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

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

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

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

Ann O'Malley and Eugene Rich

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

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

Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 6 Impacts

Matthew Johnson and Alicia Demers

The Changing Medical and Long-Term Care Expenditures of People Who Transition from Institutional Care to Home- and Community-Based Services

Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Dean Miller, Wilfredo Lim and Carol V. Irvin

Integrating Positive Youth Development into PREP Programming

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

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

Kara Contreary, Jennifer Tennant and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

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

Laura Castner and Jacquelyn Anderson

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

Philip Gleason, John Burghardt, Paul Strasberg and Lara Hulsey

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

Emily Kazyak and Mathew Stange

Preparing for Life After High School: The Characteristics and Experiences of Youth in Special Education. Findings from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012. Volume 1: Comparisons with Other Youth (Executive Summary)

Stephen Lipscomb, Joshua Haimson, Albert Y. Liu, John Burghardt, David R. Johnson and Martha Thurlow

An Evaluation of the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) in Chicago: Year Two Impact Report

Steven Glazerman and Allison Seifullah

Evaluation of the Burkina Faso Agriculture Development Project: Design Report

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

Charge of the Right Brigade? Communities, Coverage, and Care for the Uninsured

Lawrence D. Brown and Beth Stevens

Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability

David C. Stapleton and Frank Martin

Assessing Cultural Perspectives on Healthcare Quality

Ann D. Bagchi, Raquel af Ursin and Alicia Leonard

Background of the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study

John Burghardt and Barbara L. Devaney

How Accountable Care Organizations Use Population Segmentation to Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients

Ann S. O’Malley, Eugene C. Rich, Rumin Sarwar, Eli Schultz, W. Cannon Warren, Tanya Shah and Melinda K. Abrams

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

Mary Kay Fox

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

Debra J. Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Eugene Rich

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

Gina A. Livermore and Maura Bardos

Building Coalitions to Support Maternal Health Quality of Care in India

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Emma Pottinger

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

Dexter Chu and John Burghardt

Assessment of the Quality of State SNAP Administrative Data

Karen Cunnyngham

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

Denise Hoffman, Priyanka Anand, John Jones and Serge Lukashanets

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

Career Ladders and Pathways for the Hard-to-Employ

Alison Gash and Melissa Mack

Understanding College Match Among KIPP Northern California Students

Naihobe Gonzalez and Dan Thal

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

Mathematica Policy Research

Counting Working-Age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement

Kalamazoo, W.E. Upjohn Institute Mi:, Andrew J. Houtenville, David C. Stapleton, Robert R. Weathers, Richard Burkhauser and Editors

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

Robert G. Wood, Anu Rangarajan and John Deke

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

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

Research Motivations and Undergraduate Researchers’ Disciplinary Identity

Shannon N. Davis and Sarah E. Wagner

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

Scott Cody, Irma Perez-Johnson and Kristen Joyce

Forging Partnerships (In the Spotlight)

Emily Knas and M. C. Bradley

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

Deborah Chollet and Lee Reynis

Head Start Children’s Developmental Progress and Kindergarten Experiences

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

Senegal’s Irrigation and Water Resources Management Project at Five Years Post-Compact: Findings from a Mixed-Methods Evaluation

Anthony Harris, Sarah Leser, Ahmadou Kandji and Sarah Hughes

The Impact of Quality-Reporting Programs on Hospital Operations

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

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

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

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

School Choice in New York City After Two Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program (Interim Report)

David Myers, Paul E. Peterson, Daniel P. Mayer, Julia Y. Chou and William G. Howell

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

Consumer Enrollment and Experiences in the Cash and Counseling Program

Jennifer Schore, Leslie Foster and Barbara Phillips

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

Roderick J. Little and Sonya Vartivarian

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

Jelena Zurovac and Randy Brown

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

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

Missing Eligibility Group Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Su Liu, Risa Nakajima, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

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

Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg

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

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

Characteristics of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Provider Network: Implications for Access to Care Under the Affordable Care Act

Ellen Bouchery, Boyd Gilman, Sylvia Trent-Adams and Laura Cheever

An Effectiveness Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Registered Apprenticeship in 10 States

Debbie Reed, Albert Yung-Hsu Liu, Rebecca Kleinman, Annalisa Mastri, Davin Reed, Samina Sattar and Jessica Ziegler

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

Thomas Fraker

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

Capacity Building for Strategic Learning: Findings from the Pilot Cohort

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

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

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

Diane Schaak, Kate Tarrant, Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

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

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

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

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Strength in Numbers: Strategic Partnerships Helped Provide Better LMI

Diane Herz and Brittany English

State Partnership Initiative: Characteristics of Participants Enrolled Through March 2003

Deborah Peikes and Nora Paxton

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

Jim Verdier

Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students' Academic Behaviors and Mindsets

David Blazar and Matthew Kraft

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

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

Marsha Gold, Jessica Mittler and Beth Stevens

Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Systems and Eligibility Expansions

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

Value-Added Models for the Pittsburgh Public Schools

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

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

John Deke and Joshua Haimson

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

Eric Grau

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

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

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

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

Characteristics and Dietary Patterns of Healthy and Less-Healthy Eaters in the Low-Income Population

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Mary Kay Fox and P.K. Newby

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

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

Margo Rosenbach and Kimball Lewis

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

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

John Kregel and Lucy Miller

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

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

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

James Mabli and Irina Cheban

Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2016 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel

Alma Vigil, Sarah Lauffer, Kelsey Farson Gray, Chrystine Tadler and Brad Miller

Posttransition Experiences of Former Child SSI Recipients

Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg

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

Marsha Gold

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

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

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

Tailored Teaching: The Need for Stronger Evidence About Early Childhood Teachers' Use of Ongoing Assessment to Individualize Instruction

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

Successfully Implementing SOAR: Lessons Learned from Six States

Jacqueline Kauff and Jonathan Brown

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

Allen L. Schirm

Longitudinal Statistics for New Supplemental Security Income Beneficiaries

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

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

Sarah Jones, Monica Martinez and Cindy Cai

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

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

Melissa Azur and Heather Zaveri

Customized Employment: Translating Policy Into Practice Through SourceAmerica Pathways to Careers

Purvi Sevak, Noelle Denny-Brown and Marisa Shenk

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

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

Quality Rating Systems in Medicaid Managed Care

Patricia Rowan, Ruth Hsu, Télyse Masaoay and Stephanie Parver

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

Audra Wenzlow, Ellen Bouchery and John Czajka

Tips for Enrolling and Retaining Evaluation Participants

Sarah Avellar, Kelley Borradaile and Debra Strong

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

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