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

Subuhi Asheer and Ellen Kisker

Impacts of the National Health Service Corps: A Survival Analysis

Thomas R. Konrad, Kirsten Leysieffer, Rose Marie Martinez, Richard Niska and Barbara L. Wells

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

Ann Bagchi and Beth Stevens

Considerations for and Lessons Learned from Online, Synchronous Focus Groups

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

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

Catherine G. McLaughlin and Eric Lammers

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

Using the MyPyramid Equivalents Database to Estimate MyPyramid Equivalents for the Third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study

Elizabeth Condon and Mary Kay Fox

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

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

A Focused Look at Rural Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants

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

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

John Kregel and Lucy Miller

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

Value-Added Models for the Pittsburgh Public Schools

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

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

Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program

Leslie Foster, Barbara Phillips and Jennifer Schore

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

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

Linking TANF Recipients with Paraprofessional Long-Term Care Jobs

Jacqueline Kauff, Gretchen Kirby and LaDonna Pavetti

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

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Kimberly Boller

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

Challenges and Successes of Pregnancy Assistance Fund Programs Supporting Young Fathers

Katherine Niland and Rebekah Selekman

Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending: Findings Report

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

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

Purvi Sevak, Noelle Denny-Brown and Marisa Shenk

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

James M. Verdier

State Partnership Initiative: Characteristics of Participants Enrolled Through March 2003

Deborah Peikes and Nora Paxton

Kauffman Firm Survey Fourth Follow-Up: Draft Questionnaire

David DesRoches

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

Pretest Measures of the Study Outcome and the Elimination of Selection Bias: Evidence from Three Within Study Comparisons

Kelly Hallberg, Thomas D. Cook, Peter M. Steiner and M. H. Clark

Case-Mix Analysis Using Demonstration Data: Home Health Prospective Payment Demonstration

Barbara R. Phillips, Randall S. Brown, Jennifer L. Schore, Amy C. Klein, Peter Z. Schochet, Jerrold W. Hill and Dexter O. Chu

Are Low-Performing Schools Adopting Practices Promoted by School Improvement Grants? (In Focus Brief)

Mariesa Herrmann, Lisa Dragoset and Susanne James-Burdumy

Governing the Public Workforce System: The Structure and Priorities of Local Workforce Investment Boards

Kristin Wolff

The Early Experience of the Lovelace Case Management Program

Sherry Aliotta and Jennifer Schore

Quantifying the Health Insurance Needs of Employed and Potentially Employed Persons with Disabilities

Jack Gettens, Alexis Henry and Pei-Pei Lei

Medicaid Enrollment Gaps, 2005-2007

John L. Czajka

Findings from the Gary Income Maintenance Experiment: Testimony Before the House Committee on Ways and Means

Kenneth Kehrer

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Missouri's MC for Kids Program

Mary Harrington

Building a Future: Interim Impact Findings from the YouthBuild Evaluation (Executive Summary)

Cynthia Miller, Megan Millenky, Lisa Schwartz, Lisbeth Goble and Jillian Stein

An Evaluation of the Chicago Teacher Advancement Program (Chicago TAP) After Four Years

Steven Glazerman and Allison Seifullah

Age Group Differences in Progress toward Reducing Substance Use Disorders, 2015-2018

Ellen Bouchery

What Do Quality Rating Levels Mean? Examining the Implementation of QRIS Ratings to Inform Validation

Gretchen Kirby, Pia Caronongan, Lizabeth M. Malone and Kimberly Boller

The Changing Face of Community-Based Mental Health Care: Changes in the Types of Community-Based Mental Health Services Available from 2014 to 2020

Crystal Blyler and Luke Horner

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Proposal to Develop Enhancements to the Benefit Offset Simulation Model (BOSIM)

David C. Stapleton, Joel Smith, Denise Whalen and Laura Kosar

Evaluation of UNICEF's Early Childhood Development Programme with Focus on Government of Netherlands Funding (2008-2010): Ghana Country Case Study Report

Kimberly Boller, Kathy Buek, Andrew Burwick, Minki Chatterji, Diane Paulsell, Samia Amin, Evan Borkum, Larissa Campuzano and Jessica Jacobson

