Out and About

2013 Conferences and Meetings Presentations

October

American Evaluation Association Annual Meeting—Evaluation Practice in the Early 21st Century—October 17-19

Disability Research Consortium Annual Meeting Forum/Webinar—Disability Research and Policy: New Evidence and Promising Ideas—Washington, DC—October 15-16, 9:45 a.m.-2:45 p.m. (ET)

International Conference on Health Policy Statistics—Statistically Engaged Health Care Policy—Chicago, IL—October 9-11
Dmitriy Poznyak: "Variation in Quality by Hospital Characteristics and the Implications for Risk-Adjustment" Co-authors: Alex Bohl, David Jones, Jessica Ross, Eric Schone, Frank Yoon, and Joe Zickafoose [Abstract]
Frank Yoon, Organizer: Innovative Designs for Evaluating Impacts of Health System Changes on Mental Health Treatment and Care
Jelena Zurovac: "Using Orthogonal Designs to Study Care Coordination Delivery to Individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness" Co-author: Randall Brown [Abstract]
Frank Yoon: "Designing a Multilevel Evaluation of Health Care Systems: The Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Services Demonstration" Co-authors: Priyanka Anand, Melissa Azur, and Crystal Blyler [Abstract]
Frank Yoon, Chair: Comparative Effectiveness Research: Using Evidence to Engage and Impact

September

Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness—Interdisciplinary Synthesis in Advancing Education Science—Washington, DC—September 26-28
Peter Schochet: "Partially Nested Designs in RCT: Theory and Practice" [Abstract]
Jill Constantine, Annalisa Mastri, and Sarah Avellar, Panelists: Systematic Reviews: Growing Up to Meet Practitioner, Policymaker, and Researcher Needs

Annual Summit on Vocational Rehabilitation Program Evaluation and Quality Assurance—Providence, RI—September 16-17
David Wittenburg: "Creativity, Measurement, and Knowledge Dissemination: Addressing Challenges to Implementing Evidence Based Practices"

Mathematica Policy Research and the Institute on Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education—Addressing Teacher Shortages in Disadvantaged Schools: Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification and Student Achievement—Issue Forum/Webinar—September 12
Melissa Clark, Jill Constantine, and Others, Speakers

United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training International Conference on Education and Development—Education and Development Post 2015: Reflecting, Reviewing, and Re-Visioning—Oxford, United Kingdom—September 10-12
Amanda Beatty and Others: "From Schooling Goals to Learning Goals: How Fast can Student Learning Improve?"
Amanda Beatty, Chair: How have the MDGS and EFA Goals Impacted on Learning?
Matt Sloan and Others: "Learning Across Borders: The Collaborative Creation of a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Framework for The MasterCard Foundation"

Northeast SAS Users Group Conference—Burlington, VT—September 8-11
Nancy Cole and Cassandra Baxter: "Using the SAS^® Output Delivery System Report Writing Interface to
Produce Codebooks for Survey Data"

August

National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics—Chicago, IL—August 18-21

University of Pennsylvania Workshop—Teaching Cases: Nuts and Bolts of Randomized Controlled Trials in Education—Philadelphia, PA—August 13-14
Allen Schirm, Speaker: National Program Evaluation: Upward Bound

Joint Statistical Meetings—Celebrating the International Year of Statistics—Montréal, Québec, Canada—August 3-8

Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Pre-Conference Workshop—The Debut of USDA's New National Food Study to Support Research on Health and Obesity, Hunger, and Nutrition Assistance Policy—Washington, DC—August 3
Nicholas Redel and Others: "What Information Did the Survey Collect?"
John Hall and Nancy Cole: "Sampling Design and Implementation"
John Hall: "Data Quality: Survey Response Rates and the Non-Response Bias Study"
Nancy Cole: "Data Quality: Characteristics of Households and Food Acquisitions"

