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Findings from the Gary Income Maintenance Experiment: Testimony Before the House Committee on Ways and Means: Kenneth Kehrer
Spotlight on South Carolina: Dana Petersen, Christal Ramos, Emily Lawton and Amanda Napoles
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
Rwanda Threshold Program Evaluation: Strengthening Civic Participation RNP Inspectorate Services and Media: Matt Sloan, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Lindsay Wood and Anu Rangarajan
Policy Brief: Calibrating Performance Standards Across State Lines: How PARCC Predicts College Readiness: Erin Dillon, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Brian Gill and Kate Place
Going Beyond Test Scores: Evaluating Charter School Impact on Educational Attainment in Chicago and Florida: Kevin Booker, Tim Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer
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
Databases to Track Use of Preventive Services After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: Anna Hill and JudyAnn Bigby
Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers in Early Head Start: Diane Paulsell, Debra Mekos, Patricia Del Grosso, Patti Banghart and RenÃ©e Nogales
An Evaluation of the Chicago Teacher Advancement Program (Chicago TAP) After Four Years: Steven Glazerman and Allison Seifullah
Re-Imagining Accountability in K-12 Education: A Behavioral Science Perspective: Brian P. Gill, Jennifer S. Lerner and Paul Meosky
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
Low-Income Household Spending Patterns and Measures of Poverty (Summary): Laura Castner and James Mabli
Ready To Learn Workshop Participation: Short-Term Impacts: Amy Johnson, Cheri Vogel, Kimberly Boller and Stacey Uhl
The QMed Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year: Karen Sautter, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Sherry Aliotta, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol
Alternative Routes to Teaching: The Impacts of Teach For America on Student Achievement and Other Outcomes: Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer and Paul Decker
Medicaid Enrollment Gaps, 2005-2007: John L. Czajka
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 Potential of Home Visitor Services to Strengthen Welfare-to-Work Programs for Teenage Parents on Cash Assistance: Meredith Kelsey, Amy Johnson and Rebecca Maynard
New Work-Limiting Health Events and Occupational Transitions Among Older Workers: Jody Schimmel Hyde and April Yanyuan Wu
Evaluation of Teach For America: Lessons from a Randomized Field Trial in Education: Steven Glazerman
Efficiency of Model-Assisted Regression Estimators in Sample Surveys: Jun Shao and Sheng Wang
Successful Vocational Rehabilitation Innovations: Building a Better Toolbox: Susan M. Foley and Gina Livermore
State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Children with Mental Illness: Henry Ireys, Lori Achman and Ama Takyi
Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2002: Randy Rosso and Melissa Faux
Sampling with Uncertain Frame Counts: Challenges in Sampling Head Start Children for the FACES Study: Barbara Lepidus Carlson
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Local Program Outreach and Eligibility Services (Journal Article): James Mabli
Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 8 Impacts: Matthew Johnson and Daniel Thal
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
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
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
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
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
Measuring Co-Regulation: A Draft Tool for Observing Educators in Youth-Serving Programs: Julia Alamillo, Scott Baumgartner, Aly Frei and Mindy Herman-Stahl
Matching Study Designs to Disability-Related Comparative Effectiveness Research Questions: Jeffrey Ballou, Eugene Rich and Matthew Kehn
Supports for Working Poor Families: A New Approach: Michael E. Fishman and Harold Beebout
Evaluation Technical Assistance Update for OAH & ACYF Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Grantees: Susan Zief, Brian Goesling and Jean Knab
National Job Corps Study: Report on the Process Analysis: Terry Johnson, Mark Gritz, Russell Jackson, John Burghardt, Carol Boussy, Jan Leonard and Carlyn Orians
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
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
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
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
Implications of Integrated Services for Participation Levels in Low-Income Assistance Programs: Harold Beebout
Governing the Public Workforce System: The Structure and Priorities of Local Workforce Investment Boards: Kristin Wolff
A Worksheet to Select Employment Interventions That Benefit Youth: Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere
Collecting, Using, and Reporting Medicaid Encounter Data: A Primer for States: Vivian L. H. Byrd and James Verdier
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
Income and Poverty in 2002: The View from Five Surveys: John L. Czajka
