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

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

Baseline Report on the Farming Practices Survey

Kenneth Fortson, Daniel Player, Randall Blair and Anu Rangarajan

The QMed Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

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

Baseline Report for the Georgia Improving General Education Quality Project’s School Rehabilitation Activity

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

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

Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason and Melissa Clark

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

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

Kelsey Farson Gray, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Lauffer

Measuring Co-Regulation: A Draft Tool for Observing Educators in Youth-Serving Programs

Julia Alamillo, Scott Baumgartner, Aly Frei and Mindy Herman-Stahl

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

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 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

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

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

Steven Glazerman

Replicating and Scaling Up Evidence-Based Home Visiting Program: The Role of Implementation Research

Diane Paulsell

Inform Responsible Reopening Practices with Workforce Planning

Andrew Hurwitz and Michael Pappas

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

Nancy Fasciano

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

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

Naihobe Gonzalez, Sophie MacIntyre and Pilar Beccar-Varela

Low-Income Household Spending Patterns and Measures of Poverty (Summary)

Laura Castner and James Mabli

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

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

Scheduler Issues in the Transition to Blaise

Leonard Hart

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

The Central Role of Relationships to Trauma-Informed Integrated Care for Children and Youth

Jonathan D. Brown, Melissa A. King and Lawrence S. Wissow

Trends in Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Utilization and Setting From 2008 to 2017

Aidan R. Larsen, Janet R. Cummings, Silke A. von Esenwein and Benjamin G. Druss

Measuring Up: A Novel Approach to Assessing State Oversight of Medicaid Managed Care

Jenna Libersky and Debra Lipson

Building College and Career Pathways for High School Students: Youth CareerConnect, Technical Report for the Impact Study

Paul Burkander, Nan Maxwell, Menbere Shiferaw, Matt Jacobus, Alma Vigil, Charles Tilley, Alicia Harrington, Erin Dillon, Hande Inanc and Peter Schochet

Looking at Medicare Advantage: What Has Happened Since the Launch? What Will Happen in the Future?

Marsha Gold, Erin Fries Taylor, Christopher Fleming, Dawn Phelps, Maria Cupples Hudson and Miriam Loewenberg

Evaluation of School Nutrition Policy

Philip Gleason

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

Which Medicaid Buy-In Participants Use SSA Work Supports?

Denise Hoffman and Jody Schimmel

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

Statistical Theory for the RCT-YES Software: Design-Based Causal Inference for RCTs

Peter Z. Schochet

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

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

State Strategies for Coordinating Medicaid and Housing Services

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

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

Nonrespondents and Nonresponse Bias: Evidence from a Survey of Former Welfare Recipients in Iowa

Jacqueline Kauff, Robert Olsen and Thomas Fraker

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

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

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

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

Elementary School Data Issues for Value-Added Models: Implications for Research (Journal Article)

Eric Isenberg, Bing-ru Teh and Elias Walsh

Evaluation of Health Care Innovation Awards (HCIA): Primary Care Redesign Programs, First Annual Report Volume I: Technical Report

Boyd Gilman, Sheila Hoag, Lorenzo Moreno, Greg Peterson, Linda Barterian, Laura Blue, Kristin Geonnotti, Tricia Higgins, Mynti Hossain, Lauren Hula, Rosalind Keith, Jennifer Lyons, Brenda Natzke, Brenna Rabel, Rumin Sarwar, Rachel Shapiro, Cara Stepanczuk, Victoria Peebles, KeriAnn Wells and Joseph Zickafoose

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

Winnie Wang and Marsha Gold

Type of Health Insurance and the Substance Abuse Treatment Gap

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

Sources of Variation in State-Level Food Stamp Participation Rates

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

Money Follows the Person Demonstration: Overview of State Grantee Progress, July to December 2011

Susan R. Williams, Debra Lipson, Noelle Denny-Brown, Rebecca Lester, Bailey Orshan, Christal Stone and Matthew Kehn

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

Case Study of New Jersey's Express Lane Eligibility Processes

Sheila Hoag and Adam Swinburn

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Local Program Outreach and Eligibility Services (Journal Article)

James Mabli

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

Robert G. Wood, Sarah Avellar and Brian Goesling

The Complier Average Causal Effect Parameter for Multiarmed RCTs

Peter Z. Schochet

Options for Validating Claims-Based Ambulatory Care Quality Data for Value-Based Purchasing

