2004 Conference and Meeting Presentations
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices—Webcast—December 10, 2004
Donna Pavetti: TANF Reauthorization: Getting Over It Not Being Over
Microeconomics Seminar and the Institute of Public Policy Studies, George Washington University—Washington, DC—December 7, 2004
Steven Glazerman: "Impacts of Teach For America on Student Achievement and Other Outcomes"
Economic Research Service Small Grants Conference—Washington, DC—December 2-3, 2004
Ronette Briefel: "Food Insecurity and Obesity Among Low-Income Women and Infants"
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America—Washington, DC—November 19-23, 2004
Leslie Foster: "The Effects of Consumer-Directed Care on the Well-Being of Aged Family Caregivers of Adults with Disabilities"
National Association of State Medicaid Directors Fall Meeting—Washington, DC—November 17-19, 2004
Jim Verdier: "State-By-State Medicaid Pharmacy Data for 1999: Perspectives and Opportunities"
North American Association for the Study of Obesity Annual Scientific Meeting—Las Vegas, NV—November 14-18, 2004
Bob Whitaker: "National Study of Neighborhood Safety, Outdoor Play, TV Viewing, and Obesity in Preschool Children"
American Public Health Association—Washington, DC—November 6-10, 2004
Rita Stapulonis and Martha Kovac: "Do Survey Participants Under-Report Illicit Drug Use? A Comparison of Self-Reports and Hair Test Results"
John Hall and Mourad Touzani: "Limitations of RDD Telephone Surveys for Estimates of Health Care Utilization: Lessons from the Community Tracking Study"
Deborah Peikes: "Promoting Replication: Lessons for Nonprofits, Funders, and Evaluators"
Myles Maxfield: "Implementing a National Program for the Public Reporting of Hospital Quality Indicators: Lessons from the National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative"
Judith Wooldridge: "Barriers to and Enablers of People with Disabilities' Informed Participation in Health Care: Evidence from SSI Enrollees in TennCare"
Center for Health Care Strategies Purchasing Institute: Leveraging Data to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities—Atlanta, GA—November 4-5, 2004
Jim Verdier: "Key Elements of a Quality Improvement Project"
DC Primary Care Association 7th Annual Meeting—Washington, DC—October 29, 2004
Deborah Chollet: "Group Hospitalization and Medical Services: Capacity for Providing Community Health Initiatives" and "The Obligations of Nonprofits to Meet the Health Needs of Their Community"
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management—Atlanta, GA—October 28-30, 2004
National Conference on Health Care and Domestic Violence—Boston, MA—October 22-23, 2004
Anne Ciemnecki: "Preparing Coordinated Community Responders to Undertake Primary Prevention Activity"
American Association of Food Stamp Directors—Pittsburgh, PA—October 18, 2004
Scott Cody: "Evaluation of the Elderly Nutrition Pilots: Preliminary Findings"
Alliance for Health Reform—Washington, DC—October 18, 2004
Jim Verdier: "Eliminating the Two-Year Medicare Waiting Period for SSDI Beneficiaries: Fiscal Impact and Congressional Initiatives"
Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs—Waikiki, HI—October 13, 2004
Deborah Chollet: "Why Does Health Insurance Cost So Much?"
