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Moving Toward Integrated Marketing Rules and Practices for Medicare and Medicaid Managed Care Plans: Michelle Herman Soper and Rivka Weiser
What Works for Whom? A Bayesian Approach to Channeling Big Data Streams for Policy Analysis: Mariel McKenzie Finucane, Ignacio Martinez and Scott Cody
Low-Income Household Spending Patterns and Measures of Poverty (Summary): Laura Castner and James Mabli
Nonrespondents and Nonresponse Bias: Evidence from a Survey of Former Welfare Recipients in Iowa: Jacqueline Kauff, Robert Olsen and Thomas Fraker
2012 and 2014 Regional Partnership Grants to Increase the Well-Being of and to Improve the Permanency Outcomes for Children Affected by Substance Abuse: Fourth Annual Report to Congress: Mathematica Policy Research
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
Second Report to Congress on the Evaluation of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration: Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen, Judy Ng, Jennifer Schore and Clara Soh
Closing the Reading Gap: First Year Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers: Joseph Torgesen, David Myers, Allen Schirm, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Sonya Vartivarian, Wendy Mansfield, Fran Stancavage, Donna Durno, Rosanne Javorsky and Cinthia Haan
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
The Mercy Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year: Karen Sautter, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Sherry Aliotta, Debbie Peikes and Sean Orzol
Lessons from Pilot Tests of Recruitment for the Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Heinrich Hock, Michael Levere, Kenneth Fortson and David Wittenburg
Measuring Up: Learning About Improving Equity from Australiaâ€™s Early Childhood Development Census: Kimberly Boller and Yasmin Harman-Smith
Sampling with Uncertain Frame Counts: Challenges in Sampling Head Start Children for the FACES Study: Barbara Lepidus Carlson
State at a Glance: Alaska: Grace Anglin, Ian Hill, Ashley Palmer, Margo Wilkinson and Arnav Shah
Challenges in Adolescent Reading Intervention: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial: Naihobe Gonzalez, Sophie MacIntyre and Pilar Beccar-Varela
Using Hospital Data to Predict Child Maltreatment Risk: Emily Putnam-Hornstein, John Prindle, Rebecca Rebbe, Jeannie Huang, Cynthia Kuelbs, Sarah Vega and Regan Foust
Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home: David Meyers, Deborah Peikes, Stacy Dale, Eric Lundquist and Janice Genevro
Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Louisiana's LaCHIP Program: Nancy Fasciano
Developing and Evaluating Methods for Using American Community Survey Data to Support the School Meals Program: Interim Report: Allen Schirm Nancy Kirkendall and Editors
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Local Program Outreach and Eligibility Services (Journal Article): James Mabli
Alternative Routes to Teaching: The Impacts of Teach For America on Student Achievement and Other Outcomes: Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer and Paul Decker
Impact of Market Volatility on Medicare Beneficiaries: Beth Stevens and Cheryl Young
Food Stamp Program Operations Study: Synthesis Report: Ruy A. Teixeira and William L. Hamilton
Methodological Notes Regarding the Impact Analysis: Peter Z. Schochet, Ronald D'Amico, Jillian Berk and Nathan Wozny
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 Challenge in Balancing Data Collection Innovations, Remaining Practical, and Being Cost-Effective (paper): Leonard Hart, Scott Reid and Erin Slyne
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
Tracking Medicare Health and Prescription Drug Plans: Monthly Report for September 2012: Winnie Wang and Marsha Gold
Elementary School Data Issues for Value-Added Models: Implications for Research (Journal Article): Eric Isenberg, Bing-ru Teh and Elias Walsh
The Status of Families on Child-Only TANF Cases: Robert G. Wood and Debra A. Strong
What the Data Reveal About State SNAP Options: Karen Cunnyngham
Medicare+Choice: Views from the Field: Cheryl Young and Jessica Mittler
Using Lotteries to Evaluate Schools of Choice: Evidence from a National Study of Charter Schools: Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason and Melissa Clark
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
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
Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers in Early Head Start: Diane Paulsell, Debra Mekos, Patricia Del Grosso, Patti Banghart and RenÃ©e Nogales
The Promise and Challenge of Using Volunteers to Provide Community-Based Marriage Education: M. Robin Dion and Sarah A. Avellar
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
