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QRS Profile: Delaware Stars for Early Success

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

The Promise of Better Economic Outcomes for Workers with Musculoskeletal Conditions

Priyanka Anand and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Employment Retention for TANF Recipients: Lessons From GAPS

Robert G. Wood and Diane Paulsell

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

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

James Mabli

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

Income and Poverty in 2002: The View from Five Surveys

John L. Czajka

Landscape Analysis of Non-Cognitive Measures

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

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

Deborah Chollet

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

Elderly Nutrition Program Evaluation Literature Review

Michael Ponza, James C. Ohls and Barbara M. Posner

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

Robert G. Wood, Sarah Avellar and Brian Goesling

Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation

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

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

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

Julia Alamillo, Daniel Friend and Robert G. Wood

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

Lein F. Han and Myles Maxfield

The New Heights Evaluation: Implementing an Effective School-Based Program for Expectant and Parenting Teens

Susan Zief, Julie Worthington and Subuhi Asheer

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2002

Randy Rosso and Melissa Faux

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

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

Michelle Herman Soper and Rivka Weiser

Program Subgroups: Patterns of Impacts for Home-Based, Center-Based, and Mixed-Approach Programs

Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Helen H. Raikes and Cheri Vogel

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

Kate Place and Philip Gleason

Quantifying the Health Insurance Needs of Employed and Potentially Employed Persons with Disabilities

Jack Gettens, Alexis Henry and Pei-Pei Lei

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

Pamela Holcomb, Jessica Ziegler and Elizabeth Laird

Personal Reemployment Accounts: How Would They Work?

Paul T. Decker and Irma Perez-Johnson

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

The Mercy Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

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

Successful Vocational Rehabilitation Innovations: Building a Better Toolbox

Susan M. Foley and Gina Livermore

Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 8 Impacts

Matthew Johnson and Daniel Thal

The Effectiveness and Effects of Alcohol Regulation: Evidence from India

Dara Lee Luca, Emily Owens and Gunjan Sharma

Detailed Qualitative Data, Case Studies and Cost Data

Arif Mamun, David Kisitu and Minki Chatterji

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

Sources of Variation in State-Level Food Stamp Participation Rates

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

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

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

Ellen Bouchery

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

Victoria Peebles and Alex Bohl

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

Winnie Wang and Marsha Gold

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

Linda C. Rosenberg, Charles Nagatoshi and Richard Roper

Environmental Changes and Their Impacts

Brigette Courtot and Embry Howell

Impact of Market Volatility on Medicare Beneficiaries

Beth Stevens and Cheryl Young

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

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

Akanksha Jayanthi, Asaph Glosser and Jordan Engel

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

Competencies and Strategies of Effective School Turnaround Leaders (Infographic)

Mid-Atlantic administered by Mathematica Policy Research Rel

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

Which Medicaid Buy-In Participants Use SSA Work Supports?

Denise Hoffman and Jody Schimmel

New Data Available from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) (In Focus Brief)

David K. Baugh and Carol V. Irvin

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

Ashley Short, Glen Mays and Jessica Mittler

Creation of the November 1999 MATH SIPP Microsimulation Model and Database

Mike Bloom

Difference-in-Differences Methods in Public Finance

Travis St. Clair and Thomas D. Cook

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

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

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

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

Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Two Studies of Father Involvement in Early Head Start Programs: A National Survey and a Demonstration Program Evaluation

Helen H. Raikes and Jeanne Bellotti

What Works for Whom? A Bayesian Approach to Channeling Big Data Streams for Policy Analysis

Mariel McKenzie Finucane, Ignacio Martinez and Scott Cody

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

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

Jacqueline Kauff, Robert Olsen and Thomas Fraker

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

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

The Application and Importance of Disability Policy Research to the Mental Health Field

Crystal R. Blyler

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

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

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

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

Spotlight on Vermont

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

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

Case Study of New Jersey's Express Lane Eligibility Processes

Sheila Hoag and Adam Swinburn

The QMed Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

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

Informal Caregivers Research Project (INCARE): Ecomap Interview Protocol

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

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

The Effects of Teach For America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation (Working Paper)

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

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

Medicaid Enrollment Gaps, 2005-2007

John L. Czajka

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

Design Options Report for a National Survey of Home Health Aides

Richard Strouse, Nancy Clusen, David DesRoches, Rita Stapulonis, John Hall and Brian Roff

MAX and NCHS Survey Linkage, 1999-2009

Julie Sykes and Kerianne Hourihan

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

Kelli Crane, Sarah Palmer and Todd Honeycutt

Spotlight on Express Lane Eligibility (ELE): A Tool to Improve Enrollment and Renewal

Sheila D. Hoag

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

Harold Beebout

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

Steven Glazerman and Allison Seifullah

San Francisco Bay Area: Major Players Drive Regional Network Development

Ha Tu, Len Finocchio, Annie Doubleday and Kristie Liao

National Job Corps Study: Report on the Process Analysis

Terry Johnson, Mark Gritz, Russell Jackson, John Burghardt, Carol Boussy, Jan Leonard and Carlyn Orians

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

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

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

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

Kenneth Kehrer

Methodological Notes Regarding the Impact Analysis

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

Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home

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

KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Executive Summary)

Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Alexandra Resch

Providing Services to Veterans Through the Public Workforce System: Descriptive Findings from the WIA Gold Standard Evaluation, Volume II

Linda Rosenberg, Mark Strayer, Stephanie Boraas, Brittany English and Deanna Khemani

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

Ready To Learn Workshop Participation: Short-Term Impacts

Amy Johnson, Cheri Vogel, Kimberly Boller and Stacey Uhl

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

Lauren E. Ellis and Nancy E. Kass

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

Myles Maxfield, James Ohls and William S. Borden

Estimating the Cost and Utilization of Wraparound Coverage for Employed People with Disabilities

Jack Gettens, Denise Hoffman and Alexis Henry

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

Vivian L. H. Byrd and James Verdier

Challenges and Opportunities in Caring for Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles: The Role of Special Needs Plans

James M. Verdier

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

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

Evaluation of School Nutrition Policy

Philip Gleason