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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

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

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

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

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

Impacts on Employment and Earnings

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

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

The Youth Transition Demonstration: Interim Findings and Lessons for Program Implementation

Thomas Fraker

Phased Development of a Modern Gateway for Disability Benefits

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

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

Gina A. Livermore and Maura Bardos

Evaluation of the Burkina Faso Agriculture Development Project: Design Report

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

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

Karen E. Cunnyngham

Integrating Positive Youth Development into PREP Programming

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

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

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

Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending: Findings Report

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

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

Jelena Zurovac and Randy Brown

Value-Added Estimates for Phase 1 of the Pennsylvania Teacher and Principal Evaluation Pilot

Stephen Lipscomb, Hanley Chiang and Brian Gill

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

José Tapia Granados and Javier M. Rodriguez

Impacts of the 2010 VA PTSD Rule Change on Participation in SSA Disability Programs

Kara Contreary, Jennifer Tennant and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

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

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

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

The Role of Obesity in Federal Disability Determinations

Jody Schimmel Hyde

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

Considerations for and Lessons Learned from Online, Synchronous Focus Groups

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

Forging Successful Partnerships Between Health Plans and States

James M. Verdier

Employment Services and Supports Available to Veterans with Disabilities Through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Other Federal Agencies

Michael West and John Kregel

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

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

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

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

Forming a Team to Ensure High-Quality Measurement in Education Studies

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Kimberly Boller

QRS Profile: Colorado Qualistar

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Sources of Nutrients in Students Diets

Anne Gordon and Patricia M. McKinney

Expanding Employer Engagement and Job Placement

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

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

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

Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Services Demonstration Evaluation: Volume 2, Technical Appendices

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

The Effectiveness of the Postemployment Services Demonstration: Preliminary Findings

Anu Rangarajan, Alicia Meckstroth and Tim Novak

Stunting Prevalence and Correlates Among Children in Indonesia

Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen, William Leith and Clair Null

SURVEY SAYS: School Climate Data Can Drive School Improvement

Mid-Atlantic Rel

Using the SAS Output Delivery System Report Writing Interface to Produce Codebooks for Survey Data

Nancy Cole and Cassandra Baxter

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

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

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

Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and Treatment Effects? Reassessing Bias in Nonexperimental Estimators

Kenneth Fortson, Philip Gleason, Emma Kopa and Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz

Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program

Leslie Foster, Barbara Phillips and Jennifer Schore

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

Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg

Health Insurance Exchange Study

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

Integrating Medicare and Medicaid

James M. Verdier

Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Systems and Eligibility Expansions

Leighton Ku, Marilyn Ellwood, Sheila Hoag, Barbara Ormond and Judith Wooldridge

Minimizing Youth Involvement with the Courts: A Profile of Face Forward Grantees' Diversion Services

Ivette Gutierrez, Sukey Leshnick and Jillian Stein

Competency-Based Education in College Settings

Ann Person

Accountable Care Organizations: Will They Deliver?

Marsha Gold

Missing Eligibility Group Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Su Liu, Risa Nakajima, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

Medicare Advantage 2004 Payment Increases Resulting from the Medicare Modernization Act

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

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

Su Liu and Sarah Croake

Understanding College Match Among KIPP Northern California Students

Naihobe Gonzalez and Dan Thal

Transforming Teachers' Practice: The Impact of EL Education's English Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Learning on Teacher Practices

Jane Choi, Scott Richman and Sarah Dolfin

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

Anu Rangarajan and Robert G. Wood

State Partnership Initiative: Characteristics of Participants Enrolled Through March 2003

Deborah Peikes and Nora Paxton

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

Assessment of the Quality of State SNAP Administrative Data

Karen Cunnyngham

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

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participants' Employment Characteristics and Barriers to Work

James Mabli and Irina Cheban

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

James Ohls, Larry Radbill and Allen Schirm

Indicators of Child Family and Community Connections

Various Authors

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

John Kregel and Lucy Miller

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

Sarah Jones, Monica Martinez and Cindy Cai

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Michelle Derr

Testing Municipal Wastewater to Flexibly Monitor Health and Safety

Aparna Keshaviah, Cindy Hu and Marisa Henry

Longitudinal Statistics for New Supplemental Security Income Beneficiaries

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

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

Mathematica

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

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

Laura Castner and Jacquelyn Anderson

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

Marsha Gold and Maria Cupples Hudson

Valuing Student Competencies: Which Ones Predict Postsecondary Educational Attainment and Earnings, and for Whom?

John Deke and Joshua Haimson

PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Toolkit

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

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

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

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

Emily Kazyak and Mathew Stange

Strength in Numbers: Strategic Partnerships Helped Provide Better LMI

Diane Herz and Brittany English

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

Influencing Mode Choice in a Multi-Mode Survey

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

Challenges and Successes of Pregnancy Assistance Fund Programs Supporting Young Fathers

Katherine Niland and Rebekah Selekman

Kauffman Firm Survey Fourth Follow-Up: Draft Questionnaire

David DesRoches

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

Philip M. Gleason

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

Erin R. Lipman, John Deke and Mariel Finucane

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

Purvi Sevak, Jody Schimmel Hyde and Matthew Kehn

Changes in the Availability of Community-Based Mental Health Care for Various Population Groups from 2014 to 2020

Brigitte Manteuffel, Luke Horner, Natalie Hazelwood and Ruchir Karmali

Tips for Enrolling and Retaining Evaluation Participants

Sarah Avellar, Kelley Borradaile and Debra Strong

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

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

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

Deborah J. Chollet

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

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

Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students' Academic Behaviors and Mindsets

David Blazar and Matthew Kraft

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

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