A Portrait of Head Start Programs: Findings from FACES 2009: Emily Moiduddin, Ashley Kopack Klein, Louisa Tarullo, Jerry West and Nikki Aikens
Spotlight on South Carolina: Dana Petersen, Christal Ramos, Emily Lawton and Amanda Napoles
Implications of Integrated Services for Participation Levels in Low-Income Assistance Programs: Harold Beebout
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
State of Connecticut. Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges: Julie Darnell and Charles Nagatoshi
Policy Brief: Calibrating Performance Standards Across State Lines: How PARCC Predicts College Readiness: Erin Dillon, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Brian Gill and Kate Place
Helping Working Families After Welfare: Access to New Jersey's Support Services: Linda C. Rosenberg, Charles Nagatoshi and Richard Roper
Examining Substance Use Disorder Treatment Demand and Provider Capacity in a Changing Health Care System: Initial Findings Report: Ellen Bouchery, Rebecca Morris and Jasmine Little
Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniquesâ€”Part 3: Data Reduction Methods: Philip M. Gleason, Carol J. Boushey, Jeffrey E. Harris and Jamie Zoellner
False Choices, Policy Framing, and the Promise of "Big Data": Paul Decker
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
Statistical Theory for the RCT-YES Software: Design-Based Causal Inference for RCTs: Peter Z. Schochet
Diet Quality of American Young Children by WIC Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2008 (Summary): Elizabeth Condon, Susan Drilea, Carolyn Lichtenstein, James Mabli, Emily Madden and Katherine Niland
Going Beyond Test Scores: Evaluating Charter School Impact on Educational Attainment in Chicago and Florida: Kevin Booker, Tim Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer
Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006: Ellen E. Bouchery, Henrick J. Harwood, Jeffrey J. Sacks, Carol J. Simon and Robert D. Brewer
A National Study of Neighborhood Safety, Outdoor Play, Television Viewing, and Obesity in Preschool Children: Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker
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
Evaluation and Learning for the Maternal Health Quality of Care Strategy in India: Phase I Report: So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Shamama Siddiqui
Food for Thought: Children's Diets in the 1990s: Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor
Employment Retention for TANF Recipients: Lessons From GAPS: Robert G. Wood and Diane Paulsell
Enriching the Home Environment of Low-Income Families in Colombia: A Strategy to Promote Child Development at Scale: Orazio Attanasio, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Camila FernÃ¡ndez, Emla Fitzsimons, Marta Rubio-Codina and Costas Meghir
Case Study of New Jersey's Express Lane Eligibility Processes: Sheila Hoag and Adam Swinburn
Competencies and Strategies of Effective School Turnaround Leaders (Infographic): Mid-Atlantic administered by Mathematica Policy Research Rel
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
Making a Plan and Sticking to It: Implementing an Enhanced Version of HealthTeacher in Chicago: Rachel Shapiro and Ellen Kisker
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
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
The Content, Predictive Power, and Potential Bias in Five Widely Used Teacher Observation Instruments: Brian Gill, Megan Shoji, Thomas Coen and Kate Place
Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2015 (Summary): Kelsey Farson Gray, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Lauffer
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
White Paper on the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP): Charlotte Cabili, Esa Eslami and Ronette Briefel
Detailed Qualitative Data, Case Studies and Cost Data: Arif Mamun, David Kisitu and Minki Chatterji
A New Role Emerges for Principal Supervisors: Evidence from Six Districts in the Principal Supervisor Initiative: Ellen B. Goldring, Jason A. Grissom, Mollie Rubin, Laura K. Rogers, Michael Neel and Melissa A. Clark
Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) Are Promising Laboratories for Conduction Dissemination and Implementation Research: John Heintzman, Rachel Gold, Alexander Krist, Jay Crosson, Sonja Likumahuwa and Jennifer E. DeVoe
Speaking on Dataâ€™s Behalf: What Researchers Say and How Audiences Choose: Jesse J. Chandler, Ignacio Martinez, Mariel M. Finucane, Jeffrey G. Terziev and Alexandra M. Resch
The Effects of Teach For America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation (Working Paper): Paul T. Decker, Daniel P. Mayer and Steven Glazerman
Elderly Nutrition Program Evaluation Literature Review: Michael Ponza, James C. Ohls and Barbara M. Posner
