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

Emily Kazyak and Mathew Stange

Math Corps Successfully Replicated

Barbara Harris and Lindsay Fox

Repealing or Replacing the ACA’s Provisions: How Would Adults with Disabilities Fare?

Purvi Sevak, Jody Schimmel Hyde and Matthew Kehn

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

24 Million and Counting: Reflections on 40 Years of Head Start Research in Support of Children and Families'

John M. Love

Assessment of the Quality of State SNAP Administrative Data

Karen Cunnyngham

Medicare Advantage 2004 Payment Increases Resulting from the Medicare Modernization Act

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

Higher Practice Intensity Is Associated with Higher Quality of Care but More Avoidable Admissions for Medicare Beneficiaries (Journal Article)

Bruce E. Landon, A. James O'Malley, M. Richard McKellar, Jack Hadley and James D. Reschovsky

Comparison of With-Replacement and Without-Replacement Variance Estimates for a Complex Survey

Frank J. Potter, Stephen Williams, Nuria Diaz-Tena, James Reschovsky and Elizabeth Schaefer

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

Orthogonal Design: A Powerful Method for Comparative Effectiveness Research with Multiple Interventions

Jelena Zurovac and Randy Brown

Disability Benefits for Veterans: Interactions Among Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Social Security Administration Programs

John Kregel and Lucy Miller

Longitudinal Statistics for New Supplemental Security Income Beneficiaries

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, David Stapleton, Dawn Phelps and Maura Bardos

Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries 2008 Annual Report

Kristin Andrews, Katherine Bencio, Jonathan David Brown, Leslie Jackson Conwell, Cheryl Fahlman and Eric Schone

Integrating Positive Youth Development into PREP Programming

Kristin A. Moore, Andrea Vazzano, Isabel Griffith, Mindy E. Scott and Deana Around Him

Expanding Employer Engagement and Job Placement

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

State-By-State Mental Health Services and Expenditures in Medicaid, 1999

James Verdier, Ann Cherlow, Allison Barrett, Jeffrey Buck and Judith Teich

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2009 SNAP QC Database and QC Minimodel

Joshua Leftin, Andrew Gothro, Esa Eslami, Daisy Ewell and Katherine Bencio

Research Motivations and Undergraduate Researchers’ Disciplinary Identity

Shannon N. Davis and Sarah E. Wagner

Synthesis of Findings on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment in Five States

Sheila D. Hoag

Evaluation of Oakland Unite: Year 1 Strategy Report

Naihobe Gonzalez, Johanna Lacoe, Ebo Dawson-Andoh, Armando Yañez, Natasha Nicolai and Sarah Crissey

Promoting Children’s Physical Activity in Low-Income Communities in Colorado: What Are the Barriers and Opportunities?

Daniel M. Finkelstein, Dana M. Petersen and Lisa S. Schottenfeld

A Broader View: The National Evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, Design Report, Volume I

Mark Dynarski, Susanne James-Burdumy, Wendy Mansfield, Daniel P. Mayer, Mary T. Moore, John Mullens, Tim Silva, Carol Pistorino and Douglas Hermond

Nebraska Health Network’s Data Management System for Improving Quality and Reducing Costs (Case Study)

Mario Gruszczynski, Natalie Graves and Sonya Streeter

Analysis of Reform Models for Extending Health Care Coverage in New Mexico

Deborah Chollet and Lee Reynis

Can Vertically Integrated Health Systems Provide Greater Value: The Case of Hospitals Under the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model?

Rachel M. Machta, James Reschovsky, David J. Jones, Michael F. Furukawa and Eugene C. Rich

The Impact of Quality-Reporting Programs on Hospital Operations

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

How Are the Experiences of Individuals with Severe Mental Illness Different from Those of Other Medicaid Buy-In Participants?

Su Liu and Sarah Croake

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

Roderick J. Little and Sonya Vartivarian

Feasibility of a Single-Payer Health Plan Model for the State of Maine

Deborah Chollet, Glen Mays, January Angeles, RolMcDevitt and Ryan Lore

Case Study of Virginia: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Embry Howell, Christopher Trenholm, Kathy Gifford and Bridget Lavin

Capacity Building for Strategic Learning: Findings from the Pilot Cohort

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

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): 2000, Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Policy Opportunities to Improve Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Perinatal Mental Health Conditions

Jennifer E. Moore, Monica R. McLemore, Nadia Glenn and Kara Zivin

Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: Design for an Implementation Study of "Pathways to Success"

Rosalind Keith, Rebekah Selekman and Andrew Burwick

Career Ladders and Pathways for the Hard-to-Employ

Alison Gash and Melissa Mack

A Focused Look at Rural Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants

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

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

Sarah Jones, Monica Martinez and Cindy Cai

Pathways to Using Health Services Research (HSR) in Policymaking: Lessons for Getting Beyond the Black Box

Marsha Gold

Measuring Employment of People with Disabilities

David Wittenburg

Disease Management Options: Issues for State Medicaid Programs to Consider

Randall Brown and Arnold Chen

Managed Long Term Care: Options for New York and Examples from Other States

James M. Verdier

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

Data Equity to Advance Health and Health Equity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review

So O'Neil, Sydney Taylor and Anitha Sivasankaran

Value for the Money Spent? Exploring the Relationship Between Medicaid Costs and Quality

Debra Lipson, Margaret Colby, Tim Lake, Su Liu and Sarah Turchin

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Three Years (Final Report)

Alison Wellington, Hanley Chiang, Kristin Hallgren, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann and Paul Burkander

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

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

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

Diane Schaak, Kate Tarrant, Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Transitions Across the Marketplace, Medicaid, and CHIP: How Similar are Primary Care Physician Networks Across Programs?

