This report discusses findings from the first 18 months of a program implementation evaluation of AIM 4 Teen Moms, a teen pregnancy intervention designed to delay rapid repeat pregnancies among parenting teen mothers in Los Angeles.

In this report, we document our approach to estimating a value-added model of teacher effectiveness in the District of Columbia Public Schools and eligible DC charter schools participating in Race to the Top during the 2013–2014 school year.

This article addresses likely error rates for measuring teacher and school performance in the upper elementary grades using value-added models applied to student test score gain data. Using formulas based on ordinary least squares and empirical Bayes estimators, error rates for comparing a...

In 2007, the federal government funded programs in 30 states and the District of Columbia under the Money Follows the Person demonstration to support the transition of Medicaid beneficiaries in long-term institutional care to home and community-based settings. This report describes variation in...

This brief details factors that help states and communities successfully implement the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) initiative, a program to improve access to disability benefits for people who are homeless.

Reference pricing, or capping payment for a particular medical service, has been gaining interest as a strategy to reduce health care costs. Using private insurance data as a measure, reference pricing applied to a narrow scope of inpatient services was shown to produce limited...

This issue brief summarizes findings from a longer report by Mathematica's disability experts, who used a new indicator to determine how many beneficiaries receiving Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income forgo cash benefits because of work.

A series of nine reports studies access to food stamps, Medicaid, and the State Child Health Insurance Program in a number of states. The documents identify promising practices in enrollment and retention, as well as program improvement opportunities to increase participation.

Presents findings from a study designed to look at how some of the nation's high-performing HMOs have achieved their success. Notes that delivering high-quality care is a driving force for nearly all of the plans studied, as is a culture of respect for clinicians. For printed copies call The...