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

Allen Schirm Nancy Kirkendall and Editors

The Effectiveness of Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing

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

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: 2015 Stage 2 Interim Process, Participation, and Impact Report

Daniel Gubits, Judy Geyer, Denise Hoffman, Sarah Croake, Utsav Kattel, David Judkins, Stephen Bell and David Stapleton

Food for Thought: Children's Diets in the 1990s

Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor

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

The Accelerated Benefits Demonstration and Evaluation Project: Impacts on Health and Employment at Twelve Months

Charles Michalopoulos, David Wittenburg, Dina A. R. Israel, Jennifer Schore, Anne Warren, Aparajita Zutshi, Stephen Freedman and Lisa Schwartz

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 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

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

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

Winnie Wang and Marsha Gold

Detailed Qualitative Data, Case Studies and Cost Data

Arif Mamun, David Kisitu and Minki Chatterji

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

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

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

Options for a National Database to Track Participation in Federal Means-Tested Public Assistance Programs

Myles Maxfield, James Ohls and William S. Borden

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

Kenneth Kehrer

Creation of the November 1999 MATH SIPP Microsimulation Model and Database

Mike Bloom

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

Environmental Changes and Their Impacts

Brigette Courtot and Embry Howell

Movement of Children Between Medicaid and CHIP, 2005-2007

John L. Czajka

The HCBS Taxonomy: A New Language for Classifying Home- and Community-Based Services (Journal Article)

Victoria Peebles and Alex Bohl

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

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

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

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

Beyond a Summer Work Experience: The Recovery Act 2009 Post-Summer Youth Employment Initiative

Pamela Holcomb, Jessica Ziegler and Elizabeth Laird

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Colorado's Child Health Plan Plus CHP

Nancy Fasciano and Ruchika Bajaj

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

Analysis of the 1985 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals Volume 1: Estimating Usual Dietary Intake, Assessing Dietary Adequacy, and Estimating Program Effects: Applications of Three Advanced Methodologies Using FNS's Four-Day Analysis File

Thomas Fraker, Sharon K. Long and Charles E. Post

Choosing the Right Formula: Initial Report

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

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

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

Matching Study Designs to Disability-Related Comparative Effectiveness Research Questions

Jeffrey Ballou, Eugene Rich and Matthew Kehn

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

Deborah Chollet

Care Coordination and Disease Management

Debra Lipson and Melanie Au

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

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

Julia Alamillo, Daniel Friend and Robert G. Wood

MAX and NCHS Survey Linkage, 1999-2009

Julie Sykes and Kerianne Hourihan

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

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

Kristin Wolff

State of Connecticut. Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges

Julie Darnell and Charles Nagatoshi

Which Medicaid Buy-In Participants Use SSA Work Supports?

Denise Hoffman and Jody Schimmel

Comparative Regression Discontinuity and Regression Discontinuity as Alternatives to Randomized Controlled Trials for Estimating Average Treatment Effects

Duncan Chaplin, Charles Tilley, Denise Hoffman and John T. Jones

Timing of Introduction of Complementary Foods and Beverages and Growth, Size, and Body Composition: A Systematic Review

Laural K. English, Julie E. Obbagy, Yat Ping Wong, Nancy F. Butte, Kathryn G. Dewey, Mary Kay Fox, Frank R. Greer, Nancy F. Krebs, Kelley S. Scanlon and Eve E. Stoody

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

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2015 (Summary)

Kelsey Farson Gray, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Lauffer

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

Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker

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

Kate Place and Philip Gleason

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

Steven Glazerman and Allison Seifullah

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

Dana Rotz and Robert G. Wood

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

Informal Caregivers Research Project (INCARE): Ecomap Interview Protocol

C. Jacobs Johnson, J. Thomas, K. Boller and M. Young

The Promise and Challenge of Using Volunteers to Provide Community-Based Marriage Education

M. Robin Dion and Sarah A. Avellar

Structuring Payment to Medical Homes After the Affordable Care Act

Samuel T. Edwards, Melinda K. Abrams, Richard J. Baron, Robert A. Berenson, Eugene C. Rich, Gary E. Rosenthal, Meredith B. Rosenthal and Bruce E. Landon

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

Analysis of Proposed Changes to SNAP Eligibility and Benefit Determination in the 2013 Farm Bill and Comparison of Cardiometabolic Health Status for SNAP Participants and Low-Income Nonparticipants