State Coverage Initiatives: Invitational Summit for State Policymakers—Philadelphia, PA—October 7, 2004
Jim Verdier: "Medicare's 2006 Takeover of Prescription Drug Coverage for Dual Eligibles in Nursing Facilities: Issues and Concerns"
2004 Invitational Conference on Medicaid and Mental Health Services—Baltimore, MD—October 5-6, 2004
Craig Thornton: "Participation of People with Mental Health Disorders in Ticket Act Programs"
9th Annual International Blaise User's Conference—Quebec, Canada—September 22-24, 2004
Mark Pierzchala, Claire Wilson, and Debbie Wright: "Instrument Design for a Blaise Multimode Web, CATI, and Paper Survey"
Leonard Hart, Yuki Okada, and Amanda Foster Sardenburg: "System Implementation for a Blaise Multimode Web, CATI, and Paper Survey"
National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics Annual Workshop—Oklahoma City, OK—August 22-25, 2004
Debra Strong: "Building Strong Families: Purpose, Program, and Progress"
Michelle VanNoy and Irma Perez-Johnson: "Targeted Help for the Hard to Employ: Outcomes of Two Philadelphia Welfare-to-Work Programs"
Robert Wood and Sheena McConnell: "Building Strong Families Programs: Possible Policy Changes to Reduce Marriage Penalties"
Anu Rangarajan: "Reforming Welfare Reform: Using Research to Promote Program Improvement"
Joint Statistical Meetings—Toronto, Canada—August 8-12, 2004
Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Daniel Kasprzyk: "Evaluating the Survival Analysis Method for Estimating Residency Rates"
Frank Potter, Nuria Diaz-Tena, and Mourad Touzani: "Using Propensity Score to Adjust Weights to Compensate for Nonresponse in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey"
Frank Potter, Cathy Lu, and Mourad Touzani: "Comparative Effectiveness of Administrative Data and County-Level Aggregates in Nonresponse Adjustment for Surveys of Low-Income Populations"
Nuria Diaz-Tena and Frank Potter: "Comparing Estimates and Variances for a Dataset with Missing Values and Multiple Hot-Deck Imputations"
Stephen Williams, Cathy Lu, and John Hall: "Response Models in RDD Surveys"
Esther Friedman and Nancy Clusen: "The Net Effect: A Comparison of Internet vs. Mail Survey Respondents"
Paul Guerino, Darryl Creel, and Donsig Jang: "Using Name Information to Impute Respondent Demographics"
John Hall, Yuhong Zheng, and Mourad Touzani: "Cellular Telephone Use Among Households with No or with Substantial Interruptions in Land-Line Service"
Mourad Touzani and John Hall: "Bias from Excluding Households Without Telephones in Random Digit Dialing Surveys: Follow-Up"
Donsig Jang and Amang Sukasih: "Replicate Variance Estimation for Combined Data of Independent Surveys"
Nancy Clusen (Chair): "From Mail-order Brides to Collegiate Athletes: Analysis of Unique Populations Around the World"
Daniel Kasprzyk (Chair): "Interviewer Falsification of Survey Data"
Frank Potter (Chair): "Problems in Spatial and Cluster Analysis"
Head Start Bureau Updates National Satellite Broadcast and Webcast—August 4, 2004—1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. (EDT)
Diane Paulsell: Reporting findings from "Quality Assurance Visits to Head Start Programs."
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices: "Family Structure and Child Well-Being: What Policymakers Should Know"—Webcast—July 22, 2004—3:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. (EST)
Robin Dion: "What Surveys Tell Us About People's Attitudes on Marriage, Marriage Education, and the Government's Role."
Head Start Research Conference—Washington, DC—June 28-July 1, 2004
John Love: "Findings from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: Environments of Low-Income Children from Birth to Prekindergarten and Effects on Development," "Update on the Head Start National Reporting System," and "Early Head Start Research and School Readiness"
Ellen Eliason Kisker: "Understanding Experiences and Outcomes for High Risk Families in Early Head Start," "Promoting Development in Children with Disabilities: Identification, Experiences, and Outcomes," and "How Do Implementation and Service Use Shape Experimental Impacts of Policies and Programs on Families in Poverty?"
John Love and Susan Sprachman: "Research-Based Curriculum-Embedded Assessment of Children in a Statewide Child Development System"
Kimberly Boller: "Key Findings from Early Head Start Father Studies"
Anne Bloomenthal: "Child Care and Early Education Research Connections"
Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Research Workshop—Madison, WI—June 21-24, 2004
Paul Decker: "The Effects of Teach For America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation"
Cost-Effectiveness in Evaluation—Ottawa, Canada—June 17, 2004
Paul Decker: "Benefit-Cost Analysis in Evaluations of U.S. Training Programs"
National Charter Schools Conference—Miami, FL—June 16-18, 2004
Philip Gleason: "Research Design Issues: Different Methods, Different Results" The Father Factor: National Head Start Institute on Father Involvement—Dallas, TX—June 14-18, 2004
Andrew Burwick and Charles Nagatoshi: "Reaching Out to Fathers: Lessons from the Early Head Start Fatherhood Demonstration"
Progressive Policy Institute Forum—Washington, DC—June 14, 2004
Paul Decker: "Evaluation of the Teach For America (TFA) Program"
National Association of State Medicaid Directors—Williamsburg, VA—June 7, 2004
Jim Verdier: "Medicare's Takeover of Prescription Drug Coverage for Dual Eligibles in Nursing Facilities: Are Your Problems Ending or Beginning?"