July

DC-American Association for Public Opinion Research & Washington Statistical Society Summer Conference—Washington, DC—July 30-31
Donsig Jang, Chair: Accessing and Using Records
Dmitriy Poznyak and Others: "Can We Have Confidence in Consumer Confidence? Assessing the Temporal Comparability of the Consumer Sentiment Index"

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—The State of Risk Adjustment and Potential Improvements—Webinar—July 25
Eric Schone and Randall Brown, Speakers

Commission on Long-Term Care Public Hearing—Populations in Need of LTSS and Service Delivery Issues—Washington, DC—July 17
Randall Brown: "Care Coordination Programs for Improving Outcomes for High-Need Beneficiaries: What's the Evidence?"

World Congress Annual Leadership Summit on Medicaid—Uncovering Medicaid Solutions in a Time of Expansion—Arlington, VA—July 15-17
James Verdier, Moderator: State Medicaid Directors Perspective on Medicaid Expansion and the Future of State Medicaid Programs
James Verdier, Panelist: Examining the Implementation of Dual Eligibles Coordinated Care Demonstrations

Health Affairs Briefing—Health Information Technology Adoption and Use—Washington, DC—July 9
Catherine DesRoches: "Adoption of Electronic Health Records Grows Rapidly, But Fewer Than Half of US Hospitals Had at Least a Basic System in 2012"

June

Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Research Workshop—Current Research on the Low-Income Population—Madison, WI—June 24-27
David Stapleton: "Why U.S. Disability Policy Reform is Stymied and How Can We Move Forward"

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting—Baltimore, MD—June 22-25

Urban Institute Forum—Social Security Disability Insurance: Challenges and Opportunities—Washington, DC—June 21
Gina Livermore, Panelist

Center on Health Care Effectiveness Forum/Webinar—Using Performance Measures to Promote Evidence-Based Health Care: Challenges and Opportunities—Washington, DC—June 20
Eugene Rich, Timothy Christian, Thomas Croghan, Myles Maxfield, and Others, Speakers

Accountable Care Organization Summit—Washington, DC—June 12-14
James Verdier, Panelist: Integrating Care for Dual Eligibles

Institute of Medicine Workshop—Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults—Washington, DC—June 12
David Stapleton: "Innovations in Public Income Support Programs"

Center for Studying Disability Policy Forum/Webinar—New Data on Efforts to Reduce Hospitalization and Nursing Home Care Among High-Risk Medicaid Beneficiaries—Washington, DC—June 6
Angela Gerolamo, Jung Kim, Greg Peterson, and Others, Speakers

May

Jacobs Foundation—Good Enough: When is Evidence-Based Intervention Ready for Dissemination?—Zürich, Switzerland—May 30-June 1
Jill Constantine: "Systematic Reviews as a Tool in Evidence-Based Decision Making: Improving Research and Informing Practice"

ACF/OPRE Welfare Research & Evaluation Conference—Washington, DC—May 29-31

National Medicaid Congress—The Path to 2014 Implementation—Arlington, VA—May 29-31
James Verdier, Speaker: Dual Eligibles Mini Summit Welcome and Overview
James Verdier and Others: "New State Care Coordination Initiatives for Duals"
James Verdier, Maggie Colby, and Others: "Dual Eligible Care in a SNP vs. FFS: Findings from a Natural Arizona Experiment"

The Commonwealth Fund and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement—The Use and Relevance of Hospital Readmission Measures for Improvement—New York, NY—May 28
Craig Schneider, Invited Speaker

Annual Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grantee Conference—Ready, Set, Sustain: Continuing Our Success—National Harbor, MD—May 20-22
Jean Knab: "Overview of the Evidence Standards from the Pregnancy Prevention Research Evidence Review (PPRER)"

National Health Policy Forum—Getting the Price Right: Ensuring Access and Promoting Efficiency in Medicare Advantage—Washington, DC—May 17
Marsha Gold, Speaker

National Academy of Sciences—Public Access to Federally-Supported Research and Development Data and Publications: Two Planning Meetings—Washington, DC—May 17
Clemencia Cosentino, Speaker

American Association for Public Opinion Research—Asking Critical Questions: Toward a Sustainable Future for Public Opinion and Social Research—Boston, MA—May 16-19

Health Resources and Services Administration TARGET Center—Engaging Hard-to-Reach Populations Series: Empowering the Patient—Webinar—May 15
Margaret Hargreaves, Speaker

Center on Health Care Effectiveness Forum/Webinar—Expanding the Toolbox: Using Methodological Approaches from Varied Disciplines for Health Services Research—Washington, DC—May 2
Deborah Peikes, Kristin Geonnotti, Aparajita Zutshi, and Others, Speakers

April

Head Start National Birth to Five Leadership Institute—Data Driven Leadership: Your Role in School Readiness—National Harbor, MD—April 28-30
Louisa Tarullo, Nikki Aikens, Cheri Vogel, and Kimberly Boller: "Learning from National Research: Informing and Refining Practice in Head Start and Early Head Start Programs"

American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting—Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy, and Praxis—San Francisco, CA—April 27-May 1

American Society for Nutrition Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting in Conjunction with Experimental Biology—Boston, MA—April 20-24
Mary Kay Crepinsek, Elizabeth Condon, Mary Kay Fox, and Others: "Contribution of School Lunches to USDA Food Patterns: Findings from the Fourth School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study"

University of Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Workshop—Ann Arbor, MI—April 20
Yonatan Ben-Shalom: "Trends in Longitudinal Statistics for Young Social Security Disability Awardees"

American Enterprise Institute—Disability Insurance: Inherent Problems, Practical Solutions, and Action for Reform—Washington, DC—April 19
David Stapleton: "Proposals for Reform"

Society for Research in Child Development—Seattle, WA—April 18-20

National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers—The Times, They are a-Changin': Turning Research Into Impact During Changing Times—Hilton Alexandria Old Town, VA—April 18-19
David Wittenburg, David Mann, and Todd Honeycutt: "Barriers and Supports for Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities"
Arif Mamun, Frank Martin, and Jody Schimmel: "Social Security Disability Benefits and Vocational Rehabilitation Services: Program Entry and Return-to-Work Efforts"
David Stapleton and Yonatan Ben-Shalom: "Trends in Longitudinal Statistics for Young Social Security Disability Awardees"
David Mann and David Stapleton: "Fiscal Austerity and the Transition to Twenty-First Century Disability Policy: A Road Map"

Eastern Evaluation Research Society Annual Conference—Use It or Lose It: Making the Most of Evaluation Findings—Galloway, NJ—April 14-16
Sheila Hoag, Moderator: Innovative Uses of Evaluation Data for Continuous Quality Improvement and Building Evaluation Capacity in Stakeholder Organizations

Population Association of America Annual Meeting—New Orleans, LA—April 11-13
Ali Protik, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Matt Sloan, and Lindsay Wood: "A Random Evaluation of a Civic Participation Strengthening Program in Rwanda"
Silvie Colman and Others: "Emergency Contraception and Youth Risky Sexual Behavior"

Center for Studying Disability Policy Forum/Webinar—Young Social Security Disability Beneficiaries and Early Intervention to Increase Their Employment—Washington, DC—April 3
Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Thomas Fraker, and Others, Speakers

March

Federal CASIC Workshops—Washington, DC—March 19-21
Linda Bandeh, Speaker: Recent Innovations
Mark Brinkley and Gene Shkolnikov: "Lessons Learned: Using Tablets in the Field and the Future of Mobile Data Collection"
Diane Herz, Panelist: Management Challenges in CAI Survey Organizations
Rhoda Cohen and Others: "Using Responsive Design to Improve Response and Operational Efficiency Under the Constraints of Time-Sensitive Program Evaluation"
Kristina Rall and Andrew Frost, Coordinators: Web-Based Surveys
Glenn Jones: "Secure Mobile Data Collection: From iPads to Blaise/IS"