Joshua Leftin, Allison Dodd, Kai Filion, Rebecca Wang, Andrew Gothro and Karen Cunnyngham

The Negative Income Tax Experiment in New Jersey: General Discussion

David Kershaw

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 Physician Workforce and Counting What Counts in Primary Care

Eugene C. Rich

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

Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer and Paul Decker

A Portrait of Head Start Programs: Findings from FACES 2009

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

Type of Health Insurance and the Substance Abuse Treatment Gap

Ellen Englert Bouchery, Henrick J. Harwood, Joan Dilonardo and Rita Vandivort-Warren

Implications of Integrated Services for Participation Levels in Low-Income Assistance Programs

Harold Beebout

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in TRICARE (Journal Article)

Ann D. Bagchi, Eric Schone, Patricia Higgins, Elder Granger, S. Ward Casscells and Thomas Croghan

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

Melanie Au, Erin Fries Taylor and Marsha Gold

Spotlight on Vermont

Grace Anglin, Kelly Devers, Rebecca Peters, Vanessa Forsberg and Emily Lawton

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

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

Economic Conditions of Head Start Families: Connections with Social Supports and Child and Family Well-Being

Elizabeth Doran, Nikki Aikens, Lizabeth Malone, Jeff Harrington and Judy Cannon

Competencies and Strategies of Effective School Turnaround Leaders (Infographic)

Mid-Atlantic administered by Mathematica Policy Research Rel

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

Case Study of New Jersey's Express Lane Eligibility Processes

Sheila Hoag and Adam Swinburn

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

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

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

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 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

The Content, Predictive Power, and Potential Bias in Five Widely Used Teacher Observation Instruments

Brian Gill, Megan Shoji, Thomas Coen and Kate Place

Using Lotteries to Evaluate Schools of Choice: Evidence from a National Study of Charter Schools

Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason and Melissa Clark

A Worksheet to Select Employment Interventions That Benefit Youth

Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere

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

Baseline Report on the Farming Practices Survey

Kenneth Fortson, Daniel Player, Randall Blair and Anu Rangarajan

State Strategies for Coordinating Medicaid and Housing Services

Rebecca Kleinman, Matthew Kehn, Allison Wishon Siegwarth and Jonathan Brown

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

Methodological Notes Regarding the Impact Analysis

Peter Z. Schochet, Ronald D'Amico, Jillian Berk and Nathan Wozny

Measuring Recent Apparent Declines in Longevity: The Role of Increasing Educational Attainment

John Bound, Arline T. Geronimus, Javier M. Rodriguez and Timothy A. Waidmann

The QMed Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

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

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 Ouédraogo, Amy J. Pickering, Andrew J. Prendergast, Marie Ruel, Saijuddin Shaikh, Ann M. Weber, Patricia Wolff, Amanda Zongrone and Christine P Stewart

Why Do TRICARE Beneficiaries Miss Medical Appointments?

Breanna Wakar, Amy Gehrke and Nancy Clusen

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

Independent Evaluation of Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+): First Annual Report

Deborah Peikes, Grace Anglin, Mary Harrington, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kristin Geonnotti, Ann O'Malley, Stacy Dale, Sheila Hoag, Dana Petersen, Pragya Singh, Ha Tu, Laura Blue, Sean Orzol, Rosalind Keith, Anne Mutti, Genna Cohen, Tricia Higgins, Laurie Felland, Linda Barterian, Victoria Peebles, Amanda Lechner, Nikkilyn Morrison, Melanie Au, Jessica Laird, Grace Oh, Rachel Machta, Jasmine Little and Randall Brown

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

Improving the School Attendance of New Jersey's Youngest Learners: Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades: Risk Factors and What Schools Can Do

Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz

Housing for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care (In Focus Brief)

Robin Dion

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

Lauren E. Ellis and Nancy E. Kass

Impact of Market Volatility on Medicare Beneficiaries

Beth Stevens and Cheryl Young

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

Addressing Mental Health Problems Among TANF Recipients: A Guide for Program Administrators

Michelle K. Derr, Heather Hill and LaDonna Pavetti

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

Susan Zief, Brian Goesling and Jean Knab

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

Ellen Bouchery

Implementation of Career STREAMS: An Integrated Employment and Healthy Relationship Program for Young Adults

Daniel Friend, Heather Zaveri and Kathleen Feeney

Re-Imagining Accountability in K-12 Education: A Behavioral Science Perspective

Brian P. Gill, Jennifer S. Lerner and Paul Meosky