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A Portrait of American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Families

Meryl Yoches Barofsky, Nina Chien, Lizabeth Malone, Sara Bernstein and Kaitlyn Mumma

A Review of Household Behaviors for Preventing Obesity in Children

Robert C. Whitaker

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2018

Kathryn Cronquist

The PSIPSE: 2016 Monitoring Results, Appendices

Swetha Sridharan, Clemencia Cosentino and Laura Meyer

The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Evaluation: Findings on Children's Health Insurance Coverage in an Evolving Health Care Landscape

Mary E. Harrington

Updated Nutrition Standards Have Significantly Improved the Nutritional Quality of School Lunches and Breakfasts

Elizabeth Gearan and Mary Kay Fox

Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programming for Youth and Individual Adults: Highlights from the Second FRAMING Research Healthy Marriage Technical Work Group

Julia Alamillo and Lexi Ouellette

Exploration of Integrated Approaches to Supporting Child Development and Improving Family Economic Security

Emily Sama-Miller, Christine Ross, Teresa Eckrich Sommer, Scott Baumgartner, Lily Roberts and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

What Determines Progress in State MFP Transition Programs?

Debra J. Lipson, Christal Stone Valenzano and Susan R. Williams

Tips to Improve Medicare-Medicaid Integration Using D-SNPs: Using Medicare Program Audit Reports to Improve Managed Care Organization Oversight

Ryan Stringer and Nancy Archibald

Overview of Payment Models

Deborah Chollet

Implementing Employment Retention Services in Pennsylvania: Lessons from Community Solutions

Diane Paulsell and Ali Stieglitz

Is Timing Everything? Disability Onset of Youth and Their Outcomes as Young Adults (Journal Article)

David R. Mann and Todd C. Honeycutt

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2015

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

Implementing Case Management with Positive Youth Development to Empower Young Mothers in California

Subuhi Asheer, Betsy Keating, Jacqueline Crowley and Susan Zief

Spotlight on Florida

Dana Petersen, Embry Howell, Christal Ramos, Emily Lawton and Amanda Napoles

Spillover of Ratings of Patient- and Family-Centered Care

Anna L. Christensen, Jonathan Brown, Lawrence S. Wissow and Benjamin Cook

Evaluation of Waivers Granted Under WIA: Findings from Interviews with 20 States

Gretchen Rowe, Jillian Berk and Jessica Ziegler

Impact of Pneumococcal Vaccination on Pneumonia Hospitalizations and Related Costs in Ontario: A Population-Based Ecological Study

Dara Lee Luca, Jeffrey C. Kwong, Anna Chu, Beate Sander, Ryan O’Reilly, Allison J. McGeer and David Bloom

Paying More for Primary Care: Can It Help Bend the Medicare Cost Curve? (Issue Brief)

James D. Reschovsky, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kate Stewart and Deborah Chollet

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 1 Transcript: NIH)

Marina Volkov, Ajay Vatave, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

How the DC Council can Help Shape the Future of Education Data

Steven Glazerman

Trends in Health Plans Serving Medicaid: 2000 Data Update

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Rebecca Dodge and Megan McHugh

Mental Health Communications Skills Training for Medical Assistants in Pediatric Primary Care

Jonathan D. Brown, Lawrence S. Wissow, Benjamin L. Cook, Shaina Longway, Emily Caffery and Chris Pefaure

Firm-Level Early Intervention Incentives: Which Recent Employers of Disability Program Entrants Would Pay More? (Journal Article)

David C. Stapleton, David R. Mann, Pragya Singh and Jae Song

Rwanda Research Design Report (Memo)

Matt Sloan and Ira Nichols-Barrer

Setting Achievable Training and Employment Goals and Demonstrating Progress

Kara Conroy, Elizabeth Brown, Nickie Fung, Jessica Harding, Jeanette Holdbrook, Max Rankin and Grace Roemer

Developing Reliable and Valid Measures of Implementation to Support High Quality in Early Care and Education Centers

Shannon Monahan, Gretchen Kirby and Katie Gonzalez

Do Typical RCTs of Education Interventions Have Sufficient Statistical Power for Linking Impacts on Teacher Practice and Student Achievement Outcomes? (Journal Article)

