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

Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg

Design with Care: School Information Displays Can Impact School Choices

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Steven Glazerman and Jon Valant

Competency-Based Education in College Settings

Ann Person

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marsha Gold

Linking TANF Recipients with Paraprofessional Long-Term Care Jobs

Jacqueline Kauff, Gretchen Kirby and LaDonna Pavetti

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

The Role of Obesity in Federal Disability Determinations

Jody Schimmel Hyde

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

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

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

Posttransition Experiences of Former Child SSI Recipients

Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg

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

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

Scott Cody, Irma Perez-Johnson and Kristen Joyce

Medicare Advantage 2012 Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums

Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman

Challenges and Successes of Pregnancy Assistance Fund Programs Supporting Young Fathers

Katherine Niland and Rebekah Selekman

SURVEY SAYS: School Climate Data Can Drive School Improvement

Mid-Atlantic Rel

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

Ann Bagchi and Beth Stevens

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

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Arnold Chen and Jennifer Schore

Kauffman Firm Survey Fourth Follow-Up: Draft Questionnaire

David DesRoches

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

Sarah Jones, Monica Martinez and Cindy Cai

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

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

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

Mathematica

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

Melissa Azur and Heather Zaveri

PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Toolkit

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

Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability

David C. Stapleton and Frank Martin

Expanding Employer Engagement and Job Placement

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

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

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

Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students' Academic Behaviors and Mindsets

David Blazar and Matthew Kraft

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

Quarterly Youth Unemployment Rates in Large Metro Areas, 2021

Hande Inanc and Megan Caruso

Consumer Enrollment and Experiences in the Cash and Counseling Program

Jennifer Schore, Leslie Foster and Barbara Phillips

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

Danielle Chelminsky

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

Nick Beyler, Bruno Vizcarra, Don Jang and Amang Sukasih

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

Background of the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study

John Burghardt and Barbara L. Devaney

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

Missing Eligibility Group Codes in 2017 (Brief)

Su Liu, Risa Nakajima, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

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

Margo Rosenbach and Kimball Lewis

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

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

The Effectiveness of the Postemployment Services Demonstration: Preliminary Findings

Anu Rangarajan, Alicia Meckstroth and Tim Novak

Integrating Positive Youth Development into PREP Programming

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

24 Million and Counting: Reflections on 40 Years of Head Start Research in Support of Children and Families'

John M. Love

The Underappreciated Success of Home-Based Primary Care: Next Steps for CMS' Independence at Home

Laura Kimmey and Valerie Cheh

Longitudinal Statistics for New Supplemental Security Income Beneficiaries

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

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

Gina A. Livermore and Maura Bardos

Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program

Leslie Foster, Barbara Phillips and Jennifer Schore

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

Steven Glazerman and Allison Seifullah

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

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

Forging Successful Partnerships Between Health Plans and States

James M. Verdier

Forging Partnerships (In the Spotlight)

Emily Knas and M. C. Bradley

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

Job Skills and Minority Youth: New Program Directions (Book Review)

Matthew T. Johnson

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

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

Deborah J. Chollet

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

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

Stephen Lipscomb, Hanley Chiang and Brian Gill

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

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

Mathematica Policy Research

Minnesota’s SGA Project Demonstration: An Interim Evaluation Report

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

Health Insurance Exchange Study

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

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

Feeding Infants and Children from Birth to 24 Months: Summarizing Existing Guidance

Nasem and Ronette Briefel

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

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

Creation of the 2011 MATH SIPP+ Microsimulation Model and Database

Joshua Leftin, Joel Smith, Karen Cunnyngham and Carole Trippe

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

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

Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending: Findings Report

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

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

Mathematica

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

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

CHIP Improves Children's Access to Care, Eases Financial Burden on Families (In Focus Brief)

Mathematica Policy Research

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

Roderick J. Little and Sonya Vartivarian

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

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

Nancy Cole and Cassandra Baxter

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 a Medicaid Psychotropic Drug Management Program in Utah

Dominick Esposito and James M. Verdier

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

Sources of Nutrients in Students Diets

Anne Gordon and Patricia M. McKinney

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

Kara Contreary, Jennifer Tennant and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification

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

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

Arif A. Mamun

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

Jim Verdier

Income Supports and Work Requirement Policies: An Equity-Focused Policy Research Agenda

Brittany English and Diane Paulsell

State Partnership Initiative: Characteristics of Participants Enrolled Through March 2003

Deborah Peikes and Nora Paxton

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

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

John Kregel and Lucy Miller

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

Testing Municipal Wastewater to Flexibly Monitor Health and Safety

Aparna Keshaviah, Cindy Hu and Marisa Henry

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

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

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

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

Thomas Fraker

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

Stunting Prevalence and Correlates Among Children in Indonesia

Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen, William Leith and Clair Null

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

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

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

Mary Kay Fox