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Making a Plan and Sticking to It: Implementing an Enhanced Version of HealthTeacher in Chicago

Rachel Shapiro and Ellen Kisker

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

Brian Gill, Megan Shoji, Thomas Coen and Kate Place

Food Stamp Program Operations Study: Synthesis Report

Ruy A. Teixeira and William L. Hamilton

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

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Shamama Siddiqui

Designing Participant-Centered Programs: Participant Reflections on What Works Well in Social Services Programs

Akanksha Jayanthi, Asaph Glosser and Jordan Engel

The Effectiveness and Effects of Alcohol Regulation: Evidence from India

Dara Lee Luca, Emily Owens and Gunjan Sharma

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

Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason and Melissa Clark

Evaluation of the Teach For America Program (Presentation)

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

Case Study of Kentucky: Exploring Links Between Policy, Practice and the Trends in New Medicaid/SCHIP Enrollments

Christopher Trenholm and Bridget Lavin

Rwanda Threshold Program Evaluation: Strengthening Civic Participation RNP Inspectorate Services and Media

Matt Sloan, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Lindsay Wood and Anu Rangarajan

Will Health Care Reform Increase the Employment of People with Disabilities?

David Stapleton and Su Liu

Implementing Parenting Interventions in Early Care and Education Settings: A Guidebook for Implementation

Tamara Halle, Diane Paulsell, Sarah Daily, Anne Douglass, Shannon Moodie and Allison Metz

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

James Mabli

Difference-in-Differences Methods in Public Finance

Travis St. Clair and Thomas D. Cook

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

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

Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer and Paul Decker

San Francisco Bay Area: Major Players Drive Regional Network Development

Ha Tu, Len Finocchio, Annie Doubleday and Kristie Liao

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

Movement of Children Between Medicaid and CHIP, 2005-2007

John L. Czajka

Income and Poverty in 2002: The View from Five Surveys

John L. Czajka

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

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

Kelsey Farson Gray, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Lauffer

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

M. Robin Dion and Sarah A. Avellar

The QMed Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

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

Sampling with Uncertain Frame Counts: Challenges in Sampling Head Start Children for the FACES Study

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Program Performance and the President's Budget: Do OMB's PART Scores Really Matter?

Robert Olsen and Dan Levy

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

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

Michelle Herman Soper and Rivka Weiser

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

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

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

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

Jenna Libersky and Debra Lipson

The Effectiveness of Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing

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

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

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

Building a Future: Interim Impact Findings from the YouthBuild Evaluation (Executive Summary)

Cynthia Miller, Megan Millenky, Lisa Schwartz, Lisbeth Goble and Jillian Stein

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

Databases to Track Use of Preventive Services After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Anna Hill and JudyAnn Bigby

Children's Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables: Do School Environment and Policies Affect Choices at School and Away from School?

Ariun Ishdorj, Mary Kay Crepinsek and Helen Jensen

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

Ashley Short, Glen Mays and Jessica Mittler

Choosing the Right Formula: Initial Report

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

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 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

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 Complier Average Causal Effect Parameter for Multiarmed RCTs

Peter Z. Schochet

Youth Transition to Employment: Creating and Using a Community of Practice to Generate New Knowledge

Kelli Crane, Sarah Palmer and Todd Honeycutt

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

Naihobe Gonzalez, Sophie MacIntyre and Pilar Beccar-Varela

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2002

Randy Rosso and Melissa Faux

Impact of Market Volatility on Medicare Beneficiaries

Beth Stevens and Cheryl Young

The Physician Workforce and Counting What Counts in Primary Care

Eugene C. Rich

MAX and NCHS Survey Linkage, 1999-2009

Julie Sykes and Kerianne Hourihan

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

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

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

A Worksheet to Select Employment Interventions That Benefit Youth

Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere

Evaluation of UNICEF's Early Childhood Development Programme with Focus on Government of Netherlands Funding (2008-2010): Ghana Country Case Study Report

Kimberly Boller, Kathy Buek, Andrew Burwick, Minki Chatterji, Diane Paulsell, Samia Amin, Evan Borkum, Larissa Campuzano and Jessica Jacobson

The Evolving SNP Marketplace and the Role of States

James M. Verdier

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

Dallas Dotter, Duncan Chaplin and Maria Bartlett

Small Area Estimates Produced by the U.S. Federal Government: Methods and Issues

John L. Czajka

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

Steven Glazerman

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

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

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

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

Supports for Working Poor Families: A New Approach

Michael E. Fishman and Harold Beebout

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

Daniel Friend, Heather Zaveri and Kathleen Feeney

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

Nancy Fasciano

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

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

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

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

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

Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques—Part 3: Data Reduction Methods

Philip M. Gleason, Carol J. Boushey, Jeffrey E. Harris and Jamie Zoellner

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

Design for the Evaluation of Early Elementary School Mathematics Curricula

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

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

Politics and Policy of Comparative Effectiveness: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Eugene C. Rich and Elizabeth Docteur

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) 9-Month Twin Triad Restricted-Use Data File

Nikki Aikens, Nana Kwakye, Amy Rathbun, Jennifer Park and Jodi Jacobson Chernoff

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

Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker

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

Melanie Au, Erin Fries Taylor and Marsha Gold

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

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

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

Eric Grau

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

State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Children with Mental Illness

Henry Ireys, Lori Achman and Ama Takyi

The Status of Families on Child-Only TANF Cases

Robert G. Wood and Debra A. Strong

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

Employment Retention for TANF Recipients: Lessons From GAPS

Robert G. Wood and Diane Paulsell

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

Myles Maxfield, James Ohls and William S. Borden

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

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

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

State Strategies for Coordinating Medicaid and Housing Services

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

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

Kristin Wolff

Collecting, Using, and Reporting Medicaid Encounter Data: A Primer for States

Vivian L. H. Byrd and James Verdier

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

Going Beyond Test Scores: Evaluating Charter School Impact on Educational Attainment in Chicago and Florida

Kevin Booker, Tim Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer

The Negative Income Tax Experiment in New Jersey: General Discussion

David Kershaw

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

Evaluation of School Nutrition Policy

Philip Gleason

Sources of Variation in State-Level Food Stamp Participation Rates

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

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