Peter Z. Schochet

The Role of the Physician in the Return-to-Work Process Following Disability Onset

Jacob Denne, George Kettner and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Strategies for Integrating and Coordinating Care for Behavioral Health Populations: Case Studies of Four States

Kristin Andrews, Jonathan D. Brown Tara Ferragamo, Rebecca Kleinman, Rebecca Newsham and Allison Wishon Siegwarth

Research Design Report for the Evaluation of the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Grant Program

Randall Brown, Carol Irvin, Debra Lipson, Sam Simon and Audra Wenzlow

Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Programs: Preparing for and Supporting Program Implementation

Theresa Neelan, Danielle DeLisle and Susan Zief

Evaluation of the Santa Clara Children's Health Initiative: Key Findings

Christopher Trenholm

Health Care Access for Low-Income People: Significant Safety Net Gaps Remain

Laurie E. Felland, Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Megan McHugh

Engine of Change or One Force Among Many? Section 1115 Demonstration Projects and Trends in Medicaid Expenditures

Barbara A. Ormond, Leighton Ku and Brian Bruen

Measuring Medical Homeness Using the Medical Home Attributes Scale (MHAS)

Michael T. Halpern, Kevin W. Smith, Nancy McCall, Yiyan Liu and Suzanne G. Wensky

Toddlers in Early Head Start: A Portrait of 2-Year-Olds, Their Families, and the Programs Serving Them (Executive Summary)

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

SCHIP Takes a Bite Out of the Dental Access Gap for Low-Income Children

Shanna Shulman, Megan Kell and Margo Rosenbach

Impacts of a Disease Management Program for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries

Dominick Esposito, Randall Brown, Arnold Chen, Jennifer Schore and Rachel Shapiro

Development of Claims†Based Measures of Unplanned Acute Care with Superior Power for Assessing the Effectiveness of Interventions Following Acute Care

Arnold Chen, Laura Blue, Jason Tilipman and Nancy McCall

The Case for Public Investment in Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Programs

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and Hannah Burak

How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Working Together to Improve the Quality of Health Care for Children?

Dana Petersen, Henry Ireys, Grace Ferry and Leslie Foster

Case Study of a Job Training, Housing, and Family Support Program for Young Mothers: New Moms

Marisa Putnam and Liza Rodler

Social Enterprises, Economic Self-Sufficiency, and Life Stability (In Focus Brief)

Nan Maxwell, Dana Rotz and Adam Dunn

National Beneficiary Survey Round 3 Public Use Data File

Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones

New Evidence on DI Overpayments Following Return to Work and Implications for Initiatives to Reduce Them

Denise Hoffman and Christopher Jones

Child Health and Access to Medical Care (Journal Article)

Lindsey Leininger and Helen Levy

Privatization of Welfare Services: A Review of the Literature

Pamela Winston, Andrew Burwick, Sheena McConnell and Richard Roper

Medicare Advantage: Early Views and Trend Spotting: What We Know from Analyzing Public Data Files

Marsha Gold

Trends in Diabetes Prevalence and Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries in Maryland, 2002

Angela Merrill

Evaluation of Medicare Part D Late Enrollment Penalty Demonstration for Low-Income Subsidy Applicants and Residents Affected by Hurricane Katrina

Boyd Gilman and Candace Natoli

How a Practice Facilitator Can Support Your Practice (Tip Sheet)

Kristin Geonnotti, Erin Fries Taylor, Deborah Peikes, Lisa Schottenfeld, Hannah Burak, Robert McNellis and Janice Genevro

Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues

Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs of which John L. Czajka was a Member

Use of Out-of-Home Care Among a Statewide Population of Children and Youth Enrolled in Medicaid

Jonathan D. Brown, Morris Hamilton, Brenda Natzke, Henry T. Ireys and Matthew Gillingham

Efforts to Diversify the STEM Workforce

Clemencia Cosentino

Giving Ex-Offenders a Choice in Life: First Findings from the Beneficiary Choice Demonstration

Jeanne Bellotti, Michelle Derr and Nora Paxton

National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 5: (Volume 2 of 3) Data Cleaning and Identification of Data Problems

