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

Joel Smith

Implementation Fidelity in Early Childhood Home Visiting: Successes Meeting Staffing Standards, Challenges Hitting Dosage and Duration Targets

Deborah Daro, Kimberly Boller and Bonnie Hart

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

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

Operating a Youth Homelessness Prevention Program: A Case Study from the P3 Pilot in Sacramento, California

Caitlin Grey and Melissa Mack

Medicare Payment for Telehealth

Neetu Jain and Deborah Chollet

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

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

Designs for Measuring How the School Breakfast Program Affects Learning

Jonathan Jacobson, Ronette Briefel, Philip Gleason and Rachel Sullivan

Medicare+Choice Becomes Medicare Advantage: Will Past Be Prologue?

Marsha Gold

Medicare+Choice in California: Lessons and Insights

Marsha Gold and Timothy Lake

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

James M. Verdier

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

School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study III: Public-Use File Documentation, Version 2

Anne Gordon, Elizabeth Condon, Melissa Clark, Karin Zeller, Elaine Hill, Ander Wilson and Ronette Briefel

Practice Strategies to Improve Primary Care for Chronic Disease Patients Under a Pay-for-Value Program

Dori A. Cross, Paige Nong, Christy Harris-Lemak, Genna R. Cohen, Ariel Linden and Julia Adler-Milstein

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

Sheila Hoag and Judith Wooldridge

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

Exploiting Spatial Dependence to Improve Measurement of Neighborhood Social Processes

Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz and Stephen W. Raudenbush

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

Student Victimization in U.S. Schools: Results from the 2013 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey

Deborah Lessne, Melissa Cidade, Amy Gerke, Karlesha Roland and Michael Sinclair

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

Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore

Neither Easy Nor Cheap

Sheena McConnell, Peter Schochet and Alberto Martini

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

Rebekah Selekman and Pamela Holcomb

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

Promoting Maternal and Child Health Through Health Text Messaging: An Evaluation of the Text4baby Program (Summary of Key Findings)

Mathematica Policy Research

Summary Report from the DEHPG 2014 LTSS Research Summit

Carol Irvin

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

Equity, Inclusivity, and Innovative Digital Technologies to Improve Adolescent and Young Adult Health

Sonoo Thadaney Israni, Michael E. Matheny, Ryan Matlow and Danielle Whicher

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

Debra A. Strong

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

Ellen Goldring, Mollie Rubin and Mariesa Herrmann

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

Robert C. Whitaker and Sean M. Orzol

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

Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown

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

Examining Attrition in the Physician Component of the Community Tracking Study

Frank Potter, Michael Sinclair and Steve Williams

The National Children's Study Research Plan: A Review

Paul Guerino

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

Emily Moiduddin, Celina Kamler, Lizabeth Malone and Kathryn Gonzalez

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

Deirdre McCaughey, Samantha Stalley and Eric Williams

Reaching the Underserved Elderly and Working Poor in SNAP: Evaluation Findings from the Fiscal Year 2009 Pilots

Jacqueline Kauff, Lisa Dragoset, Elizabeth Clary, Elizabeth Laird, Libby Makowsky and Emily Sama-Miller

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

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

Silvie Colman and Ted Joyce

Food Security and Food Access Among Emergency Food Pantry Households

James Mabli and David Jones

Outcomes of Cancer Surgeries, Appendix B: Detailed Tables

Eric Schone

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

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

Where the Jobs Are: Using Real-Time LMI for Green Jobs

Elizabeth Laird, Brittany English and Jillian Berk

The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Implementation Lessons

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

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

Susanne James-Burdumy

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

Brian Goesling

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

Debra Lipson

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

Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Approaches to Integrating Programs for Young Children in Two States

Gretchen Kirby, Kimberly Boller and Heather Zaveri

Participation in Math Corps Increases College Enrollment

Barbara Harris and Lindsay Fox

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

Amang Sukasih, Donsig Jang and David Edson

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

David C. Stapleton

Cross-Site Evaluation Update: Cost Analysis

Andrew Burwick

Who Will Educate Our Nurses? A Strategy to Address the Nurse Faculty Shortage in New Jersey

Angela M. Gerolamo, Amy Overcash, Jennifer McGovern, Grace Roemer and Susan Bakewell-Sachs

Hunger in America 2010 National Report Prepared for Feeding America

James Mabli, Rhoda Cohen, Frank Potter and Zhanyun Zhao

Quick Steps to Improve Programs Using Behavioral Insights

Matthew Darling, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Samia Amin, Greg Chojnacki and Irma Perez-Johnson

Market Signals: Evidence on the Determinants and Consequences of School Choice from a Citywide Lottery (Journal Article)

Steven Glazerman and Dallas Dotter

Medicaid Managed Care in Rural Areas: A Ten-State Follow-Up Study

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Pam Silberman, Sheila Hoag and Rebecca Slifkin