Centre for the Study of African Economies—Oxford, United Kingdom—March 17-19
Emilie Bagby and Others: "Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability"

American Society on Aging National Forum on Care Transitions—It Takes a Village—Chicago, IL—March 16
Randall Brown, Presenter

Annual Conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy—Education Renewal and Reform…in the Face of Resource Constraints—New Orleans, LA—March 14-16New Orleans, LA—March 14-16

National Alliance for Nutrition & Activity—Webinar—March 13
Mary Kay Fox, Mary Kay Crepinsek, and Others, Speakers: "Current State of School Meals & Snacks: School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study IV" View Webinar | Presentation Slides

Center of Excellence on Disability Research National Conference—Fulfilling the Promise: New Research on How Integrated and Coordinated Care Can Improve Outcomes for People with Disabilities—Crystal City, VA—March 11

Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness—Capitalizing on Contradiction: Learning from Mixed Results—Washington, DC—March 7-9
John Deke, Chair: Contamination and Implementation Fidelity in RCTs
Peter Schochet: "A Statistical Model for Misreported Binary Outcomes in Clustered RCTs of Education Interventions"
Philip Gleason, Christina Tuttle, Brian Gill, Ira Nichols-Barrer, and Alex Resch: "Impacts of KIPP Schools on Student Outcomes"
Susanne James-Burdumy, Martha Bleeker, Nicholas Beyler, and Others: "Does Playworks Work? Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial"
Susan Zief, Discussant: Leveraging Local Evaluations to Understand Contradictions

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago—Chicago, IL—March 6
Kimberly Boller: "Focus on Intervention Dosage: Do Families Take Up Services as Intended?" and "The Road Less Traveled: Exploring Non-Traditional Careers in Public Policy Research"

Health Information Management Systems Society Annual Conference—New Orleans, LA—March 4-7
Craig Schneider and Others: "Using Technology to Improve Care Transitions: The IMPACT Project"

February

World Congress Annual Leadership Summit on Medicaid Managed Care—Maximize the Value of Managed Care Through Strategies that Improve Your Adaptability, Operations, and Population Management—Arlington, VA—February 25-27
James Verdier, Moderator: Identifying Early-Implementer Challenges from the Dual Eligible Population

Center for Studying Disability Policy Forum/Webinar—Growing Pains: How Disability, Risky Behaviors, and Expectations During Youth Influence Early Adult Outcomes—Washington, DC—February 21
Gina Livermore, Todd Honeycutt, David Mann, and Others, Panelist

January

Center for Improving Research Evidence Forum/Webinar—Systematic Reviews as a Tool in Evidence-Based Decision Making: Improving Research and Informing Practice—Washington, DC—January 30
Roberto Agodini, Jill Constantine, and Others, Speakers

Annual National Forum on the Business of Medicare Advantage—Strategies to Survive and Expand Membership Enrollment in Tomorrow's Medicare—Washington, DC—January 28-29
Marsha Gold: "Dual Eligibles, SNPs, and Medicare"

American Economic Association—San Diego, CA—January 4-6
Dana Rotz: "The Impact of Abortion on the Wage Distribution: Evidence from Before Roe v. Wade" and "Why Have Divorce Rates Fallen? The Role of Women's Age at Marriage"
Kenneth Fortson, Randall Blair, Anu Rangarajan, Joanne Lee, and Valentine Gilbert: "Is Agricultural Training a Good Investment in Developing Countries? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Armenia"
Priyanka Anand: "The Effect of Rising Health Insurance Costs on Compensation and Employment"
Stacy Dale and Others: "Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data"
Robert Santillano and Others: "Do Local Immigration Laws Impact Employment and Wages? Evidence from the 287(g) Program"