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Behavioral Buzz: November 2016 - Thinking Bigger: How Do We Go Beyond Individual Nudges?

November 14, 2016
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Updates on behavioral economics and the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project:

  • Behavioral Science for Human Services Webinar
  • Thinking Bigger - How Do We Go Beyond Individual Nudges?
  • News & Upcoming Events

Behavioral Buzz: April 2017 - Putting Behavioral Science Insights into Practice

April 19, 2017
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Updates on behavioral economics and the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project.

Behavioral Buzz: November 2017 - Can a New Approach to Problem-solving Lead to Better Outcomes?

November 1, 2017
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Updates on behavioral economics and the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project...

The Promises and Challenges of Administrative Data in Social Policy Research: Roundtable Discussion

June 30, 2016
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In this video roundtable, government experts and experienced researchers discuss the opportunities and challenges presented when using administrative data for social policy research. Topics include: tips for planning administrative data research; working with (federal and state) data custodians; negotiating data...

Contextualizing effect sizes by examining population, study, and outcome characteristics: Extended investigation using multilevel models and mixtures, Hendricks Brown, University of South Florida

March 5, 2007
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This presentation examines the variation in impact with effect sizes by describing traditional meta-analyses and…

Issues in calculating average effect sizes in meta-analyses, Rebecca Maynard, Nianbo Dong, and Irma Perez-Johnson, University of Pennsylvania

March 5, 2007
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This session focused on the rationale for calculating average effect sizes, described which measures should be…

What are effect sizes and why we need them? Larry Hedges, Northwestern University

March 5, 2007
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Effect sizes are a type of quantitative representation of the magnitude of relations, differences, or…

Working Toward a Definition of Infant/Toddler Curricula: Intentionally Furthering the Development of Individual Children within Responsive Relationships

April 3, 2017
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What does “curriculum” mean when applied to working with infants and toddlers?

This brief discusses the meaning of the term when applied to early education and care programs serving families with infants and toddlers. The discussion focuses on how programs can incorporate and use the concepts of a curriculum in a way that is developmentally appropriate for infants and toddlers...

Nudging Change in Human Services: Final Report of the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) Project

May 17, 2017
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This report represents the final synthesis of the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency project. Overall, the project’s findings demonstrated that applying behavioral insights to challenges facing human services programs can improve program efficiency, operations, and outcomes at a relatively low cost.

Using Administrative Data in Social Policy Research

August 29, 2016
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Administrative data have the potential to help us answer pressing social policy questions. Government stakeholders and researchers are exploring the promises of using administrative data for research purposes.

This brief summarizes an Innovative Methods Meeting that was organized by OPRE in the fall of 2015 that considered the potential benefits and pitfalls of using administrative data for research purposes...