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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

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

James M. Verdier

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

Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg

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

Diane Schaak, Kate Tarrant, Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Linking TANF Recipients with Paraprofessional Long-Term Care Jobs

Jacqueline Kauff, Gretchen Kirby and LaDonna Pavetti

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

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

John Kregel and Lucy Miller

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

Elizabeth Woodburn Cavadel and Douglas A. Frye

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

Sheila D. Hoag

Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program

Leslie Foster, Barbara Phillips and Jennifer Schore

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

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

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

Evaluation of the Burkina Faso Agriculture Development Project: Design Report

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

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

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

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Designing a National Evaluation of an Ongoing Program: Lessons from the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation

Sheena McConnell

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

Local Health Departments Lead Efforts Against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

Megan McHugh, Rose Marie Martinez, Rebecca Kliman and Sara Roschwalb

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

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

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

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

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

Integrating Medicare and Medicaid

James M. Verdier

The Impact of Quality-Reporting Programs on Hospital Operations

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

Successfully Implementing SOAR: Lessons Learned from Six States

Jacqueline Kauff and Jonathan Brown

Math Corps Successfully Replicated

Barbara Harris and Lindsay Fox

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

Ann O'Malley and Eugene Rich

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.

Accountable Care Organizations: Will They Deliver?

Marsha Gold

Sources of Nutrients in Students Diets

Anne Gordon and Patricia M. McKinney

Improving Sanitation at Scale: Lessons from TSSM Implementation in East Java, Indonesia

Samia Amin, Anu Rangarajan and Evan Borkum

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

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

Medicare Advantage 2004 Payment Increases Resulting from the Medicare Modernization Act

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

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

Philip M. Gleason

Assessing the Impact of Medically Tailored Meals and Medical Nutrition Therapy on Type 2 Diabetes: Protocol for Project MiNT

Kristin L. Rising, Mackenzie Kemp, Patricia Davidson, Judd E. Hollander, Serge Jabbour, Eric Jutkowitz, Benjamin E. Leiby, Cheryl Marco, Ian McElwee, Geoffrey Mills, Laura Pizzi, Rhea E. Powell and Anna Marie Chang

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

Robert G. Wood, Anu Rangarajan and John Deke

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

Jelena Zurovac and Randy Brown

Small Area Estimation: New Developments and Directions for HHS Data

John L. Czajka, Amang Sukasih and Alyssa Maccarone

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

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

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

Deborah Chollet and Lee Reynis

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

Expanding Employer Engagement and Job Placement

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

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

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

Karen E. Cunnyngham

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

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

José Tapia Granados and Javier M. Rodriguez

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

Research Motivations and Undergraduate Researchers’ Disciplinary Identity

Shannon N. Davis and Sarah E. Wagner

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

Margo Rosenbach and Kimball Lewis

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

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Kimberly Boller

Background of the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study

John Burghardt and Barbara L. Devaney

Consumer Enrollment and Experiences in the Cash and Counseling Program

Jennifer Schore, Leslie Foster and Barbara Phillips

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

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

Arif A. Mamun

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

Mary Kay Fox

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

Mario Gruszczynski, Natalie Graves and Sonya Streeter

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

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

Roderick J. Little and Sonya Vartivarian

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

Quality Rating Systems in Medicaid Managed Care

Patricia Rowan, Ruth Hsu, Télyse Masaoay and Stephanie Parver

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

Scott Cody, Irma Perez-Johnson and Kristen Joyce

Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending: Findings Report

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

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

Debra J. Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Eugene Rich

An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification

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

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

Steven Glazerman and Allison Seifullah

Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Systems and Eligibility Expansions

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

How States Can Better Understand their Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: A Guide to Using CMS Data Resources

Danielle Chelminsky

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

Marsha Gold and Maria Cupples Hudson

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

Minnesota’s SGA Project Demonstration: An Interim Evaluation Report

Matthew Kehn, Liz Babalola, Todd Honeycutt, Gina Livermore, Annie Doubleday, David Stapleton and Purvi Sevak

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

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

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Michelle Derr

Evaluation of Oakland Unite: Year 1 Strategy Report

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

Head Start Children’s Developmental Progress and Kindergarten Experiences

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

Stunting Prevalence and Correlates Among Children in Indonesia

Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen, William Leith and Clair Null

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

Catherine G. McLaughlin and Eric Lammers

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

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

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

Disease Management Options: Issues for State Medicaid Programs to Consider

Randall Brown and Arnold Chen

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

Denise Hoffman, Priyanka Anand, John Jones and Serge Lukashanets

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

Evaluation of a Medicaid Psychotropic Drug Management Program in Utah

Dominick Esposito and James M. Verdier

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 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

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

James Mabli and Irina Cheban

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

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

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

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

UnityPoint ACO's Home Visit Program (Case Study)

Natalie Graves and Sonya Streeter

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

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

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

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

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

Ann Bagchi and Beth Stevens

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

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

Kauffman Firm Survey Fourth Follow-Up: Draft Questionnaire

David DesRoches

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 Effectiveness of the Postemployment Services Demonstration: Preliminary Findings

Anu Rangarajan, Alicia Meckstroth and Tim Novak

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

Mathematica Policy Research

Missing Eligibility Group Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Su Liu, Risa Nakajima, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability

David C. Stapleton and Frank Martin

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

Ivette Gutierrez, Sukey Leshnick and Jillian Stein