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Participation in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program

Philip M. Gleason

The Economic Consequences of the Dissolution of Cohabiting Unions

Sarah Avellar and Pamela J. Smock

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

Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability

David C. Stapleton and Frank Martin

Usual Food Intakes of 2- and 3-Year Old U.S. Children Are Not Consistent with Dietary Guidelines

Mary Kay Fox, Elizabeth Gearan, Judith Cannon, Ronette Briefel, Denise M. Deming, Alison L. Eldridge and Kathleen C. Reidy

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

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

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

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

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

A Focused Look at Rural Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants

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

Value-Added Models for the Pittsburgh Public Schools

Matthew Johnson, Stephen Lipscomb, Brian Gill, Kevin Booker and Julie Bruch

Stunting Prevalence and Correlates Among Children in Indonesia

Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen, William Leith and Clair Null

Effects of Four Responsible Fatherhood Programs for Low-Income Fathers: Evidence from the Parents and Children Together Evaluation

Sarah Avellar, Reginald Covington, Quinn Moore, Ankita Patnaik and April Wu

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

Erin R. Lipman, John Deke and Mariel Finucane

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold, Jessica Mittler and Beth Stevens

Competency-Based Education in College Settings

Ann Person

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

Margo Rosenbach and Kimball Lewis

Imputation of Multiple-Response Items in SESTAT and Its Component Surveys

Nick Beyler, Bruno Vizcarra, Don Jang and Amang Sukasih

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

Philip Gleason, John Burghardt, Paul Strasberg and Lara Hulsey

Challenges and Successes of Pregnancy Assistance Fund Programs Supporting Young Fathers

Katherine Niland and Rebekah Selekman

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

Mary Kay Fox

Getting the Most Out of State QRIS Data: Secondary Analyses of Quality Ratings from the QRIS Assessment Project

Lizabeth Malone, Gretchen Kirby and Pia Caronongan

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

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

Cara Orfield, Lauren Hula and Michael Barna

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

Gina A. Livermore and Maura Bardos

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

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

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

Design with Care: School Information Displays Can Impact School Choices

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Steven Glazerman and Jon Valant

Medicare Advantage 2012 Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

Capacity Building for Strategic Learning: Findings from the Pilot Cohort

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

Disease Management Options: Issues for State Medicaid Programs to Consider

Randall Brown and Arnold Chen

The Impact of Quality-Reporting Programs on Hospital Operations

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

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

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

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

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

Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries 2008 Annual Report

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

Medicare Advantage 2004 Payment Increases Resulting from the Medicare Modernization Act

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

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

Roderick J. Little and Sonya Vartivarian

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

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

SURVEY SAYS: School Climate Data Can Drive School Improvement

Mid-Atlantic Rel

Creation of the 2011 MATH SIPP+ Microsimulation Model and Database

Joshua Leftin, Joel Smith, Karen Cunnyngham and Carole Trippe

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

Building Coalitions to Support Maternal Health Quality of Care in India

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Emma Pottinger

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

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

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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

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

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

Robert G. Wood, Anu Rangarajan and John Deke

Student Participation in the School Nutrition Programs: An Econometric and Simulation Model

Philip M. Gleason

Integrating Positive Youth Development into PREP Programming

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

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

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UnityPoint ACO's Home Visit Program (Case Study)

Natalie Graves and Sonya Streeter

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

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

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

Phased Development of a Modern Gateway for Disability Benefits

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

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

Mathematica

Tips for Supporting Elementary Writing Skills at Home

Christine Ross

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

Head Start Children’s Developmental Progress and Kindergarten Experiences

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

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

Expanding Access to Medicaid Data for Research: Feasibility of a MAX Sample

Audra Wenzlow, Ellen Bouchery and John Czajka

Measuring Employment of People with Disabilities

David Wittenburg

Implementing Large-Scale Studies of Children Using Clinical Assessments

Elizabeth T. Spier, Susan Sprachman and Cassandra Rowand

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

Anu Rangarajan and Robert G. Wood

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

Emily Kazyak and Mathew Stange

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

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

Health Insurance Exchange Study

Deborah Chollet, Su Liu, Kate Stewart, Alison Wellington, Allison Barrett, Mila Kofman and Amy M. Lischko

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

Jim Verdier

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

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

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

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

Impacts on Employment and Earnings

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

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

Mathematica

To Apply or Not to Apply: The Employment and Program Participation of Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants and Non-Applicants

Allison Thompkins, Todd Honeycutt, Claire Gill, Joseph Mastrianni and Michelle Bailey

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

Debra J. Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Eugene Rich

Developing a Health Care Information Portal for California Childrens Service's Providers: Functions, Models, and Issues

Deborah J. Chollet

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

Jelena Zurovac and Randy Brown

Health, Economic Crisis, and Austerity: A Comparison of Greece, Finland, and Iceland

José Tapia Granados and Javier M. Rodriguez

The White Picket Fence Dream: Effects of Assets on the Choice of Family Union

Arif A. Mamun

Forging Successful Partnerships Between Health Plans and States

James M. Verdier

Posttransition Experiences of Former Child SSI Recipients

Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg

Outcomes of Competency-Based Education in Community Colleges: Summative Findings from the Evaluation of a TAACCCT Grant

Ann E. Person, Jaime Thomas, Julie Bruch, Alexander Johann and Nikhail Maestas

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

Melissa Azur and Heather Zaveri

Do In-Person Interviews Reduce Bias in a Mixed-Mode Survey of Persons with Disabilities?

Eric Grau

Reaching Those in Need: How Effective Is the Food Stamp Program?

Allen L. Schirm

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

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

Assessment of the Quality of State SNAP Administrative Data

Karen Cunnyngham

Forging Partnerships (In the Spotlight)

Emily Knas and M. C. Bradley

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

Hand in Hand: Enhancing the Synergy between Money Follows the Person and Managed Long-Term Services and Supports

Jenna Libersky, Debra Lipson and Kristie Liao

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

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

Research Motivations and Undergraduate Researchers’ Disciplinary Identity

Shannon N. Davis and Sarah E. Wagner

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Panel Regarding the Use of Incentive Payments and the Evaluation Design (Appendices)

Thomas Fraker and Todd Honeycutt

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

A Method for Measuring the Effect of Certified Electronic Health Record Technology on Childhood Immunization Status Scores Among Medicaid Managed Care Network Providers

Paul Messino, Hadi Kharrazi, Julia M. Kim and Harold Lehmann

Testing Municipal Wastewater to Flexibly Monitor Health and Safety

Aparna Keshaviah, Cindy Hu and Marisa Henry

PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Toolkit

Dominick Esposito, Jessica Heeringa, Katharine Bradley, Sarah Croake, Laura Kimmey and Amanda Lechner

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

Dexter Chu and John Burghardt

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

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

Karen E. Cunnyngham

Influencing Mode Choice in a Multi-Mode Survey

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