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

M. Robin Dion and Sarah A. Avellar

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

Ancillary Services to Support Welfare-to-Work

Amy Johnson and Alicia Meckstroth

Crime and Parenthood: Factors Affecting the Outcomes of Adolescents With and Without Disabilities

Todd C. Honeycutt and David R. Mann

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

Can a Redesigned Child Support System Do Better?

Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer and Robert G. Wood

MAX and NCHS Survey Linkage, 1999-2009

Julie Sykes and Kerianne Hourihan

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

Kate Place and Philip Gleason

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

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

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

Steven Glazerman

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

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

Kenneth Kehrer

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

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Shamama Siddiqui

State at a Glance: Alaska

Grace Anglin, Ian Hill, Ashley Palmer, Margo Wilkinson and Arnav Shah

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

Spotlight on Vermont

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

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

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

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

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

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

Food Stamp Program Operations Study: Synthesis Report

Ruy A. Teixeira and William L. Hamilton

Type of Health Insurance and the Substance Abuse Treatment Gap

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

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

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

Jacqueline Kauff, Robert Olsen and Thomas Fraker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Status of Families on Child-Only TANF Cases

Robert G. Wood and Debra A. Strong

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

Eric Isenberg, Bing-ru Teh and Elias Walsh

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

James Mabli

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

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

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

Lein F. Han and Myles Maxfield

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 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

Case-Mix Analysis Using Demonstration Data: Home Health Prospective Payment Demonstration

Barbara R. Phillips, Randall S. Brown, Jennifer L. Schore, Amy C. Klein, Peter Z. Schochet, Jerrold W. Hill and Dexter O. Chu

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

Sources of Variation in State-Level Food Stamp Participation Rates

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

Movement of Children Between Medicaid and CHIP, 2005-2007

John L. Czajka

Insights from Federal Evaluation Technical Assistance Liaisons on the Partnerships Supporting Local Evaluations

Lindsay Cattell and Cay Bradley

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

Daniel Friend, Heather Zaveri and Kathleen Feeney

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

Anna Hill and JudyAnn Bigby

Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 8 Impacts

Matthew Johnson and Daniel Thal

Why Do TRICARE Beneficiaries Miss Medical Appointments?

Breanna Wakar, Amy Gehrke and Nancy Clusen

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

Melanie Au, Erin Fries Taylor and Marsha Gold

Using Hospital Data to Predict Child Maltreatment Risk

Emily Putnam-Hornstein, John Prindle, Rebecca Rebbe, Jeannie Huang, Cynthia Kuelbs, Sarah Vega and Regan Foust

Frequently Asked Questions About the Implications of Clustering in Clustered Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)

John Deke

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 Effectiveness and Effects of Alcohol Regulation: Evidence from India

Dara Lee Luca, Emily Owens and Gunjan Sharma

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 Evaluations of the Medical Home

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

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

Paul Decker

An Assessment of Computer Matching in the Food Stamp Program Vol. III: Appendix Tables

William S. Borden and Robbi L. Ruben-Urm

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

Winnie Wang and Marsha Gold

Reaching Those in Need: Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2012

Karen E. Cunnyngham

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

Robert Olsen and Dan Levy

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

Informal Caregivers Research Project (INCARE): Ecomap Interview Protocol

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

A Portrait of Head Start Programs: Findings from FACES 2009

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

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

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

Dallas Dotter, Duncan Chaplin and Maria Bartlett

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

Impact of Market Volatility on Medicare Beneficiaries

Beth Stevens and Cheryl Young

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

Kevin Booker, Tim Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer

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

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

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

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

Lauren E. Ellis and Nancy E. Kass

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

Which Medicaid Buy-In Participants Use SSA Work Supports?

Denise Hoffman and Jody Schimmel

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

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

Christopher Trenholm and Bridget Lavin

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

Pamela Holcomb, Jessica Ziegler and Elizabeth Laird

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

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

Landscape Analysis of Non-Cognitive Measures

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

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

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

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

Michelle Herman Soper and Rivka Weiser

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

National Survey of SSI Children and Families Sample Design

Frank Potter, Michael Sinclair and Bidisha Ghosh

Design for the Evaluation of Early Elementary School Mathematics Curricula

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

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

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

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

Christina Clark Tuttle, Philip Gleason and Melissa Clark

Scheduler Issues in the Transition to Blaise

Leonard Hart

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

Harold Beebout

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2002

Randy Rosso and Melissa Faux

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

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

Robert G. Wood, Sarah Avellar and Brian Goesling

Income and Poverty in 2002: The View from Five Surveys

John L. Czajka

Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers in Early Head Start

Diane Paulsell, Debra Mekos, Patricia Del Grosso, Patti Banghart and Renée Nogales

The Influence of Curriculum Material Design on Opportunities for Student Learning

Janine T. Remillard, Barbara Harris and Roberto Agodini

Evaluating System Change: A Planning Guide

Margaret B. Hargreaves

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

Steven Glazerman and Allison Seifullah

The Negative Income Tax Experiment in New Jersey: General Discussion

David Kershaw

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

Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement at KIPP Middle Schools (Presentation)

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill and Philip Gleason