Reforming School Discipline: School-Level Policy Implementation and the Consequences for Suspended Students and Their Peers

Matthew P. Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jan Anderson

Shrinkage of Value-Added Estimates and Characteristics of Students with Hard-to-Predict Achievement Levels

Mariesa Herrmann, Elias Walsh, Eric Isenberg and Alexandra Resch

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

Matías Busso, Julián Cristia and Sarah Humpage

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

E. Jason Baron and Max Gross

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

Stephanie M. Jones and Jennifer Kahn

Multi-Armed RCTs: A Design-Based Framework

Peter Z. Schochet

Payment Models and Benefit Design

Deborah Chollet

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

What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?

Eric J. Isenberg

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

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

The Association Between Maltreatment and Obesity Among Preschool Children

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

The Power of Nutrition: How It Is Working and Early Learnings

Anitha Sivasankaran, Anu Rangarajan, Nikita Ramchandani and Heather Ingraham

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

Debbie Peikes

Challenges and Successes of Pregnancy Assistance Fund Programs Supporting Young Fathers

Katherine Niland and Rebekah Selekman

A National Assessment of Children with Special Health Care Needs: Prevalence of Special Needs and Use of Health Care Services Among Children in the Military Health System

Thomas V. Williams, Eric M. Schone, Nancy D. Archibald and Joseph W. Thompson

Impacts of the 2010 VA PTSD Rule Change on Participation in SSA Disability Programs

Kara Contreary, Jennifer Tennant and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Electricity-Transmission and Distribution Line-Extension Activity in Tanzania: Baseline Report

Duncan Chaplin, Arif Mamun and John Schurrer

En Bsqueda De Soluciones: Mejorando El Servicio Mdico Para Las Personas Con Dominio Limitado Del Ingls En Connecticut

Ann Bagchi and Beth Stevens

QRS Profile: Colorado Qualistar

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Securing Coverage for Children by Advocating for the ACA: Experience from the KidsWell Grantees in New Mexico and New York

Sheila Hoag, Debra Lipson, Michaella Morzuch and Victoria Peebles

Using Coaching and Navigation to Promote Economic Mobility: How Might Programs Provide These Services Virtually?

Mary Anne Anderson and Michelle Derr

Forming a Team to Ensure High-Quality Measurement in Education Studies

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Kimberly Boller

Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care in Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs: Significance and Resources for Grantees

Melissa Azur and Heather Zaveri

Advancing Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Toolkit on Recognizing and Conducting Opportunistic Experiments in the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Policy Area

Alicia Meckstroth, Alexandra Resch, Jonathan McCay, Michelle Derr, Jillian Berk and Lauren Akers

Evaluation of the Nutrition Assistance Program in Puerto Rico, Volume II: Effects on Food Expenditures and Diet Quality

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Independent Evaluation of Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Second Annual Report: Appendices to the Supplemental Volume

Arkadipta Ghosh, Sean Orzol, Stacy Dale, Jessica Laird, Ning Fu, Pragya Singh, Min-Young Kim, Amanda Markovitz, Kaylyn Swankoski, Nancy Duda, Rachel Machta, Carol Urato, Mariel Finucane, Lauren Vollmer, Constance Delannoy, Lee-Lee Ellis, Grace Oh, Brianna Sullivan, Dana Jean-Baptiste, Ann O'Malley, Rosalind Keith, Randall Brown, Grace Anglin, Deborah Peikes and Et Al.

Characteristics of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Provider Network: Implications for Access to Care Under the Affordable Care Act

Ellen Bouchery, Boyd Gilman, Sylvia Trent-Adams and Laura Cheever

Does Weighting for Nonresponse Increase the Variance of Survey Means? (Conference Paper)

Roderick J. Little and Sonya Vartivarian

Electronic Health Records Demonstration Office Systems Survey: Spring 2011

Mathematica Policy Research

Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Frameworks for Early Care and Education Systems Change

Diane Schaak, Kate Tarrant, Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

How Accountable Care Organizations Use Population Segmentation to Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients

Ann S. O’Malley, Eugene C. Rich, Rumin Sarwar, Eli Schultz, W. Cannon Warren, Tanya Shah and Melinda K. Abrams

Tips for Supporting Elementary Writing Skills at Home

Christine Ross

Evaluation of the Burkina Faso Agriculture Development Project: Design Report

Christopher Ksoll, Chantal Toledo, Seth Morgan, Anca Dumitrescu and Kristen Velyvis

Administrative Experiments: Unlocking What Works Better and What Works for Whom

Scott Cody, Irma Perez-Johnson and Kristen Joyce

Health Information Technology in the United States: Driving Toward Delivery System Change, 2012

Catherine M. DesRoches, Michael W. Painter and Ashish K. Jha