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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

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

Measurement and Evaluation Checklist: Design the Solution (Phase 1)

Ryan Ruggiero, Mikia Manley, Virginia Knechtel, Kate Place and Megan Shoji

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

Deirdre McCaughey, Samantha Stalley and Eric Williams

Spotlight on Maine

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

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

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

Neither Easy Nor Cheap

Sheena McConnell, Peter Schochet and Alberto Martini

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

David Wittenburg, Charles Michalopoulos and Robert Weathers (Speakers)

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

Alicia Meckstroth

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

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

Ryan Ruggiero, Katie Eddins and Benjamin Christensen

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

Strategies for Increasing TANF Work Participation Rates: Summary Report

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

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

Andrew Burwick and Diane Paulsell

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

Steven Glazerman and Dallas Dotter

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

Esteban J. Quiñones, Sabine Liebenehm and Rasadhika Sharma

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

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

Jonathan Brown, Carol Urato and Precious Ogbuefi

The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Prices and Product Availability

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

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

Sheila Hoag and Judith Wooldridge

Healthy People (HP) 2010 Disparity Elimination Goals: Case Studies of State Efforts

Marsha Gold

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

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

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

Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement in KIPP Middle Schools

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Brian P. Gill, Philip Gleason and Christina Clark Tuttle

The Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: Interim Report

Barbara Devaney, Amy Johnson, Rebecca Maynard and Christopher Trenholm

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

Employment Research in Brief: An Annotated Bibliography of ETA-Sponsored Studies

Annalisa Mastri, Emily Evans, Stacy Pancratz and Carrie Wolfson

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

David C. Stapleton

Choice Varies Widely for Beneficiaries

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

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

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

Health Information Exchange: The Role of Safety-Net Providers

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Melanie Au and Patricia Higgins

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

Caitlin Grey and Melissa Mack

Summary Report from the DEHPG 2014 LTSS Research Summit

Carol Irvin

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

Matías Busso, Julián Cristia and Sarah Humpage

Potential Assistance for Disadvantaged Workers: Employment Social Enterprises

Nan L. Maxwell and Dana Rotz

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

Sara Bernstein, Jerry West, Rebecca Newsham and Maya Reid

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

James M. Verdier

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

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

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

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

Debra Lipson

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

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

Stephanie M. Jones and Jennifer Kahn

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

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

Ankita Patnaik, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Arif Mamun

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

Brian Goesling

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

Anitha Sivasankaran, Anu Rangarajan, Nikita Ramchandani and Heather Ingraham

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

Craig Thornton

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

A National Survey of the Arrangements Managed-Care Plans Make with Physicians

Marsha R. Gold, Robert Hurley, Timothy Lake, Todd Ensor and Robert Berenson

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

Pathways Clearinghouse Guide for Researchers

Leah Shiferaw, Diana McCallum and Dana Rotz

Measuring Children's Progress from Preschool Through Third Grade

Sally Atkins-Burnett

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

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

The Early Experience of the Charlestown Communities Case Management Program

Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore

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

Emily Moiduddin, Celina Kamler, Lizabeth Malone and Kathryn Gonzalez

Food Security and Food Access Among Emergency Food Pantry Households

James Mabli and David Jones

State Differences in the Vocational Rehabilitation Experiences of Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities

Todd Honeycutt, Allison Thompkins, Maura Bardos and Steven Stern

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

Matthew P. Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe

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

Anna Aizer and Marsha Gold

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

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

Rachel Miller and Kara Contreary

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

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

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

Steven Glazerman, Tim Silva and Neil Seftor

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

Todd Honeycutt, Maura Bardos and Stephanie McLeod

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

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

The Association Between Maltreatment and Obesity Among Preschool Children

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

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

David Stapleton and Jennifer Christian

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

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2001

Christina Tuttle and Daisy Ewell

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

Elizabeth Laird, Brittany English and Jillian Berk

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

Establishing and Managing a Successful Special Needs Program

James Verdier

Early Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Findings from Exploratory Site Visits and Review of Program Plans

Demetra Smith Nightingale, Terri Thompson, Nancy Pindus, Pamela Holcomb, Edgar Lee, Jesse Valente and John Trutko

Care Coordination for Children with Special Needs in Medicaid: Lessons from Medicare

Kate A. Stewart, Katharine W.V. Bradley, Joseph S. Zickafoose, Rachel Hildrich, Henry T. Ireys and Randall S. Brown

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

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

Considerations for and Lessons Learned from Online, Synchronous Focus Groups

Sarah G. Forrestal, Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo and Lisa Klein Vogel

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

Margo Rosenbach and Kimball Lewis

Menu of Measures: High-Quality Measures of Middle Years Math Student Outcomes

Julie Bruch, Jasmine Forde, Ijun Lai and Veronica Sotelo Muñoz

Background of the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study

John Burghardt and Barbara L. Devaney

Evaluation of a Medicaid Psychotropic Drug Management Program in Utah

Dominick Esposito and James M. Verdier

A Focused Look at Rural Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants

Linda Rosenberg, Megan Davis Christianson, Megan Hague Angus and Emily Rosenthal

Tightening Income Documentation in a Means-Tested Program: Who Stays Away? (Journal Article)

Philip Gleason, John Burghardt, Paul Strasberg and Lara Hulsey

Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program

Leslie Foster, Barbara Phillips and Jennifer Schore

Medicare Advantage 2012 Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

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

Mathematica

Building Strong Ready to Learn Outreach

Cheri Vogel, Kimberly Boller, Stacey Uhl and Lindsay Dobrzynski

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

Marsha Gold and Maria Cupples Hudson

How Changes in Washington University's Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Pilot Ultimately Achieved Savings

Deborah Peikes, Greg Peterson, Randall S. Brown, Sandy Graff and John P. Lynch

Kauffman Firm Survey Fourth Follow-Up: Draft Questionnaire

David DesRoches

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

Danielle Chelminsky

Medicaid Populations with Chronic and Disabling Conditions: A Compilation of Data on Their Characteristics, Health Conditions, Service Use, and Medicaid Payments

Carol V. Irvin and Christopher Johnson

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1998 (Issue Brief)

Laura Castner and Jacquelyn Anderson

Measuring Employment of People with Disabilities

David Wittenburg

Impacts of the National Health Service Corps: A Survival Analysis

Thomas R. Konrad, Kirsten Leysieffer, Rose Marie Martinez, Richard Niska and Barbara L. Wells