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
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
A Portrait of Head Start Programs: Findings from FACES 2009: Emily Moiduddin, Ashley Kopack Klein, Louisa Tarullo, Jerry West and Nikki Aikens
The Effect of Course Shutouts on Community College Students: Evidence from Waitlist Cutoffs: Silvia Robles, Max Gross and Robert Fairlie
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
What the Data Reveal About State SNAP Options: Karen Cunnyngham
Reaching Those in Need: Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2012: Karen E. Cunnyngham
Age Group Differences in Progress toward Reducing Substance Use Disorders, 2015-2018: Ellen Bouchery
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
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
Medicare+Choice: Views from the Field: Cheryl Young and Jessica Mittler
Enhancing a Home Visiting Program to Address Repeat Adolescent Pregnancy: The Early Impacts of Steps to Success: Dana Rotz and Robert G. Wood
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
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
How are PCORI-Funded Researchers Engaging Patients in Research and What are the Ethical Implications?: Lauren E. Ellis and Nancy E. Kass
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 Family and Classroom Supports for Kindergarten Achievement: FACES 2009: Lizabeth Malone, Ashley Kopack Klein, Nikki Aikens, Jessica F. Harding, Jerry West and Louisa Tarullo
Which Medicaid Buy-In Participants Use SSA Work Supports?: Denise Hoffman and Jody Schimmel
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
Impacts of Performance Pay Under the Teacher Incentive Fund: Study Design Report: Steven Glazerman, Hanley Chiang, Alison Wellington, Jill Constantine and Daniel Player
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
Dietary Effects of the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program: Anne Gordon, Barbara L. Devaney and John Burghardt
Difference-in-Differences Methods in Public Finance: Travis St. Clair and Thomas D. Cook
New Data Available from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) (In Focus Brief): David K. Baugh and Carol V. Irvin
The Promise of Better Economic Outcomes for Workers with Musculoskeletal Conditions: Priyanka Anand and Yonatan Ben-Shalom
The Lancet Commission on the Future of Care and Clinical Research in Autism: Paul Shattuck and Others
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
National Survey of SSI Children and Families Sample Design: Frank Potter, Michael Sinclair and Bidisha Ghosh
Challenges in Adolescent Reading Intervention: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial: Naihobe Gonzalez, Sophie MacIntyre and Pilar Beccar-Varela
What Works for Whom? A Bayesian Approach to Channeling Big Data Streams for Policy Analysis: Mariel McKenzie Finucane, Ignacio Martinez and Scott Cody
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 of the Medicaid Managed Care Program of the Center for Health Care Strategies: Overview of Results: Marsha Gold, Erin Fries Taylor, Tara Krissik, Jessica Mittler and Justin White
Design for the Evaluation of Early Elementary School Mathematics Curricula: Roberto Agodini, John Deke, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Barbara Harris and Robert Murphy
Four States' Approaches to Practice-Level Quality Measurement and Reporting: Grace A. Ferry, Henry T. Ireys, Leslie Foster, Kelly J. Devers and Lauren Smith
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
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
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
Medicare Quality Monitoring System (MQMS): Monitoring Healthcare with Administrative Data: Lein F. Han and Myles Maxfield
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
The Challenge in Balancing Data Collection Innovations, Remaining Practical, and Being Cost-Effective (paper): Leonard Hart, Scott Reid and Erin Slyne
Program Performance and the President's Budget: Do OMB's PART Scores Really Matter?: Robert Olsen and Dan Levy
Why Do TRICARE Beneficiaries Miss Medical Appointments?: Breanna Wakar, Amy Gehrke and Nancy Clusen
Options for Validating Claims-Based Ambulatory Care Quality Data for Value-Based Purchasing: Myles Maxfield
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
Review of WIC Food Packages: Improving Balance and Choice (Brief): Committee to review WIC food packages of which Mary Kay Fox is a Member
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
State of Connecticut. Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges: Julie Darnell and Charles Nagatoshi
Evaluation of Prior Authorization in Medicare Nonemergent Ambulance Transport: Kara Contreary, Andrew Asher and Jared Coopersmith
Challenges and Opportunities in Caring for Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles: The Role of Special Needs Plans: James M. Verdier
The Effects of Teach For America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation (Working Paper): Paul T. Decker, Daniel P. Mayer and Steven Glazerman
Spotlight on Express Lane Eligibility (ELE): A Tool to Improve Enrollment and Renewal: Sheila D. Hoag

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