Sara Skidmore, Debra Wright, Kirsten Barrett and Eric Grau

Evaluation of the Kigoma Solar Activity in Tanzania: Final Report

Divya Vohra, Edith Felix, Duncan Chaplin and Arif Mamun

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative: Third Annual Report

Deborah Peikes, Grace Anglin, Erin Fries Taylor, Stacy Dale, Ann O'Malley, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kaylyn Swankoski, Lara Converse, Rosalind Keith, Mariel Finucane, Jesse Crosson, Anne Mutti, Thomas Grannemann, Aparajita Zutshi and Randall Brown

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the Orange County Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold, Cheryl Young and Beth Stevens

What Happens to Medicaid Buy-In Participants After They Leave the Program?

Su Liu and Silvie Colman

Evaluation of Home and Community Based Waiver Program Survey Methodology

Larry P. Snell, Zhanyun Zhao, Cathy Lu, Frank Potter and Anne B. Ciemnecki

Aftershocks of Chile's Earthquake on an Ongoing, Large-Scale Experimental Evaluation

Lorenzo Moreno

Using TANF Funds to Support Subsidized Youth Employment: The 2010 Summer Youth Employment Initiative

Linda Rosenberg, Megan Hague Angus, Cassandra Pickens and Michelle Derr

Student Characteristics and Achievement in 22 KIPP Middle Schools

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

Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees in Nursing Facilities: Issues and Options for States

Laura D. Kimmey and James M. Verdier

Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Services Demonstration Evaluation: Volume 1

Crystal Blyler, Melissa Azur, Bonnie O'Day, Priyanka Anand, Allison Barrett, Kavita Choudhry, Kara Contreary, Sarah Croake, Molly Crofton, Noelle Denny-Brown, Brian Johnston, Jasmine Little, Jennifer Lyons, Brenda Natzke, Stephanie Peterson, Max Rubinstein, Allison Siegwarth, James Woerheide and Kara Zivin

Discussion of Sensitive Health Topics with Youth During Primary Care Visits: Relationship to Youth Perceptions of Care

Jonathan D. Brown and Lawrence S. Wissow

Capacity Building for Strategic Learning Using an Intermediary-Led Grantee Cohort Model: Recommendations for Funders

Emily Gardner, Emma Pottinger, Ramya Tallapragada, Alexandra Resch and Virginia Knechtel

Does Student Attrition Explain KIPP's Success?

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

Is the Unemployment Insurance System a Safety Net for Welfare Recipients Who Exit Welfare for Work?

Anu Rangarajan, Walter Corson and Robert G. Wood

Measuring Progress in the Classroom: How Do Different Student Growth Measures Compare? (Fact Sheet)

Jeffrey Terziev and Elias Walsh

Longitudinal Analysis of the Effectiveness of DCPS Teachers

Elias Walsh and Dallas Dotter

Tailored Teaching: Emerging Themes from the Literature on Teachers' Use of Ongoing Child Assessment to Individualize Instruction

Lauren Akers, Patricia Del Grosso, Emily Snell, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Barbara A. Wasik, Judith Carta, Kimberly Boller and Shannon Monahan

Impacts of a School†Wide, Peer†Led Approach to Sexuality Education: A Matched Comparison Group Design

Dana Rotz, Brian Goesling, Jennifer Manlove, Kate Welti and Christopher Trenholm

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

Anitha Sivasankaran, Anu Rangarajan, Nikita Ramchandani and Heather Ingraham

Electricity in Zanzibar's Unguja Island: Initial Evaluation Findings

Denzel Hankinson, Lauren Pierce, Duncan Chaplin, Arif Mamun, Minki Chatterji, Shawn Powers and Elana Safran

Lower Intent to Comply with COVID-19 Public Health Recommendations Correlates to Higher Disease Burden in Following 30 Days

Robert P. Lennon, Aleksandra E. Zgierska, Erin L. Miller, Bethany Snyder, Aparna Keshaviah, Cindy Hu, Hanzhi Zhou and Lauren Jodi Van Scoy

Stable Coverage Benefits Healthy Kids Children

Christopher Trenholm

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2002 (Professional Paper)

Melissa Faux, Randy Rosso and Daisy Ewell

Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements for Children Age 6–24 Months

