The growing use of math and reading scores to measure school and student performance, spurred by the No Child Left Behind Act, has heightened an old debate about which competencies public schools should encourage students to develop. A new issue brief looks at how students’ competencies in...

Oklahoma’s Medicaid managed care 1115 waiver program, SoonerCare, has been through many changes in the last 15 years, including the end of fully capitated managed care in 2003 and expansion statewide of the SoonerCare Choice enhanced primary care case management program. Mathematica’s...

This article dvelops a framework for understanding how financial and nonfinancial incentives can complicate point-of-care decision making by physicians, leading to the over- or under-use of health care services. The analysis highlights contributing factors that promote and impede evidence-based...

This paper used data from the third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study to identify disparities by race/ethnicity and obesity status in the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and other beverages among United States schoolchildren. The analysis found that beverage consumption patterns...

This report presents key findings of an impact evaluation of a rural road rehabilitation project in Armenia. Changes in outcomes for roads that were rehabilitated are compared to changes in outcomes for a comparison group of otherwise similar roads that were not rehabilitated.

In July 2012, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) awarded cooperative agreements to a select group of programs proposing innovative ways to improve the quality and lower the cost of care for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees....

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, a federal income support program administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA), which includes children under age 18 with disabilities in low-income households, has grown in recent years.