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Treatment Approach and HbA1c Control Among US Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: NHANES 1999-2004

Allison Hedley Dodd, Margaret S. Colby, Kristina S. Boye, Cheryl Fahlman, Sunny Kim and Ronette R. Briefel

Bayesian Interpretation of Cluster-Robust Subgroup Impact Estimates: The Best of Both Worlds

Erin R. Lipman, John Deke and Mariel Finucane

Does Intensive Mentoring Improve Teaching? Results from a Randomized Experiment

Steven Glazerman, Eric Isenberg, Sarah Dolfin, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Mary Grider and Matthew Jacobus

The Impact of Quality-Reporting Programs on Hospital Operations

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

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

Rosalind Keith, Rebekah Selekman and Andrew Burwick

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

The Charlestown Retirement Community Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Nancy Archibald, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol

Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending: Findings Report

Ellen Bouchery, Rick Harwood, Rosalie Malsberger, Emily Caffery, Jessica Nysenbaum and Kerianne Hourihan

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

Understanding College Match Among KIPP Northern California Students

Naihobe Gonzalez and Dan Thal

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

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

Head Start Children’s Developmental Progress and Kindergarten Experiences

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

Assessment of the Quality of State SNAP Administrative Data

Karen Cunnyngham

A Profile of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program: 1998-99. With Selected Data from 1997-98 and 1996-97

Wendy Mansfield, Kathryn Downey Sargent, Margaret W. Cahalan, Robert L. Belle, Jr. and Frances Bergeron

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

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

Integrating Positive Youth Development into PREP Programming

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

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

Career Ladders and Pathways for the Hard-to-Employ

Alison Gash and Melissa Mack

School Meal Program Participation and Its Association with Dietary Patterns and Childhood Obesity

Philip Gleason, Ronette Briefel, Ander Wilson and Allison Hedley Dodd

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

Jelena Zurovac and Randy Brown

Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program

Leslie Foster, Barbara Phillips and Jennifer Schore

Implementing Large-Scale Studies of Children Using Clinical Assessments

Elizabeth T. Spier, Susan Sprachman and Cassandra Rowand

Midpoint Evaluation of Oregon's Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration: Mid-2012 through Mid-2014

Carol V. Irvin, JudyAnn Bigby, Vivian Byrd, Michael Barna, Suzie Witmer and Maureen Higgins

Consolidation of Providers Into Health Systems Increased Substantially, 2016–18

Michael F. Furukawa, Laura Kimmey, David J. Jones, Rachel M. Machta, Jing Guo and Eugene C. Rich

Building Strong Ready to Learn Outreach

Cheri Vogel, Kimberly Boller, Stacey Uhl and Lindsay Dobrzynski

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

Getting Ready for Kindergarten: Children's Progress During Head Start, FACES 2009 Report

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

Rural Hospital Transitional Care Program Reduces Medicare Spending

Keith Kranker, Linda M. Barterian, Rumin Sarwar, G. Greg Peterson, Boyd Gilman, Laura Blue, Kate Allison Stewart, Sheila D. Hoag, Timothy J. Day and Lorenzo Moreno

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

John Kregel and Lucy Miller

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

Impacts on Employment and Earnings

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

Integrating Medicare and Medicaid

James M. Verdier

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

Successfully Implementing SOAR: Lessons Learned from Six States

Jacqueline Kauff and Jonathan Brown

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 National Children's Study 2014: Commentary on a Recent National Research Council/Institute of Medicine Report

Marie C. McCormick, Dean B. Baker, Paul P. Biemer, Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Ana V. Diez Roux, Virginia M. Lesser, Sara S. McLanahan, George R. Saade, S. Lynne Stokes, Leonardo Trasande and Greg Duncan

Kauffman Firm Survey Fourth Follow-Up: Draft Questionnaire

David DesRoches

Competency-Based Education in College Settings

Ann Person

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

Purvi Sevak, Jody Schimmel Hyde and Matthew Kehn

Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries 2008 Annual Report

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

Summary of Published Evidence Related to the Dietary Guidelines for Children, 2004-2008

Allison Hedley Dodd, Charlotte Cabili, Ronette R. Briefel, Nyna Williams and Carol West Suitor

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

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

Stunting Prevalence and Correlates Among Children in Indonesia

Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen, William Leith and Clair Null

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

Marsha Gold

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

Mathematica Policy Research

Disease Management Options: Issues for State Medicaid Programs to Consider

Randall Brown and Arnold Chen

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

The Role of Obesity in Federal Disability Determinations

Jody Schimmel Hyde

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

Scott Cody, Irma Perez-Johnson and Kristen Joyce

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

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

Geographic Variation in Health IT and Health Care Outcomes: A Snapshot Before the Meaningful Use Incentive Program Began

Catherine G. McLaughlin and Eric Lammers

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

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

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

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

Assessing Cultural Perspectives on Healthcare Quality

Ann D. Bagchi, Raquel af Ursin and Alicia Leonard

How Do Work-Related Overpayments Affect the Earnings of Overpaid Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries?

