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Impact Evaluation of Niger's IMAGINE Program

Anca Dumitrescu, Dan Levy, Cara Orfield and Matt Sloan

Case Study of a Program Serving Families Experiencing Homelessness: Solutions for Change

Angela Gaffney and Asaph Glosser

Raising Payment Rates: Initial Effects of BIPA 2000

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

Preventing Unemployment and Disability Benefit Receipt Among People with Mental Illness: Evidence Review and Policy Significance

Bonnie O'Day, Rebecca Kleinman, Benjamin Fischer, Eric Morris and Crystal Blyler

Case Study of Oklahoma's SoonerCare Online Enrollment System

Sheila Hoag and Adam Swinburn

Study of Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program

Kenneth Jackson, Phil Gleason, John Hall and Rhonda Straus

What Does It Mean When a Study Finds No Effects?

Neil Seftor

Implementing Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs): Early Experiences of the Seven Demonstration States

Gretchen Kirby

State and Local Efforts to Strengthen Workforce System Governance and Planning Under WIOA

Samina Sattar, Brittany English and Caleb van Docto

Participants in the Medicaid Buy-In Program, 2000-2004: Characteristics, Earnings, and Medical Expenditures

Su Liu, Henry T. Ireys and Craig Thornton

Work Incentive Simplification Pilot (WISP): Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Panel Regarding the Evaluation Design

David Wittenburg, David R. Mann and David C. Stapleton

Integrating Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) and Employment Services: Design Choices of Two HMRE Grantees

Daniel Friend and Diane Paulsell

Provider Risk Sharing in Medicaid Managed Care Plans

Debra A. Draper and Marsha R. Gold

Pathways-To-Outcomes: How Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Program Activities May Lead to Intended Outcomes

Daniel Friend, Scott Baumgartner, Pamela Holcomb, Elizabeth Clary, Heather Zaveri and Amy Overcash

Premium Hikes and Malpractice Insurance Disrupt Miami Health Care Market

Glen Mays, Sally Trude, Lawrence P. Casalino, Laurie Felland, Gary Claxton, Megan McHugh, Hoangmai Pham and Jessica H. May

Programs Serving Transition-Age Youth: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and 10 Other Countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Lorenzo Moreno, Todd Honeycutt, Stephanie McLeod and Claire Gill

Prospective Analyses of Cytokine Mediation of Sleep and Survival in the Context of Advanced Cancer

Jennifer L. Steel, Lauren Terhorst, Kevin P. Collins, David A. Geller, Yoram Vodovotz, Juliana Kim, Andrew Krane, Michael Antoni, James W. Marsh, Lora E. Burke, Lisa H. Butterfield, Frank J. Penedo, Daniel J. Buysse and Allan Tsung

Supporting Program Progress: Performance Measures, Data System, and Technical Assistance for the 2020 Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grantees

Debra Strong, Mathew Stange, Grace Roemer, Sarah Avellar and Brianna Noonan

Findings from the Evaluation of the Elderly Nutrition Demonstrations

Scott Cody and Jim Ohls

Striking While the Iron is Hot: The Effect of Vocational Rehabilitation Service Wait Times on Employment Outcomes for Applicants Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Todd Honeycutt and David Stapleton

Protocol for Implementing the Core Net Outcomes: Evaluation of the State Partnership Initiative

Nazmul Khan, Roberto Agodini, Nora Paxton and Craig Thornton

Using Data Strategically in Medicaid Managed Care

James Verdier, Rebecca Dodge, Lisa Chimento, Joel Menges and Moira Forbes

The Late Pretest Problem in Randomized Control Trials of Education Interventions (Journal Article)

Peter Z. Schochet

Expanding Individual Health Insurance Coverage: Are High-Risk Pools the Answer?

Deborah Chollet

Access and Outcomes of Elderly Patients Enrolled in Managed Care

Dolores G. Clement, Sheldon M. Retchin, Randall S. Brown and MeriBeth H. Stegall

When a Face Doesn't Launch a Thousand Ships: Including a Personalized Image on a Mail Questionnaire

Kathy Sonnenfeld, Raquel af Ursin, Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Susan Sprachman

An Instrumental Variable Approach for Identification and Estimation with Nonignorable Nonresponse

Sheng Wang, Jun Shao and Jae Kwang Kim

The Promise of Care Coordination: Models That Decrease Hospitalizations and Improve Outcomes for Beneficiaries with Chronic Illnesses

Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

PREP Performance Indicators: Nationwide Implementation of PREP Programs

Lara Hulsey, Susan Zief and Lauren Murphy

Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Program: Methodology Report

Dan Levy and Jim Ohls

Participation in the Medicaid Buy-In Program: A Statistical Profile from Integrated Data

Su Liu and Henry T. Ireys

Evidence Snapshot: Subsidized Employment and Transitional Jobs

Sam Elkin, Jillian Stein and Dana Rotz

Costs of Early Childhood Home Visiting: An Analysis of Programs Implemented in the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment Initiative

Andrew Burwick and Heather Zaveri

How Can We Help? What We Have Learned from Evaluations of Federal Dropout-Prevention Programs

Mark Dynarski and Philip Gleason

Helping States Use Linked Administrative Data and Advanced Analytics to Better Serve Children and Families

Elizabeth Weingensberg

Taking the First Steps: Helping Welfare Recipients Who Get Jobs Keep Them

Anu Rangarajan

Teacher Career Paths, Teacher Quality, and Persistence in the Classroom: Are Public Schools Keeping Their Best?

