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

David Stapleton

National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs: 2001

Various Authors

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

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

Evaluation Brief: Improving Land Management for Hydropower Generation in Malawi

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

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

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

Simple Encouragement Emails Increased Take-Up of Reemployment Program (Infographic)

Matthew Darling, Christopher O’Leary, Irma Perez-Johnson, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Ken Kline, Ben Damerow, Randall Eberts, Samia Amin and Greg Chojnacki

Medicaid and Medicare Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: What States Are Doing

James M. Verdier

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

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

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

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

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

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

Debra Lipson

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

Developing and Enhancing Data Systems (In Focus Brief)

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): New York State PROMISE Process Analysis Report

AnnaMaria McCutcheon, Karen Katz, Rebekah Selekman, Todd Honeycutt, Jacqueline Kauff, Joseph Mastrianni and Adele Rizzuto

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

The Association Between Maltreatment and Obesity Among Preschool Children

Robert C. Whitaker, Shannon M. Phillips, Sean M. Orzol and Hillary L. Burdette

Medicare and Medicaid Spending on Dual Eligible Beneficiaries

Arkadipta Ghosh, James Verdier, Mark Flick and Ellen Singer

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

Jonathan Brown, Carol Urato and Precious Ogbuefi

Why Equity Matters for Adult College Completion

Ann E. Person, Julie Bruch and Lisbeth Goble

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

Proven Strategies in Health Care Coverage Program Outreach and Enrollment

Sean Orzol, Linda Barterian and Michael Barna

The Early Experience of the Charlestown Communities Case Management Program

Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore

Building Youth Life Skills: 8 Tips for Practitioners

Swetha Sridharan, Poonam Ravindranath, Emma Pottinger and Clemencia Cosentino

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

Gina A. Livermore and Todd C. Honeycutt

How Can My Organization Connect Children to Coverage? A Guide to Fundamentals and Promising Practices

Leslie Foster and Frank Martin

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

Mathew Stange, Jolene D. Smyth and Kristen Olson

Integrating Physical Health Care in Behavioral Health Agencies in Rural Pennsylvania

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

The Promotion Power Impacts of Louisiana High Schools

Jonah Deutsch, Matthew Johnson and Brian Gill

The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Implementation Lessons

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

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

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

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold, Jessica Mittler and Beth Stevens

Variation in Physicians’ Electronic Health Record Documentation and Potential Patient Harm from That Variation

Genna R. Cohen, Charles P. Friedman, Andrew M. Ryan, Caroline R. Richardson and Julia Adler-Milstein

Getting the Most Out of State QRIS Data: Secondary Analyses of Quality Ratings from the QRIS Assessment Project

Lizabeth Malone, Gretchen Kirby and Pia Caronongan

Understanding College Match Among KIPP Northern California Students

Naihobe Gonzalez and Dan Thal

Characteristics of Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities Participating in the Federal Disability Programs

Gina A. Livermore and Maura Bardos

Strengthening Unmarried Parents' Relationships: The Early Impacts of Building Strong Families

Robert G. Wood, Sheena McConnell, Quinn Moore, Andrew Clarkwest and JoAnn Hsueh

Outcomes of Competency-Based Education in Community Colleges: Summative Findings from the Evaluation of a TAACCCT Grant

Ann E. Person, Jaime Thomas, Julie Bruch, Alexander Johann and Nikhail Maestas

Challenges and Solutions to Conducting Intensive Studies in Early Care and Education Settings

Julia Lyskawa, Gretchen Kirby, Pia Caronongan, Annalee Kelly and Andrew Burwick

Three Independent Evaluations of Healthy Kids Programs Find Dramatic Gains in Well-Being of Children and Families

Christopher Trenholm, Embry Howell, Ian Hill and Dana Hughes

Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study

Eric Isenberg, Steven Glazerman, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Mary Grider, Sarah Dolfin and Edward Britton

Assessing the Impact of Medically Tailored Meals and Medical Nutrition Therapy on Type 2 Diabetes: Protocol for Project MiNT

Kristin L. Rising, Mackenzie Kemp, Patricia Davidson, Judd E. Hollander, Serge Jabbour, Eric Jutkowitz, Benjamin E. Leiby, Cheryl Marco, Ian McElwee, Geoffrey Mills, Laura Pizzi, Rhea E. Powell and Anna Marie Chang

Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS), October 1, 1998 Questionnaire

Mathematica Policy Research

Dynamics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation from 2008 to 2012

Joshua Leftin, Nancy Wemmerus, James Mabli, Thomas Godfrey and Stephen Tordella

Good Things Come in Small Packages: Lessons Learned from the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative

Sarah Jones, Monica Martinez and Cindy Cai

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

Transforming Teachers' Practice: The Impact of EL Education's English Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Learning on Teacher Practices

Jane Choi, Scott Richman and Sarah Dolfin

Toddlers in Early Head Start: A Portrait of 3-Year-Olds, Their Families, and the Programs Serving Them. Volume I: Age 3 Report

Cheri A. Vogel, Pia Caronongan, Yange Xue, Jaime Thomas, Eileen Bandel, Nikki Aikens, Kimberly Boller and Lauren Murphy

Not Just Numeracy and Literacy: Theory of Mind Development and School Readiness among Low-Income Children

Elizabeth Woodburn Cavadel and Douglas A. Frye

Backlash or a Positive Response?: Public Opinion of LGB Issues After Obergefell v. Hodges

Emily Kazyak and Mathew Stange

Rethinking the Mental Health Treatment Skills of Primary Care Staff: A Framework for Training and Research

Jonathan D. Brown and Lawrence S. Wissow

To Apply or Not to Apply: The Employment and Program Participation of Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants and Non-Applicants

Allison Thompkins, Todd Honeycutt, Claire Gill, Joseph Mastrianni and Michelle Bailey

Accountable Care Organizations: Will They Deliver?

Marsha Gold