The Effectiveness of Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing

Susanne James-Burdumy, Brian Goesling, John Deke and Eric Einspruch

Efficiency of Model-Assisted Regression Estimators in Sample Surveys

Jun Shao and Sheng Wang

Evaluation of the Teach For America Program (Presentation)

Paul T. Decker, Daniel P. Mayer and Steven Glazerman

The Application and Importance of Disability Policy Research to the Mental Health Field

Crystal R. Blyler

Learning to Adapt: Helping Agape Child & Family Services Use Rapid-Cycle Learning to Drive Equitable Change

Tosin Shenbanjo, Delara Aharpour, Annie Buonaspina, Brittany Tabora and Scott Baumgartner

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) 9-Month Twin Triad Restricted-Use Data File

Nikki Aikens, Nana Kwakye, Amy Rathbun, Jennifer Park and Jodi Jacobson Chernoff

Collecting, Using, and Reporting Medicaid Encounter Data: A Primer for States

Vivian L. H. Byrd and James Verdier

Correlates of Unintended Birth Among Low-Income Hispanic Immigrants at High Risk for Depression

Anna L. Christensen, Deborah F. Perry, Huynh-Nhu Le and Saifuddin Ahmed

Oral Health Promotion, Prevention, and Treatment Strategies for Head Start Families: Early Findings from the Oral Health Initiative Evaluation Volume II Site Profiles

Patricia Del Grosso, Amy Brown, Heather Zaveri, Sandra Silva, Beth Zimmerman, Anne Hopewell and Diane Paulsell

Descriptive Data on Region XI Head Start Children and Families: AI/AN FACES Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Data Tables and Study Design

Sara Bernstein, Lizabeth Malone, Ashley Kopack Klein, Charles Bush, Kathleen Feeney, Maya Reid, Serge Lukashanets and Nikki Aikens

Disease Management: A Leap of Faith to Lower-Cost, Higher-Quality Health Care?

Ashley Short, Glen Mays and Jessica Mittler

KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Executive Summary)

Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Alexandra Resch

Informal Child Care in California: Current Arrangements and Future Needs

Various Authors

Food Stamp Program Operations Study: Synthesis Report

Ruy A. Teixeira and William L. Hamilton

Design for the Evaluation of Early Elementary School Mathematics Curricula

Roberto Agodini, John Deke, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Barbara Harris and Robert Murphy

Spring 2013 School Administrator Survey

David DesRoches and Kelley Borradaile

The Effectiveness and Effects of Alcohol Regulation: Evidence from India

Dara Lee Luca, Emily Owens and Gunjan Sharma

Choosing the Right Formula: Initial Report

Panel on Formula Allociations of which Allen L. Schirm is a Member

State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Children with Mental Illness

Henry Ireys, Lori Achman and Ama Takyi

Two Studies of Father Involvement in Early Head Start Programs: A National Survey and a Demonstration Program Evaluation

Helen H. Raikes and Jeanne Bellotti

Head Start Family and Classroom Supports for Kindergarten Achievement: FACES 2009

Lizabeth Malone, Ashley Kopack Klein, Nikki Aikens, Jessica F. Harding, Jerry West and Louisa Tarullo

Evaluation of the Recent Experience of the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Program: Beneficiaries Served, Services Provided, and Program Costs

Jody Schimmel, Allison Roche and Gina Livermore

Indonesia Got Schooled: 15 Years of Rising Enrolment and Flat Learning Profiles

Amanda Beatty, Emilie Berkhout, Luhur Bima, Thomas Coen, Menno Pradhan and Daniel Suryadarma

New Data Available from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) (In Focus Brief)

David K. Baugh and Carol V. Irvin

Speaking on Data’s Behalf: What Researchers Say and How Audiences Choose

Jesse J. Chandler, Ignacio Martinez, Mariel M. Finucane, Jeffrey G. Terziev and Alexandra M. Resch

Insights from Federal Evaluation Technical Assistance Liaisons on the Partnerships Supporting Local Evaluations

Lindsay Cattell and Cay Bradley

Developing and Evaluating Methods for Using American Community Survey Data to Support the School Meals Program: Interim Report

Allen Schirm Nancy Kirkendall and Editors

What the Data Reveal About State SNAP Options

Karen Cunnyngham

A Study of the Self-Employment Assistance Program: Helping Unemployed Workers Pursue Self-Employment

Elizabeth Weigensberg, Karen Needels, Alix Gould-Werth, Ankita Patnaik and Joanne Lee

Matching Study Designs to Disability-Related Comparative Effectiveness Research Questions

Jeffrey Ballou, Eugene Rich and Matthew Kehn

Design Options Report for a National Survey of Home Health Aides

Richard Strouse, Nancy Clusen, David DesRoches, Rita Stapulonis, John Hall and Brian Roff

Successful Vocational Rehabilitation Innovations: Building a Better Toolbox

Susan M. Foley and Gina Livermore

Personal Reemployment Accounts: How Would They Work?

Paul T. Decker and Irma Perez-Johnson

How Low-Income Fathers in Responsible Fatherhood Programs Perceive and Provide Financial Support for Their Children: Summary Brief

Quinn Moore, Rebekah Selekman, Ankita Patnaik and Heather Zaveri

Making a Plan and Sticking to It: Implementing an Enhanced Version of HealthTeacher in Chicago

Rachel Shapiro and Ellen Kisker

Ancillary Services to Support Welfare-to-Work

Amy Johnson and Alicia Meckstroth

Dietary Effects of the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program

Anne Gordon, Barbara L. Devaney and John Burghardt

An Assessment of Computer Matching in the Food Stamp Program Vol. III: Appendix Tables

William S. Borden and Robbi L. Ruben-Urm

The Negative Income Tax Experiment in New Jersey: General Discussion

David Kershaw

The Effects of Healthy Davis Together: A COVID-19 Response Program

Aparna Keshaviah, R. Vincent Pohl, Xindi (Cindy) Hu, Alyssa Maccarone, John Hotchkiss, Ian Huff, Hanzhi Zhou and Divya Vohra

The Potential of Home Visitor Services to Strengthen Welfare-to-Work Programs for Teenage Parents on Cash Assistance

Meredith Kelsey, Amy Johnson and Rebecca Maynard

Calibration of Self-Report Tools for Physical Activity Research: The Physical Activity Questionnaire (PAQ)

Pedro F. Saint-Maurice, Gregory J. Welk, Nicholas K. Beyler, Roderick T. Bartee and Kate A. Heelan

Difference-in-Differences Methods in Public Finance

Travis St. Clair and Thomas D. Cook

Spotlight on Massachusetts

Mynti Hossain, Grace Anglin, Rebecca Peters, Adam Weiss and Emily Hayes

Sponsoring Institution Interests, Not National Plans, Shape Physician Workforce in the United States

Diane R. Rittenhouse, Alexandra S. Ament and Kevin Grumbach

Compound-Risk Aversion, Ambiguity, and the Willingness to Pay for Microinsurance

Ghada Elabed and Michael Carter

Environmental Changes and Their Impacts

Brigette Courtot and Embry Howell

The Physician Workforce and Counting What Counts in Primary Care

Eugene C. Rich

Impact of Market Volatility on Medicare Beneficiaries

Beth Stevens and Cheryl Young

MAX and NCHS Survey Linkage, 1999-2009

Julie Sykes and Kerianne Hourihan

Movement of Children Between Medicaid and CHIP, 2005-2007

John L. Czajka

Project Evaluation Activity in Support of Partnership for Patients: Task 2 Evaluation Progress Report

Andrew Clarkwest, Arnold Chen, Maureen Higgins, Valerie Cheh, Jelena Zurovac, Keith Kranker, Gina M. Tignini, Robert Fornango, Julia Lewis and Sunny Bateman

A Brief Description of the Examining Data Informing Teaching (EDIT) Measure (brief)

Lauren Akers, Shannon Monahan, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Barbara Wasik, Judy Carta and Felicia Hurwitz

Rwanda Threshold Program Evaluation: Strengthening Civic Participation RNP Inspectorate Services and Media

Matt Sloan, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Lindsay Wood and Anu Rangarajan

Evaluation Interim Report for the Georgia II Improving General Education Quality Project's School Rehabilitation and Training Activities

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Nicholas Ingwersen, Camila Fernandez, Elena Moroz and Matt Sloan

Spotlight on Maryland: Health Insurance Premiums, the Underwriting Cycle and Carrier Surpluses

Deborah Chollet

Politics and Policy of Comparative Effectiveness: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Eugene C. Rich and Elizabeth Docteur