Dan Goldhaber, Betheny Gross and Daniel Player

The Results Are Only as Good as the Sample: Assessing Three National Physician Sampling Frames

Catherine M. DesRoches, Kirsten A. Barrett, Bonnie E. Harvey, Rachel Kogan, James D. Reschovsky, Bruce E. Landon, Lawrence P. Casalino, Stephen M. Shortell and Eugene C. Rich

Dynamics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation in the Mid-2000s

James Mabli, Stephen Tordella, Laura Castner, Thomas Godfrey and Priscilla Foran

The Healthy Weight Collaborative: Using Learning Collaboratives to Enhance Community-Based Prevention Initiatives Addressing Childhood Obesity

Margaret B. Hargreaves, Todd Honeycutt, Cara Orfield, Michaela Vine, Charlotte Cabili, Michaella Morzuch, Sylvia K. Fisher and Ronette Briefel

Building Equity by Supporting the Whole Student: Findings from Case Studies of Two Colleges in the Working Students Success Network

Ann E. Person, Daisy Gonzalez, Gina Lucchesi, Margaret Sullivan, Anne Price and Jhumpa Bhattacharya

The Second Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification Study (APEC II): Estimating and Validating Statistical Models for Updating Estimates of Improper Payments in the NSLP and SBP

April Yanyuan Wu and Quinn Moore

Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability (Professional Paper)

Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

Spotlight on Maryland

Grace Anglin and Adam Swinburn

A Day at the Museum: The Impact of Field Trips on Middle School Science Achievement

Emilyn Ruble Whitesell

Evidence-Based Treatment for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder in State Medicaid Programs

Allison Barrett, Jonathan Brown, Emily Caffery, Kerianne Hourihan and Henry Ireys

Functional Improvement Among Short-Stay Nursing Home Residents in the MDS 3.0

Andrea Wysocki, Kali S. Thomas and Vincent Mor

Providing Financial Support for Children: Views and Experiences of Low-Income Fathers in the PACT Evaluation

Elizabeth Clary, Pamela Holcomb, Robin Dion and Kathryn Edin

The Demand for Dialysis Care in Vermont: 2005-2014

Robert Schmitz, So Sasigant Limpa-Amara and Amy O'Sullivan

Data Use in LAUP: An Overview

Emily Moiduddin and Celina Kamler

Health Equity Strategies from the Accountable Health Communities Model

Rishi Manchanda, Sadena Thevarajah, Sara Bader, Alexis Taylor, Roza Do, Mario Gruszczynski, Kelsey Cowen and Risa Nakajima

The Evaluation of the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program, Volume 1: Design Report

Mark Dynarski, Alan Hershey, Rebecca Maynard and Nancy Adelman

Emerging Findings from the 2012-2017 National Cross-Site Evaluation of the Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) Program (Summary)

Russell Cole and Debra Strong

Immigrants and Retirement Resources

Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt

Institutional Frameworks for the Evaluation of Public Policies

Lorenzo Moreno

Medication Discontinuation and Reinitiation Among Medicare Part D Beneficiaries Taking Costly Medications

Margaret S. Colby, Dominick Esposito, Seth Goldfarb, Daniel E. Ball, Vivian Herrera, Leslie J. Conwell, Susan B. Garavaglia, Eric S. Meadows and Martin D. Marciniak

Considerations for Implementing a Child Assessment in a Field Survey Research Project

Susan Sprachman, Welmoet van Kammen and Margo Salem

Using Vouchers in Government Training Programs: Findings from the Individual Training Account (ITA) Experiment

Sheena McConnell, Irma Perez-Johnson and Paul Decker

Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Factsheet: Performance Improvement Plans

Mathematica

Making the Most of Data

Daniel Friend and Karen Needels

Partnerships to Support Evidence-Based Home Visitation

Russell Cole

Federal Financial Benefits and Health Care Coverage for Veterans with Disabilities

Lucy Miller and John Kregel

SNPs and States: Overcoming the Challenges in Integrating Medicare and Medicaid Benefits

James M. Verdier

The Early Experience of the Mercy Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program

Sherry Aliotta, Karen Sautter and Jennifer Schore

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative: Appendix to the Third Annual Report

Deborah Peikes, Grace Anglin, Erin Fries Taylor, Stacy Dale, Ann O'Malley, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kaylyn Swankoski, Lara Converse, Rosalind Keith, Mariel Finucane, Jesse Crosson, Anne Mutti, Thomas Grannemann, Aparajita Zutshi and Randall Brown