Clair Null, Elizabeth L. Prado, Charles D. Arnold, K. Ryan Wessells, Christine P. Stewart, Souheila Abbeddou, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Benjamin F. Arnold, Ulla Ashorn, Per Ashorn, Elodie Becquey, Kenneth H. Brown, Jaya Chandna, Parul Christian, Holly N. Dentz, Sherlie J. L. Dulience, Lia C. H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Lotta Hallamaa, Sonja Y. Hess, Lieven Huybregts, Lora L. Iannotti, Elizabeth Y. Jimenez, Patricia Kohl, Anna Lartey, Agnes Le Port, Stephen P. Luby, Kenneth Maleta, Andrew Matchado, Susana L. Matias, Malay K. Mridha, Robert Ntozini, Maku E. Ocansey, Sarker M. Parvez, John Phuka, Amy J. Pickering, Andrew J. Prendergast, Abu A. Shamim, Zakia Siddiqui, Fahmida Tofail, Ann M. Weber, Lee S. F. Wu and Kathryn G. Dewey

Emergency Food Pantry Use Among SNAP Households with Children (Issue Brief)

Julie Worthington and James Mabli

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services under the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Designing Benefits and Estimating Costs

Embry Howell, Sara Roschwalb and Miki Satake

National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 5: Public Use File Codebook

Charles Bush, Ryan Callahan and Jason Markesich

Unemployment Insurance: Strengthening the Relationship Between Theory and Policy

Walter Nicholson and Karen Needels

How to Assess and Address Technical Assistance Needs: Insights from the Literature and Practice

Mary Anne Anderson, Jesse Chandler, Annalisa Mastri, Amanda Benton and Gretchen Lehman

Guide to Measuring Implementation: The 3Us – Usability, Usefulness, Utilization

Mikia Manley, Virginia Knechtel, Kate Place, Andrew Gothro and Ryan Ruggiero

Improving Children’s Well-Being through Responsible Fatherhood Programs

Ankita Patnaik and Sarah Avellar

Evaluation of the Vocational Training Grant Fund in Namibia: Baseline Report

Evan Borkum, Arif Mamun, Linus Marco and Malik Khan Mubeen

Counting the Uninsured: A Review of the Literature

Kimball Lewis, Marilyn R. Ellwood and John L. Czajka

Small Businesses and Health Reform: Results from a Survey of Five States

Catherine McLaughlin and Adam Swinburn

Tiered Incentive Payments: Getting the Most Bang or Your Buck

Martha D. Kovac and Jason Markesich

Managed Care Redux: Health Plans Shift Responsibilities to Consumers

Debra A. Draper and Gary Claxton

Data Tables for FACES 2006: Head Start Children Go to Kindergarten Report

Lizabeth Malone, Lara Hulsey, Nikki Aikens, Jerry West and Louisa Tarullo

Promoting Positive Parent-Child Relationships Through Early Head Start Home Visits

Cassandra Baxter, Yange Xue and Sally Atkins-Burnett

Family Subgroups and Impacts at Ages 2, 3, and 5: Variability by Race/Ethnicity and Demographic Risk

Helen H. Raikes, Cheri Vogel and John M. Love

State and Local Determinants of Employment Outcomes Among Individuals With Disabilities

Purvi Sevak, John O'Neill, Andrew Houtenville and Debra Brucker

Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science

Tim Kautz, Katherine Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Pepi Pandiloski, Yeji Park, Aneesh Rai, Max Bazerman, John Beshears, Lauri Bonacorsi, Colin Camerer, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Robert Cialdini, Hengchen Dai, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, James J. Gross, Samantha Horn, Alexa Hubbard, Steven J. Jones, Dean Karlan, Erika Kirgios, Joowon Klusowski, Ariella Kristal, Rahul Ladhania, George Loewenstein, Jens Ludwig, Barbara Mellers, Sendhil Mullainathan, Silvia Saccardo, Jann Spiess, Gaurav Suri, Joachim H. Talloen, Jamie Taxer, Yaacov Trope, Lyle Ungar, Kevin G. Volpp, Ashley Whillans, Jonathan Zinman and Angela L. Duckworth

Technical Appendices to Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 1999 to 2005

Kari Wolkwitz