Cara Orfield, Lauren Hula and Michael Barna

Impacts on Employment and Earnings

Paul T. Decker, Christopher O'Leary and Stephen Woodbury

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

Ann Bagchi and Beth Stevens

Taking a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program to the Home: The AIM 4 Teen Moms Experience, Implementation Report

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

Choices, Challenges, and Options: Child SSI Recipients Preparing for the Transition to Adult Life

Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg

State-By-State Medicaid Pharmacy Data for 1999: Perspectives and Opportunities

Jim Verdier

Posttransition Experiences of Former Child SSI Recipients

Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg

Phased Development of a Modern Gateway for Disability Benefits

David C. Stapleton, Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David R. Mann

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

Elizabeth Woodburn Cavadel and Douglas A. Frye

Design with Care: School Information Displays Can Impact School Choices

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Steven Glazerman and Jon Valant

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

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

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

Associations Between Practice-Reported Medical Homeness and Health Care Utilization Among Publicly Insured Children

Anna L. Christensen, Joseph S. Zickafoose, Brenda Natzke, Stacey McMorrow and Henry T. Ireys

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

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

Assessing Cultural Perspectives on Healthcare Quality

Ann D. Bagchi, Raquel af Ursin and Alicia Leonard

New Data on the Nutritional Quality of School Lunches (In Focus Brief)

Mary Kay Fox

Building Strong Ready to Learn Outreach

Cheri Vogel, Kimberly Boller, Stacey Uhl and Lindsay Dobrzynski

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

Jonathan D. Brown and Lawrence S. Wissow

Tips for Supporting Elementary Writing Skills at Home

Christine Ross

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

Household Food Security in the United States, 1995-1997: Technical Issues and Statistical Report

James Ohls, Larry Radbill and Allen Schirm

An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification

Jill Constantine, Daniel Player, Tim Silva, Kristin Hallgren, Mary Grider and John Deke

Head Start Children’s Developmental Progress and Kindergarten Experiences

Nikki Aikens, Lizabeth Malone, Ashley Kopack Klein, Jerry West and Louisa Tarullo

Medicare Advantage 2012 Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

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

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

State Partnership Initiative: Characteristics of Participants Enrolled Through March 2003

Deborah Peikes and Nora Paxton

Forging Successful Partnerships Between Health Plans and States

James M. Verdier

Energy and Fat Intakes of Children and Adolescents in the United States: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys

Richard P. Troiano, Ronette Briefel, Margaret D. Carroll and Karil Bialostosky

Using Promotion Power to Identify the Effectiveness of Public High Schools in the District of Columbia

Max Gross, Menbere Shiferaw, Jonah Deutsch and Brian Gill

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

Melissa Azur and Heather Zaveri

Statistical Power for the Comparative Regression Discontinuity Design with a Pretest No-Treatment Control Function: Theory and Evidence from the National Head Start Impact Study

Yang Tang and Thomas D. Cook

Electronic Health Records Demonstration Office Systems Survey: Spring 2011

Mathematica Policy Research

State Agencies’ Use of Administrative Data for Improved Practice: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities

Scott W. Allard, Emily R. Wiegand, Colleen Schlecht, A. Rupa Datta, Robert M. Goerge and Elizabeth Weigensberg

Measuring Multi-Dimensional Change: Challenges and Opportunities in The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program (Presentation)

Barry Burciul and Matt Sloan

Indicators of Child Family and Community Connections

Various Authors

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

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

Marsha Gold and Maria Cupples Hudson

Survey Data Collection in Sub†Saharan Africa (SSA): Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities

Sarah M. Hughes and Yu†chieh (Jay) Lin

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

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

Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students' Academic Behaviors and Mindsets

David Blazar and Matthew Kraft

Choosing Wisely: Selecting Outcomes for Comparative Effectiveness Research on Services for Adults with Disabilities

Debra J. Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Eugene Rich

The School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: Public Use Documentation, Volume I: School-Level Data

Dexter Chu and John Burghardt

The Underappreciated Success of Home-Based Primary Care: Next Steps for CMS' Independence at Home

Laura Kimmey and Valerie Cheh

Associations Between American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Status and Performance on a Set of Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set Process Measures

Bradley Gray, Jonathan Vandergrift, Bruce Landon, James Reschovsky and Rebecca Lipner

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Michelle Derr

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

Gina A. Livermore and Maura Bardos

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

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

Scott Cody, Irma Perez-Johnson and Kristen Joyce

Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Interventions on Schooling Outcomes Among Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Lusaka, Zambia (Working Paper)

Minki Chatterji, Paul Hutchinson, Nancy Murray, Kathy Buek, Yvonne Mulenga and Tom Ventimiglia

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

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore