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

Mary Anne Anderson and Michelle Derr

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

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

Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Interventions on Schooling Outcomes Among Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Lusaka, Zambia (Working Paper)

Minki Chatterji, Paul Hutchinson, Nancy Murray, Kathy Buek, Yvonne Mulenga and Tom Ventimiglia

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

Laura Kimmey and Valerie Cheh

PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Toolkit

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

Higher Practice Intensity Is Associated with Higher Quality of Care but More Avoidable Admissions for Medicare Beneficiaries (Journal Article)

Bruce E. Landon, A. James O'Malley, M. Richard McKellar, Jack Hadley and James D. Reschovsky

Value-Added Models for the Pittsburgh Public Schools

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

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

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

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

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

Sheena McConnell

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

Catherine G. McLaughlin and Eric Lammers

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

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

Challenges and Successes of Pregnancy Assistance Fund Programs Supporting Young Fathers

Katherine Niland and Rebekah Selekman

The Evaluation of the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program Design Report, Volume II: Data Collection Instruments

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 6 Impacts

Matthew Johnson and Alicia Demers

Early Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Findings from Exploratory Site Visits and Review of Program Plans

Demetra Smith Nightingale, Terri Thompson, Nancy Pindus, Pamela Holcomb, Edgar Lee, Jesse Valente and John Trutko

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

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

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

Background of the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study

John Burghardt and Barbara L. Devaney

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

Ivette Gutierrez, Sukey Leshnick and Jillian Stein

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

Marsha Gold and Maria Cupples Hudson

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

Expanding Employer Engagement and Job Placement

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

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

James Ohls, Larry Radbill and Allen Schirm

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

Medicare Advantage 2004 Payment Increases Resulting from the Medicare Modernization Act

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

Impacts of Performance Pay Under the Teacher Incentive Fund: Study Design Report

Steven Glazerman, Hanley Chiang, Alison Wellington, Jill Constantine and Daniel Player

Challenges in Adolescent Reading Intervention: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Naihobe Gonzalez, Sophie MacIntyre and Pilar Beccar-Varela

The NQF Scientific Methods Panel: Enhancing the Review and Endorsement Process for Performance Measures

David R. Nerenz, David Cella, Lacy Fabian, Eugene Nuccio, John Bott, J. Matt Austin, Samuel Simon, Jack Needleman and Karen Johnson

Launching the Right Time Initiative: A Baseline Evaluation and Learning Report for a Comprehensive and Equity-Focused Reproductive Health Strategy in Missouri

So O'Neil and Emily Hoe

Analysis of Medical Expenditures and Service Use of Medicaid Buy-In Participants, 2002-2005 (Executive Summary)

Gilbert Gimm, Kristin L. Andrews, Jody Schimmel, Henry T. Ireys and Su Liu

Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement at KIPP Middle Schools (Presentation)

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill and Philip Gleason

The Challenge in Balancing Data Collection Innovations, Remaining Practical, and Being Cost-Effective (paper)

Leonard Hart, Scott Reid and Erin Slyne

Moving Toward Integrated Marketing Rules and Practices for Medicare and Medicaid Managed Care Plans

Michelle Herman Soper and Rivka Weiser

The Lancet Commission on the Future of Care and Clinical Research in Autism

Paul Shattuck and Others

Parenting Matters: Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children of which Kimberly Boller is a Member

The Quality Oncology Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Arnold Chen, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes, Sean Orzol, Clara Soh and Karen Sautter

Design Options Report for a National Survey of Home Health Aides

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

Why Do TRICARE Beneficiaries Miss Medical Appointments?

Breanna Wakar, Amy Gehrke and Nancy Clusen

Improving the Outcomes of Youth with Medical Limitations Through Comprehensive Training and Employment Services: Evidence from the National Job Corps Study

Heinrich Hock, Dara Lee Luca, Tim Kautz and David Stapleton

Early Learning About Healthy Relationships, Data Snapshot: Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth

Sarah Avellar, Alexandra Stanczyk, Nikki Aikens, Mathew Stange and Grace Roemer

Enhancing a Home Visiting Program to Address Repeat Adolescent Pregnancy: The Early Impacts of Steps to Success

Dana Rotz and Robert G. Wood

Spotlight on Massachusetts

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

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

The ARRA Investment in CER: A Description of the Midstream Evaluation and How the Funds Were Allocated and CER Priorities Addressed

Dominick Esposito, Pierre L. Yong, Eugene Rich, Kristin Geonnotti and Laura D. Kimmey

The Impact of a Home Visiting Program Enhanced to Address Repeat Adolescent Pregnancy: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Steps to Success

Dana Rotz, Menbere Shiferaw and Robert G. Wood

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

Asymdystopia: The Threat of Small Biases in Evaluations of Education Interventions that Need to be Powered to Detect Small Impacts

John Deke, Thomas Wei and Tim Kautz

National Survey of SSI Children and Families Sample Design

Frank Potter, Michael Sinclair and Bidisha Ghosh

Scheduler Issues in the Transition to Blaise

Leonard Hart

Care Coordination and Disease Management

Debra Lipson and Melanie Au

Choosing the Right Formula: Initial Report

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

Relaxing the FSP Vehicle Asset Test: Findings from the North Carolina Demonstration

Nancy Wemmerus and Bruce Gottlieb

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

The Status of Families on Child-Only TANF Cases

Robert G. Wood and Debra A. Strong

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

Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers' Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns

Robert G. Wood, Sarah Avellar and Brian Goesling

Sources of Variation in State-Level Food Stamp Participation Rates

Scott Cody, Allen Schirm, Elizabeth Stuart, Laura Castner and Alan Zaslavsky

Six Features of Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Programs that Cut Hospital Admissions of High-Risk Patients (Journal Article)

Randall S. Brown, Deborah Peikes, Greg Peterson, Jennifer Schore and Carol M. Razafindrakoto

Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home

David Meyers, Deborah Peikes, Stacy Dale, Eric Lundquist and Janice Genevro

PREP Snapshot: Inputs and Outcomes: PREP Programs Serving Youth in Foster Care

Lauren Murphy, Susan Zief and Lara Hulsey

Evaluation Technical Assistance Update for OAH & ACYF Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Grantees

Susan Zief, Brian Goesling and Jean Knab

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

David K. Baugh and Carol V. Irvin

Enhancing a Home Visiting Program to Address Repeat Adolescent Pregnancy: The Longer-Term Impacts of Steps to Success

Dana Rotz, Menbere Shiferaw and Robert G. Wood

The Mercy Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Karen Sautter, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Sherry Aliotta, Debbie Peikes and Sean Orzol

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

Ashley Short, Glen Mays and Jessica Mittler

Efficiency of Model-Assisted Regression Estimators in Sample Surveys

Jun Shao and Sheng Wang

Review of WIC Food Packages: Improving Balance and Choice (Brief)

Committee to review WIC food packages of which Mary Kay Fox is a Member

Using Behavioral Outreach to Counteract Administrative Burden and Encourage Take-Up of Simplified Disability Payment Rules

Michael Levere, David Wittenburg, Heinrich Hock and John T. Jones

Hidden Helpers at the Frontlines of Caregiving: Supporting the Healthy Development of Children from Military and Veteran Caregiving Homes

Steven Malick, Mayra Sandoval, Tatiana Santiago, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Amy Gehrke and Emily Metallic

Lessons from Pilot Tests of Recruitment for the Promoting Opportunity Demonstration

Heinrich Hock, Michael Levere, Kenneth Fortson and David Wittenburg

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Louisiana's LaCHIP Program

Nancy Fasciano

Tracking Medicare Health and Prescription Drug Plans: Monthly Report for September 2012

Winnie Wang and Marsha Gold

Evaluation of School Nutrition Policy

Philip Gleason

Medicare+Choice: Views from the Field

Cheryl Young and Jessica Mittler

White Paper on the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)

Charlotte Cabili, Esa Eslami and Ronette Briefel

Challenges and Opportunities in Caring for Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles: The Role of Special Needs Plans

James M. Verdier

Adoption of Electronic Health Records Grows Rapidly, But Fewer Than Half of US Hospitals had at Least a Basic System in 2012

Catherine M. DesRoches, Dustin Charles, Michael F. Furukawa, Maulik S. Joshi, Peter Kralovec, Farzad Mostashari and Chantal Worzala Ashish K. Jha

Improving Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) Programs for Unmarried Couples with Children

Julia Alamillo, Daniel Friend and Robert G. Wood

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

Evaluation of Teach For America: Lessons from a Randomized Field Trial in Education

Steven Glazerman

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

Improving Access to Language Services in Health Care: A Look at National and State Efforts

Melanie Au, Erin Fries Taylor and Marsha Gold

Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation

Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker and Daniel H. Klepinger

Design for the Evaluation of Early Elementary School Mathematics Curricula

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

Do Charter Middle Schools Improve Students' College Outcomes? (Evaluation Brief)

Kate Place and Philip Gleason

How are PCORI-Funded Researchers Engaging Patients in Research and What are the Ethical Implications?

Lauren E. Ellis and Nancy E. Kass

Predicting Disability Among Community-Dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries Using Claims-Based Indicators

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David C. Stapleton

A National Study of Neighborhood Safety, Outdoor Play, Television Viewing, and Obesity in Preschool Children

Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker

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

William S. Borden and Robbi L. Ruben-Urm

Evaluation of the Teach For America Program (Presentation)

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

Money Follows the Person 2013 Annual Evaluation Report

Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Wilfredo Lim, Rebecca SweetlLester and Victoria Peebles

Food Consumption Patterns of Infants and Toddlers: Where Are We Now?

Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Denise M. Deming, Kathleen C. Reidy, Mary Kay Fox, Elizabeth Condon and Ronette R. Briefel

Evaluation and Learning for the Maternal Health Quality of Care Strategy in India: Phase I Report

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Shamama Siddiqui

Alternative Routes to Teaching: The Impacts of Teach For America on Student Achievement and Other Outcomes

Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer and Paul Decker

Examining the Effects of Changes in Classroom Quality on Within-Child Changes in Achievement and Behavioral Outcomes

Tyler W. Watts, Tutrang Nguyen, Robert C. Carr, Lynne Vernon-Feagans and Clancy Blair

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: 2017 Stage 1 Interim Process, Participation, and Impact Report

Sarah Croake, Priyanka Anand, Christopher Jones, Katherine Morrison, Cara Orfield, David Stapleton, Denise Hoffman, David R. Mann, Judy Geyer, Daniel Gubits, Stephen Bell, Andrew McGuirk, Tyler Rose and David Wittenburg

Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers in Early Head Start

Diane Paulsell, Debra Mekos, Patricia Del Grosso, Patti Banghart and Renée Nogales

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