Denise Hoffman, Priyanka Anand, John Jones and Serge Lukashanets

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

Influencing Mode Choice in a Multi-Mode Survey

Geraldine Mooney, Cheryl De Saw, Xiaojing Lin, Andrew Hurwitz and Flora Lan

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

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

Selecting the Best Comparison Group and Evaluation Design: A Guidance Document for State Section 1115 Demonstration Evaluations

James D. Reschovsky, Jessica Heeringa and Maggie Colby

Building Family Partnerships: Family Engagement Findings from the Head Start FACES Study

Nikki Aikens, Elizabeth Cavadel, Jacob Hartog, Felicia Hurwitz, Emily Knas, Owen Schochet, Lizabeth Malone and Louisa Tarullo

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

Research Motivations and Undergraduate Researchers’ Disciplinary Identity

Shannon N. Davis and Sarah E. Wagner

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

James Ohls, Larry Radbill and Allen Schirm

Math Corps Successfully Replicated

Barbara Harris and Lindsay Fox

Meeting the Challenges: A Data-Driven Approach to Building Behavioral Health System Capacity

Mathematica

Current and Former WFNJ Clients: How Are They Faring 30 Months Later?

Anu Rangarajan and Robert G. Wood

The Evaluation of the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program Design Report, Volume II: Data Collection Instruments

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Evaluation of the Burkina Faso Agriculture Development Project: Design Report

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

Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Improper Payments Data Collection Pilot Project

Rhoda Cohen, Lara Hulsey, Stacie Feldman, Claudia Gentile and John Hall

Tips for Enrolling and Retaining Evaluation Participants

Sarah Avellar, Kelley Borradaile and Debra Strong

Pathways to Careers Employer Case Study: Futura Industries

Noelle Denny-Brown and Marisa Shenk

Technical Appendices to Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 1999 to 2001

Karen E. Cunnyngham

Marriage Patterns of TANF Recipients: Evidence from Work First New Jersey

Robert G. Wood, Anu Rangarajan and John Deke

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

Barry Burciul and Matt Sloan

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

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

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

Emily Kazyak and Mathew Stange

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

Evaluation of Oakland Unite: Year 1 Strategy Report

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

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.

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

Evaluation of Effectiveness of AHRQ's Grant-Supported Research on Healthcare Costs, Productivity, Organization, and Market Forces

Marsha Gold, Timothy Lake, Kate Stewart, Tara Krissik and Kirsten Barrett

Creating Capacity for Improvement in Primary Care: The Case for Developing a Quality Improvement Infrastructure

Erin Fries Taylor, Deborah Peikes, Janice Genevro and David Meyers

The Effectiveness of the Postemployment Services Demonstration: Preliminary Findings

Anu Rangarajan, Alicia Meckstroth and Tim Novak

Using Administrative Data to Address Federal Contractor Violations of Equal Employment Opportunity Laws

Nan Maxwell, Aravind Moorthy, Caroline Massad Francis and Dylan Ellis

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

Melissa Azur and Heather Zaveri

Medicare Advantage 2004 Payment Increases Resulting from the Medicare Modernization Act

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

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

Jonathan D. Brown and Lawrence S. Wissow

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

Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students' Academic Behaviors and Mindsets

David Blazar and Matthew Kraft

WIC Eligibles and Coverage 1994-2007: Estimates of the Population of Women, Infants, and Children Eligible for WIC Benefits

Ed Harper, Jay Hirschman, James Mabli, Sandi Nelson and Kerianne Hourihan

Accountable Care Organizations: Will They Deliver?

Marsha Gold

Third Report to Congress on the Evaluation of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

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

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

Opportunities for Improving Chronic Care Management to Address Demands for Accessible Accountable Care During and After the Pandemic

Ann O'Malley and Eugene Rich

Forging Successful Partnerships Between Health Plans and States

James M. Verdier

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

Dexter Chu and John Burghardt

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

QRS Profile: Colorado Qualistar

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout