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Baseline Statistics for Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community

Scott Cody, Alison Wellington, Margaret Sullivan, Virginia Knechtel and Duncan Chaplin

Expanding COVID-19 Surveillance Through Wastewater Testing

Aparna Keshaviah and John Stern

Moving to Independent Choices: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas

Barbara Phillips and Barbara Schneider

Generalized Variance Function Methodology for ACNielsen's Homescan Household Panel Survey

Donsig Jang, Joseph K. Garrett, Frank W. Piotrowski and William B. Owens

After the "Doc Fix": Implications of Medicare Physician Payment Reform for Academic Medicine

Eugene C. Rich and James D. Reschovsky

Medicaid Analytic eXtract 2008 Encounter Data Chartbook Appendix Tables

Rosemary Borck, Ashley Zlatinov and Susan Williams

When Elementary Schools Stay Open Late: Results from The National Evaluation of the 21st-Century Community Learning Centers Program

Susanne James-Burdumy, Mark Dynarski and John Deke

The State of Care Coordination Under Medicaid Managed Care: Three States' Experiences Serving Children with Mental Illness

Sheila D. Hoag and Nancy Archibald

Impacts of a Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement System on Child Care Quality

Kimberly Boller, Diane Paulsell, Patricia Del Grosso, Randall Blair, Eric Lundquist, Danielle Z. Kassow, Rachel Kim and Abbie Raikes

Healthcare Price Transparency: Policy Approaches and Estimated Impacts on Spending

Chapin White, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ha T. Tu, James D. Reschovsky, Joseph M. Smith and Kristie Liao

Evaluating PACE: A Review of the Literature

Arkadipta Ghosh, Cara Orfield and Robert Schmitz

An Ethnographic Analysis of Zero-Income Households in the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Nancy Wemmerus and Kristin Porter

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Primary Care Quality Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2012

Ruwei Hu, Leiyu Shi, Hailun Liang, Geraldine Pierre Haile and Lee De-Chih

Using National Survey Data to Analyze Children's Health Insurance Coverage: An Assessment of Issues

John L. Czajka and Kimball Lewis

Making Sense of the Change in How Medicare Advantage Plans are Paid

Marsha Gold

Improving the School Attendance of New Jersey's Youngest Learners: Attendance in Preschool and Kindergarten Spells Future Success!

Various Authors

Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study: What Foods are Infants and Toddlers Eating?

Mary Kay Fox, Susan Pac, Barbara Devaney and Linda Jankowski

Food Stamp Time Limits: A Burdensome Policy that Weakens the Safety Net

Sheena McConnell, John L. Czajka, Scott Cody and Nuria Rodriguez

Long-Term Poverty and Disability Among Working-Age Adults

Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore

Design and Analysis of Unit Cost Estimation Studies: How Many Hospital Diagnoses? How Many Countries?

Henry A. Glick, Sean Orzol, Joseph F. Tooley, Daniel Polsky and Josephine O. Mauskopf

Improving the Quality of Behavioral Health Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries (In Focus Brief)

Allison Siegwarth

Scaling an Intervention: Recommendations and Resources

Karen Needels, Scott Richman, Nan Maxwell and Mary Anne Anderson

PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Toolkit: Appendix Materials

Dominick Esposito, Jessica Heeringa, Katharine Bradley, Sarah Croake and Laura Kimmey

How Do Hired Workers Fare Under Consumer-Directed Personal Care?

Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

WIC-Medicaid II Feasibility Study: Final Report

Keith Kranker, Mary Kay Fox and Pia Caronongan

Reconciling Findings on the Employment Effect of Disability Insurance

John Bound, Stephan Lindner and Timothy Waldmann

Data Collection Instruments for the Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment Cross-Site Evaluation

Kimberly Boller, Deborah Daro, Debra Strong, Heather Zaveri, Diane Paulsell, Margaret Hargreaves, Russell Cole, Patricia Del Grosso, Cheri Vogel, Andrew Burwick, Cassandra Meagher, Kirsten Barrett and Brandon Coffee-Borden

How Will the ACA Affect Community Rehabilitation Programs?

Deborah Chollet and Jill Bernstein

A Scan of Key Trends in the Labor Market and Workforce Development System

Melissa Mack and Kate Dunham

Medicare Therapeutic Shoes Demonstration: Was the Demonstration Cost-Effective? Final Comprehensive Report: Volume I

Judith Wooldridge, Jeanette Bergeron, Lorenzo Moreno and Craig Thornton

Crisis Services and the Behavioral Health Workforce

Stefanie Pietras and Allison Wishon Siegwarth

Evaluation Design for the Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Demonstration

Jillian Berk, Ankita Patnaik, Rosalind Keith, Tiffany Olszuk, David Wittenburg, Yonatan Ben-Shalom and Janine Bologna

PROMISE Recruitment, Enrollment, and Random Assignment Procedures Manual

AnnaMaria McCutcheon, Rebekah Selekman and Thomas Fraker

Laws Requiring Parental Involvement to Obtain Abortion and Prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Minors

Silvie Colman, Ted Joyce and Thomas Dee

Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages: Project Overview

Julia Lyskawa, Nickie Fung and Rebekka Nickman

Stated Briefly: Changes in Financial Aid and Student Enrollment at Historically Black Colleges and Universities after the Tightening of PLUS Credit Standards

Matthew Johnson, Julie Bruch and Brian Gill

Linking Learning to Careers Demonstration: Impacts 24 Months After Enrollment

Purvi Sevak, Kathleen Feeney, Todd Honeycutt and Emily Peterson

Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Workers with Disabilities, 2001–2017

Anna Hill and Jody Schimmel Hyde

Replicating Experimental Impact Estimates with Nonexperimental Methods in the Context of Control Crossover

Brian Gill, Joshua Furgeson, Hanley S. Chiang, Bing-Ru Teh, Joshua Haimson and Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz

Health System Integration with Physician Specialties Varies Across Markets and System Types

Rachel Machta, James D. Reschovsky, David Jones, Laura Kimmey, Michael F. Furukawa and Eugene Rich

Using a "Road Test" to Improve Human Services Programs: A Primer

Jonathan McCay, Michelle Derr and Ann Person

Types and Amounts of Complementary Foods and Beverages Consumed and Growth, Size, and Body Composition: A Systematic Review

Laural K. English, Julie E. Obbagy, Yat Ping Wong, Nancy F. Butte, Kathryn G. Dewey, Mary Kay Fox, Frank R. Greer, Nancy F. Krebs, Kelley S. Scanlon and Eve E. Stoody

Promising Practices from Early Experiences with Developing Evidence-Building and Evaluation Plans (Summary Report)

Dayna Gallagher, Daniel Finkelstein and Jessica McNab

Behavioral Interventions to Help Workers Keep Their Jobs After an Injury or Illness (Policy Brief)

Kara Contreary and Irma Perez-Johnson

E. D. TABS Academic Libraries: 1998

Margaret W. Cahalan and Natalie Justh

National Beneficiary Survey Round 5 Public Use Data File

Charles Bush, Ryan Callahan and Jason Markesich

Stroke, 1992-2001: Appendix B: Detailed Tables and Appendix C: ICD9 Codes for Stroke Cohorts

Christina Park (anasys and Inc.)

How Do Staffing Levels Influence the Performance of Public Health Services? Findings from the National Public Health Performance Standards Program

Glen P. Mays, Megan McHugh, Kyumin Shim, Natalie Perry, Maureen Lichtveld, Joan Cioffi, Paul Halverson, Dennis Lenaway and Ramal Moonesinghe

Effect of a Sanitation Intervention on Soil-Transmitted Helminth Prevalence and Concentration in Household Soil: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial and Risk Factor Analysis

Lauren Steinbaum, John Mboya, Ryan Mahoney, Sammy M. Njenga, Clair Null and Amy J. Pickering

Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Return-to-Work Programs (Issue Brief)

Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Reliability for Peer Grouping

Eric Schone

Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Rebecca Maynard and Amy Johnson

Smarter, Better, Faster: The Potential for Predictive Analytics and Rapid-Cycle Evaluation to Improve Program Development and Outcomes

Scott Cody and Andrew Asher

Health Coverage for Families Leaving Welfare

Marilyn Ellwood

Physicians' Experiences Using Commercial E-Prescribing Systems

Joy M. Grossman, Anneliese Gerland, Marie C/ Reed and Cheryl Fahlman

Achieving Higher TANF Work Participation Rates: Case Studies from Maryland and Utah

Jacqueline Kauff and Michelle K. Derr

Assessing the Effectiveness of Education Interventions: Issues and Recommendations for the Title I Evaluation

Steven Glazerman and David Myers

Spotlight on New Mexico

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

Targeting Special Populations in the CKF Program: Lessons from Site Visits to Ten States

Embry Howell and Brigette Courtot

State Medicaid Prescription Drug Expenditures for Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles: Estimates of Medicaid Savings and Federal Expenditures Resulting from Expanded Medicare Prescription Coverage

Stacy Berg Dale and James M. Verdier

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement? Evidence from a National Randomized Study

Melissa A. Clark, Philip Gleason, Christina Clark Tuttle and Marsha K. Silverberg

Relationship Skills Education and Child Support: Evidence from a Program Partnership in Texas

Robert Santillano and Robert G. Wood

Conceptual Models for Adulthood Preparation Subjects within the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)

Elizabeth Clary, Heather Zaveri, Kristin Moore, Mindy Scott, Christopher Jones, Katie Eddins, Katie Adamek, Deana Around Him, Monica Arkin and Isabel Griffith

Medicaid Costs Under Consumer Direction for Florida Children with Developmental Disabilities

Stacy Dale, Randall Brown and Barbara Phillips

SCHIP at 10: A Synthesis of the Evidence on Substitution of SCHIP for Other Coverage

So Limpa-Amara, Angela Merrill and Margo Rosenbach

2006 Medicare Advantage Benefits and Premiums

Marsha Gold, Maria Cupples Hudson and Sarah Davis

Medicare's 2006 Takeover of Prescription Drug Coverage for Dual Eligibles in Nursing Facilities: Issues and Concerns

Jim Verdier

Impact of Early Intervention Programs for Persons with Mental Health Conditions: Evidence from the National DMIE Evaluation

Boyd Gilman, Gilbert Gimm, Henry Ireys, Noelle Denny-Brown and Sarah Croake

Participation of People with Mental Health Disorders in Ticket Act Programs

Craig Thornton

Evaluation of the Fruit Tree Productivity Project in Morocco: Final Report on Irrigation Activities

Evan Borkum, Anitha Sivasankaran, Elena Moroz and Matt Sloan

Continued Development of the Medicaid Analytic Extract Enrollee Master (MAXEM) File

John L. Czajka and Shinu Verghese

The Rationale and Potential Consequences of the Revised WIC Food Packages

Barbara Devaney

Does the Missouri Teacher Career Ladder Program Raise Student Achievement?

Kevin Booker and Steven Glazerman

Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Configurational Comparative Method to Identify Multiple Pathways to Improve Patient-Centered Medical Home Models (Issue Brief)

Marcus Thygeson, Deborah Peikes and Aparajita Zutshi

Evaluation of Health Care Innovation Awards (HCIA): Primary Care Redesign Programs, Second Annual Report, Volume II: Individual Program Summaries

Lorenzo Moreno, Boyd Gilman, Greg Peterson, Catherine DesRoches, Sheila Hoag, Linda Barterian, Laura Blue, Katharine Bradley, Emily Ehrlich, Kristin Geonnotti, Lauren Hula, Keith Kranker, Rumin Sarwar, Rachel Shapiro, KeriAnn Wells, Joseph Zickafoose, Sandi Nelson, Kate Stewart and Frank Yoon

MCC Burkina Faso—Agriculture Development Project

Christopher Ksoll, Elena Moroz, Abbie Turiansky, Anthony D'Agostino, Yiriyibin Bambio, Daniel Roberge and Randall Blair

Changing to Consumer-Directed Care: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Florida

Barbara Phillips and Barbara Schneider

Evaluation of the Benin Power Compact’s Electricity Generation and Distribution Projects: Baseline Report

Sarah Hughes, Christopher Ksoll, Kristine Bos, Anthony Harris, Serge Kennely Wongla, Dara Bernstein, Cullen Seaton and Galina Lapadatova

Bias from Excluding Households Without Telephones in Random Digit Dialing Surveys: Results of Two Surveys

John Hall, Genevieve Kenney, Gary Shapiro and Ismaei Flores-Cervantes

Hospital Responses to Public Reporting of Quality Data to CMS: 2005 Survey of Hospitals

Mary Laschober, Myles Maxfield, Meredith Lee, Martha Kovac, Frank Potter and Suzanne Felt-Lisk

TANF Recipients as Potential Long-Term Care Workers: An Assessment of the Prospects in the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, and South Carolina

Gretchen Kirby, LaDonna Pavetti, Jeffrey Max and Jesse Gregory

Medicare Advantage 2015 Data Spotlight: Overview of Plan Changes

Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman and Marsha Gold

SCHIP Children: How Long Do They Stay and Where Do They Go?

Christopher Trenholm, James Mabli and Ander Wilson

Race to the Top: Implementation and Relationship to Student Outcomes

Lisa Dragoset, Jaime Thomas, Mariesa Herrmann, John Deke, Susanne James-Burdumy, Cheryl Graczewski, Andrea Boyle, Courtney Tanenbaum, Jessica Giffin and Rachel Upton

Sustaining Programs: Lessons Learned from Former Federal Grantees

Alexandra Warner, Nicole Bennett, Subuhi Asheer, Julia Alamillo, Betsy Keating and Jean Knab

Pre-Paid Vs. Promised Incentives: Which Works Better for a Telephone Survey of Low-Income Respondents?

Martha D. Kovac and Jason Markesich

Convergence and Dissonance: Evolution In Private-Sector Approaches to Disease Management and Care Coordination

Glen P. Mays, Melanie Au and Gary Claxton

System Implementation for a Blaise Multimode Web, CATI, and Paper Survey

Leonard Hart, Amanda Foster-Sardenberg and Yuki Okada

A National Survey of Obesity Prevention Practices in Head Start

Robert C. Whitaker, Rachel A. Gooze, Cayce C. Hughes and Daniel M. Finkelstein

QRS Profile: Maryland Child Care Tiered Reimbursement System

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Implementing Welfare Reform in Nebraska: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Opportunities for Improvement

Alicia Meckstroth, LaDonna Pavetti and Michelle K. Derr

Growing the American Workforce: Bolstering Participation is Critical for U.S. Competitiveness and Economic Strength

Paul Decker and Howard Fluhr (eds.)

Reliability of a Structured Assessment for Nonclinicians to Detect Delirium Among New Admissions to Postacute Care

Samuel E. Simon, Margaret A. Bergmann, Richard N. Jones, Katherine M. Murphy, E. John Orav and Edward R. Marcantonio

Building Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Risk-Adjustment Models: State Experiences Using Functional Data

Maria Dominiak and Alex Bohl

MCC Indonesia Nutrition Project Impact Evaluation Baseline Report

Clair Null, Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen, William Leith, Evan Borkum, Jeremy Brecher-Haimson, Anna Gage, Matt Peckarsky and Anu Rangarajan

Housing for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Robin Dion, Amy Dworsky, Jackie Kauff and Rebecca Kleinman

Building, Evaluating, and Using an Evidence Base to Inform the HHS Teenage Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program

Brian Goesling

Ewing Marion Kauffman School Evaluation Impact Report Year 5

Matthew Johnson, Alicia Demers, Cleo Jacobs Johnson and Claudia Gentile

Governing the Family Through Education: A Genealogy on the Home/School Relation

Kirsten Kainz and Nikki L. Aikens

Preparing Nebraskas Welfare Clients for Work and Addressing their Obstacles

Alicia Meckstroth, Michelle Derr, Michael Ponza, Venita Jethwani and Jennifer Faerber