Myles Maxfield

Evaluation of Prior Authorization in Medicare Nonemergent Ambulance Transport

Kara Contreary, Andrew Asher and Jared Coopersmith

Medicare Quality Monitoring System (MQMS): Monitoring Healthcare with Administrative Data

Lein F. Han and Myles Maxfield

Four States' Approaches to Practice-Level Quality Measurement and Reporting

Grace A. Ferry, Henry T. Ireys, Leslie Foster, Kelly J. Devers and Lauren Smith

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

Michelle K. Derr, Heather Hill and LaDonna Pavetti

The Status of Families on Child-Only TANF Cases

Robert G. Wood and Debra A. Strong

Understanding the Disability Dynamics of Youth: Health Condition and Limitation Changes for Youth and Their Influence on Longitudinal Survey Attrition

David R. Mann and Todd Honeycutt

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

Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home

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

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): Questionnaire

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

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

A Worksheet to Select Employment Interventions That Benefit Youth

Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2002

Randy Rosso and Melissa Faux

Supports for Working Poor Families: A New Approach

Michael E. Fishman and Harold Beebout

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

Competencies and Strategies of Effective School Turnaround Leaders (Infographic)

Mid-Atlantic administered by Mathematica Policy Research Rel

Do Consumer-Directed Medicaid Supportive Services Work for Children with Developmental Disabilities?

Leslie Foster, Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips, Jennifer Schore and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Detailed Qualitative Data, Case Studies and Cost Data

Arif Mamun, David Kisitu and Minki Chatterji

Serving Elders at Risk: The Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs National Evaluation of the Elderly Nutrition Program 1993-1995. Volume II: Title VI Evaluation Findings

Michael Ponza, James C. Ohls, Barbara E. Millen, Audrey M. McCool, Karen E. Needels, Linda Rosenberg, Dexter Chu, Catherine Daly and Paula A. Quatromoni

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 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

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

Brian Gill, Megan Shoji, Thomas Coen and Kate Place

False Choices, Policy Framing, and the Promise of "Big Data"

Paul Decker

The Evolving SNP Marketplace and the Role of States

James M. Verdier

Durable Medical Equipment and Home Health Among the Largest Contributors to Area Variations in Use of Medicare Services (Summary)

James D. Reschovsky, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kate A. Stewart and Deborah J. Chollet

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

Lessons from Pilot Tests of Recruitment for the Promoting Opportunity Demonstration

Heinrich Hock, Michael Levere, Kenneth Fortson and David Wittenburg

Helping Working Families After Welfare: Access to New Jersey's Support Services

Linda C. Rosenberg, Charles Nagatoshi and Richard Roper

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

Landscape Analysis of Non-Cognitive Measures

Sally Atkins-Burnett, Camila Fernandez, Lauren Akers, Jessica Jacobson and Claire Smither-Wulsin

Measuring the Impacts of School Reforms in the District of Columbia on Student Achievement (Issue Brief)

Dallas Dotter, Duncan Chaplin and Maria Bartlett

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

Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation

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

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): 2002, Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities

Synectics for Management Decisions and Inc. Mathematica Policy Research

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

Kate Place and Philip Gleason

Income and Poverty in 2002: The View from Five Surveys

John L. Czajka

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

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

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

Harold Beebout

Washington, D.C., Area Health Care Market Sticks to Fee for Service; Dips Toe into Value-Based Payment

Ha T. Tu, Laurie Felland, Paul B. Ginsburg, Kristie Liao, Kevin Draper and Rebecca Gourevitch

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

M. Robin Dion and Sarah A. Avellar

Policy Brief: Calibrating Performance Standards Across State Lines: How PARCC Predicts College Readiness

Erin Dillon, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Brian Gill and Kate Place

Assessment of Bias When Field Operations Are Curtailed in a Mixed-Mode Telephone and Face-to-Face Survey of Persons with Disabilities

Eric Grau

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Maryland PROMISE Process Analysis Report

Jacqueline Kauff, Todd Honeycutt, Karen Katz, Joseph Mastrianni and Adele Rizzuto

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

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

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

Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer and Paul Decker

Enriching the Home Environment of Low-Income Families in Colombia: A Strategy to Promote Child Development at Scale

Orazio Attanasio, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Camila Fernández, Emla Fitzsimons, Marta Rubio-Codina and Costas Meghir