The EUC08 Program in Theoretical and Historical Perspective

Walter Nicholson and Karen Needels

Strategies to Compare Access to Care Among Medicaid Beneficiaries Versus other Populations

Joe Zickafoose, Allison Dodd and Deborah Chollet

Addressing Substance Abuse Problems Among TANF Recipients: A Guide for Program Administrators

Gretchen Kirby and Jacquelyn Anderson

Frequently Asked Questions: Reporting Implementation Findings

Susan Zief, Juliette Henke and Heather Zaveri

Social Enterprise Strengths and Challenges (In Focus Brief)

Various Authors

Evaluation of the Effect of the Older Americans Act Title III-C Nutrition Services Program on Participants' Food Security, Socialization, and Diet Quality

James Mabli, Elizabeth Gearan, Rhoda Cohen, Katherine Niland, Nicholas Redel, Erin Panzarella and Barbara Carlson

Building Strong Families: Guidelines for Developing Programs

Alan M. Hershey, Barbara Devaney, M. Robin Dion and Sheena McConnell

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Building Community Capacity and Resilience for Prevention and Mitigation (In Focus Brief)

Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz

Advanced Practice Clinicians and Physicians in Primary Care: Still More Questions than Answers

Eugene C. Rich

Measuring the Quality of Program Environments in Head Start and Other Early Childhood Programs: A Review and Recommendations for Future Research

John M. Love, Alicia Meckstroth and Susan Sprachman

WIOA Implementation Study: Technical Appendix

Samina Sattar, Brittany English and Grace Roemer

Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Public Investments in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Conceptual Framework and Lessons Learned

Eugene C. Rich, Dominick Esposito, Laura D. Kimmey, Christal Stone Valenzano and Pierre L. Yong

National Evaluation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Privacy Act Statement

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Comparing the Cost of Care Provided to Medicare Beneficiaries Assigned to Primary Care Nurse Practitioners and Physicians

Jennifer Perloff, Catherine M. DesRoches and Peter Buerhaus

Access to Care in Medicare HMOs, 1996

Lyle Nelson, Randall Brown, Marsha Gold, Anne Ciemnecki and Elizabeth Docteur

Enhanced Intake for All American Job Center Customers: A Functionally-Aligned Model

Ronald D'Amico

Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success

Eric Bettinger, Lindsay Fox, Susanna Loeb and Eric S. Taylor

Dynamics of the Uninsured: Measurement Issues and Policy Implications

John L. Czajka

On Equal Footing: The Importance of Baseline Equivalence in Measuring Program Effectiveness

Sarah A. Avellar and Jaime Thomas

Efficacy of Schoolwide Programs to Promote Social and Character Development and Reduce Problem Behavior in Elementary School Children

Allen Ruby Emily Doolittle (ies), Karen Needels, John A. Burghardt, Laura M. Kalb, Heather Koball, Peter Z. Schochet and Victor Battistich

Diet Quality of American School Children by National School Lunch Program Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2010 (Summary)

Elizabeth Condon, Susan Drilea, Carolyn Lichtenstein, James Mabli, Emily Madden and Katherine Niland

A Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Supported Work Experiment

Peter Kemper, David A. Long and Craig Thornton

Final Report to Congress on the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) Demonstration, Phases I and II

Lorenzo Moreno, Rachel Shapiro, Stacy B. Dale, Leslie Foster and Arnold Chen

Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Demonstration

Walter Corson, Paul Decker, Shari Miller Dunstan and Stuart Kerachsky

Executive Summary of the Seventh Ticket to Work Evaluation Report

Gina Livermore, Arif Mamun, Jody Schimmel and Sarah Prenovitz

Letter to Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building

Paul Decker

Aligning Validation of Wastewater Testing for SARS-CoV-2 to Policy Needs

Aparna Keshaviah

Gender Gaps in College and High School Graduation by Race, Combining Public and Private Schools

Duncan Chaplin and Daniel Klasik

A Systematic Review of Vertical Integration and Quality of Care, Efficiency, and Patient-Centered Outcomes

Rachel M. Machta, Kristin A. Maurer, David J. Jones, Michael F. Furukawa and Eugene C. Rich

National Beneficiary Survey Round 4, (Volume 1 of 3): Editing, Coding, Imputation, and Weighting Procedures

Eric Grau, Kirsten Barrett, Debra Wright, Yuhong Zheng, Barbara Carlson, Frank Potter and Sara Skidmore

ELEVATE: Implementation of a Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Program by a Statewide Cooperative Extension Service

Julia Alamillo, Diane Paulsell and Daniel Friend

Reaching the Working Poor and Poor Elderly: Focus Group Summaries

Michael Ponza, Sheena McConnell and Juanita Lucas-McLean

Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction on Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas

Leslie Foster, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Three Years (Executive Summary)

Alison Wellington, Hanley Chiang, Kristin Hallgren, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann and Paul Burkander

Summary of Literature Review: Challenges and Strategies Used to Operate Unemployment Insurance Programs During the Great Recession

Joanne Lee and Karen Needels