A Portrait of Head Start Classrooms and Programs in Spring 2020: FACES 2019 Descriptive Data Tables and Study Design: Elizabeth Doran, Natalie Reid, Sara Bernstein, Tutrang Nguyen, Myley Dang, Ann Li, Ashley Kopack Klein, Sharika Rakibullah, Myah Scott, Judy Cannon, Jeff Harrington, Addison Larson, Louisa Tarullo and Lizabeth Malone
Managing the Care of Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: A Review of Selected State Programs and Special Needs Plans: James M. Verdier, Melanie Au and Jessica Gillooly
Head Start Programs in Spring 2015: Structure, Staff, and Supports for Quality from FACES 2014: Julia Alamillo, Nikki Aikens, Emily Moiduddin, Charlie Bush, Lizabeth Malone and Louisa Tarullo
Two Studies of Father Involvement in Early Head Start Programs: A National Survey and a Demonstration Program Evaluation: Helen H. Raikes and Jeanne Bellotti
Personal Reemployment Accounts: How Would They Work?: Paul T. Decker and Irma Perez-Johnson
The Impact of the Regional Partnership Grant Program on Adult Recovery and Well-Being, and Child Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being Outcomes: Russell Cole, Alyson Burnett and Debra Strong
Are Low-Performing Schools Adopting Practices Promoted by School Improvement Grants? (In Focus Brief): Mariesa Herrmann, Lisa Dragoset and Susanne James-Burdumy
Supports for Working Poor Families: A New Approach: Michael E. Fishman and Harold Beebout
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
Measuring Recent Apparent Declines in Longevity: The Role of Increasing Educational Attainment: John Bound, Arline T. Geronimus, Javier M. Rodriguez and Timothy A. Waidmann
Do Charter Middle Schools Improve Students' College Outcomes? (Evaluation Brief): Kate Place and Philip Gleason
A Worksheet to Select Employment Interventions That Benefit Youth: Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere
Movement of Children Between Medicaid and CHIP, 2005-2007: John L. Czajka
Association Between NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition for Primary Care Practices and Quality of Care for Children with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs: Kate A. Stewart, Joseph S. Zickafoose, Beny Wu, Randall S. Brown and Henry T. Ireys
Preventive Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Reduce Severe Wasting and Severe Stunting Among Young Children: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials: Clair Null, Kathryn G. Dewey, Charles D. Arnold, K. Ryan Wessells, Elizabeth L. Prado, Souheila Abbeddou, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Hasmot Ali, Benjamin F. Arnold, Per Ashorn, Ulla Ashorn, Sania Ashraf, Elodie Becquey, Kenneth H. Brown, Parul Christian, John M. Colford, Jr, Sherlie J. L. Dulience, Lia C. H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Lotta Hallamaa, Sonja Y. Hess, Jean H. Humphrey, Lieven Huybregts, Lora L. Iannottie, Kaniz Jannat, Anna Lartey, Agnes Le Port, Jef Leroy, Stephen P. Luby, Kenneth Maleta, Susana L. Matias, Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya, Malay K. Mridha, Minyanga Nkhoma, Rina R. Paul, Harriet Okronipa, Jean-Bosco OuÃ©draogo, Amy J. Pickering, Andrew J. Prendergast, Marie Ruel, Saijuddin Shaikh, Ann M. Weber, Patricia Wolff, Amanda Zongrone and Christine P Stewart
Improving Physical Health Among People With Serious Mental Illness: The Role of the Specialty Mental Health Sector: Jonathan Brown, Emma E. McGinty, Rachel Presskreischer, Joshua Breslau, Marisa Elena Domino, Benjamin G. Druss, Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Karly A. Murphy, Harold Alan Pincus and Gail L. Daumit
Designing Participant-Centered Programs: Participant Reflections on What Works Well in Social Services Programs: Akanksha Jayanthi, Asaph Glosser and Jordan Engel
Spotlight on Massachusetts: Mynti Hossain, Grace Anglin, Rebecca Peters, Adam Weiss and Emily Hayes
Addressing Mental Health Problems Among TANF Recipients: A Guide for Program Administrators: Michelle K. Derr, Heather Hill and LaDonna Pavetti
Evaluation of the National School Lunch Program Application/Verification Pilot Projects, Volume II: Data Collection Study Methods and Supplementary Tables on Certification Impacts: John Burghardt, Philip M. Gleason, Michael Sinclair, Rhoda Cohen, Lara Hulsey and Julita Milliner-Waddell
Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers' Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns: Robert G. Wood, Sarah Avellar and Brian Goesling
MAX and NCHS Survey Linkage, 1999-2009: Julie Sykes and Kerianne Hourihan
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
Options for Validating Claims-Based Ambulatory Care Quality Data for Value-Based Purchasing: Myles Maxfield
Housing for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care (In Focus Brief): Robin Dion

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