AcademyHealth—San Diego, CA—May 26-28, 2004
ACF National Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference—Washington, DC—May 26-28, 2004
Anu Rangarajan: "Two-Parent Family Participation in TANF and Food Stamps"
Robin Dion: "Implementing Programs to Strengthen Unwed Parents"
Peter Schochet and Anu Rangarajan: "Wage Progression and Mobility Among Low-Wage Workers in the Late 1990s"
Tom Fraker: "The Welfare to Work Grants Program: Enrollee Outcomes One Year After Program Entry"
Irma Perez-Johnson: "Employment and Child Support Outcomes in the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: The SHARE Program in Yakima, Washington"
American Association for Public Opinion Research—Phoenix, AZ—May 12-16, 2004 National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group on Higher Education—Cambridge, MA—April 30, 2004
Dan Levy: "Empathy or Antipathy? The Impact of Diversity"
Federal Interagency Committee on Disability Research's Subcommittee on Disability Statistics: "Best Practices for Surveying People With Disabilities"—Washington, DC—April 19-20, 2004
Anne Ciemnecki: "Simple Survey Modifications Increase Accessibility"
Susan Mitchell: "Using Multiple Survey Response Modes to Increase Accessibility"
Ohio Commission to Reform Medicaid—Columbus, OH—April 19, 2004
Jim Verdier: "Models for Consumer-Directed Care in Medicaid"
Children, Inc.—Sixth Annual Children: Our Common Wealth Conference—Covington, KY—April 16-17, 2004
John Love: "Starting Early: How Early Head Start and Other Infant-Toddler Interventions Promote School Readiness"
National Council on Aging and the American Society on Aging Conference—San Francisco, CA—April 14-17, 2004
University of Maryland Social Sciences Forum Spring Lecture Series—Baltimore, MD—April 14, 2004
Chuck Metcalf: "The Role of Think Tanks in Policymaking"
Child Care Policy Research Consortium Meeting—Washington, DC—April 13, 2004
Anne Bloomenthal: "Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: Research Connections Data Files"
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting—San Diego, CA—April 12-16, 2004
Mark Dynarski received an Award for Exemplary Service on Behalf of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. The award is presented to researchers whose reviews of submitted manuscripts represent the highest standards of scholarship.
Steve Glazerman presented an update on the Teach for America evaluation, including findings on teacher characteristics.
Susan Sprachman and John Love presented at the poster symposium "Research-Based Curriculum-Embedded Assessment of Children in a Statewide Child Development System." The symposium was based on work they are doing as part of a team of researchers developing observational assessments for the California Department of Education, Child Development Division. Susan's presentations were "Articulating Developmental Indicators Across Age Levels" and "Implementation at Early Care and Education Sites: Training Teachers as Observational Assessors." John coauthored "Assessment to Inform Program Decisions and Support Program Improvement."
Korantemaa Atanda, and colleagues from Columbia University and UCLA, presented chapters from their forthcoming book, In Search of Brown, to be published by Harvard University Press, 2005.
Brigham Young University Family and Poverty Research Conference—Provo, UT—March 10-12, 2004
Robin Dion: "Federal Policy Efforts to Help Disadvantaged Families by Supporting Marriage and Family Stability"
Eastern Economic Association—Washington, DC—February 20, 2004
Glen Mays and Megan McHugh: "Do Investments in Local Public Health Infrastructure Improve Community Health?" "How Staffing Levels Influence the Performance of Essential Public Health Services"
University of Pittsburgh Health Policy Institute—Pittsburgh, PA—January 14, 2004
Marsha Gold: "The Future of Medicare: Lessons from Medicare+Choice" Birth-to-Three Conference—Baltimore, MD—January 12, 2004
Jeanne Bellotti and Cheri Vogel: "Supporting Fathers: Lessons From the Early Head Start Father Studies"
New Orleans Marriage Symposium—New Orleans, LA—January 7, 2004
Robin Dion: "Policy Implications of a New Study of Fragile Families Commissioned by the State of Louisiana"
Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting—San Diego, CA—January 3-5, 2004
Melissa Clark: "Education Reform, Redistribution, and Student Achievement: Evidence From the Kentucky Education Reform Act"
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