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Home Visiting and Use of Infant Health Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Kilburn, M Rebecca, Cannon, Jill S

“…Evaluations of home visiting models have shown that they can reduce children's health care use in the first year of life. Models that exclusively use nurses as…”
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ENDOWMENTS AND PARENTAL INVESTMENTS IN INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD by DATAR, ASHLESHA, KILBURN, M. REBECCA, LOUGHRAN, DAVID S.

“…This article tests whether parents reinforce or compensate for child endowments. We estimate how the difference in birth weight across siblings impacts…”
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Home Visiting for First-Time Parents: Community Innovation by Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Cannon, Jill S.

“…In this article, M. Rebecca Kilburn and Jill S. Cannon report on First Born, a targeted universal home visiting program operating in over half of New Mexico…”
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METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR HOME‐VISITING RESEARCH IN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES by Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Lyon, Kate, Anderson, Cyndi, Gutman, Pamela, Whitesell, Nancy Rumbaugh

“…ABSTRACT Drawing on previous studies and the collective experience of conducting rigorous evaluations as part of the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early…”
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Lessons from the randomized trial evaluation of a new parent program: when the evaluators see the glass as half full, and the community sees the glass as half empty by Kilburn, M. Rebecca

“…Objectives To disseminate lessons learned from implementing a randomized trial in a community setting so that other randomized trials can anticipate and…”
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The Welcome Baby Program: An Implementation and Outcomes Evaluation by Hunter, Sarah B, Kilburn, M Rebecca, Teryn, Mattox, Cannon, Jill S, Terry, Marsh, Felician, Melissa, Maya, Buenaventura, Lauren, Davis, Matthew, Cefalu

“…This article presents the findings from an evaluation of First 5 LA's Welcome Baby home visitation program. In 2015, First 5 LA contracted with the RAND…”
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Priorities for Investments in Children and Families in Caddo and Bossier Parishes: Application of a Unique Framework for Identifying Priorities by Kilburn, M Rebecca, Maloney, Shannon

“…In Louisiana, the Community Foundation of Shreveport-Bossier pools funds from sources in Caddo and Bossier Parishes, manages the funds, and allocates the…”
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Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise by Karoly, Lynn A, Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Cannon, Jill S

“…Parents, policymakers, business leaders, and the general public increasingly recognize the importance of the first few years in the life of a child for…”
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Process Evaluation of the New Mexico Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Competitive Development Grant by Chinman, Matthew, Hunter, Sarah B, Cannon, Jill S, Kilburn, M Rebecca, Harvey, Melody, Rudnick, Mollie

“…This article describes the evaluation of the New Mexico Home Visiting Competitive Development Grant, which sought to pilot test the use of implementation…”
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The response of household parental investment to child endowments by Loughran, David S, Datar, Ashlesha, Kilburn, M. Rebecca

“…The theoretical and empirical literature on parental investment focuses on whether child-specific parental investments reinforce or compensate for a child’s…”
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Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know about the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions by Karoly, Lynn A, Greenwood, Peter W, Everingham, Susan S, Hoube, Jill, Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Rydell, C. Peter, Sanders, Matthew, Chiesa, James

“…This study quantified the benefits to children and parents participating in nine early intervention programs and conducted a cost-benefit analysis of the Perry…”
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Home Visiting Start-Up: Lessons Learned From Program Replication in New Mexico by Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Cannon, Jill S.

“…Growth in federal, state, and private funding is fueling the initiation of home visiting programs around the country. As communities expand home visiting…”
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Meeting Decision Makers' Needs for Evidence-Based Information on Child and Family Policy by Cannon, Jill S., Kilburn, M. Rebecca

“…With the growing push toward accountability and the interest in designing programs based on scientific evidence, decision makers increasingly need to know what…”
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Investing Early: Taking Stock of Outcomes and Economic Returns from Early Childhood Programs by Cannon, Jill S., Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Karoly, Lynn A., Mattox, Teryn, Muchow, Ashley N., Buenaventura, Maya

“…This study synthesizes evidence on the outcomes, costs, and benefits of early childhood programs, including those that provide early care and education, home…”
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Investing Early: Taking Stock of Outcomes and Economic Returns from Early Childhood Programs by Cannon, Jill S, Kilburn, M Rebecca, Karoly, Lynn A, Mattox, Teryn, Muchow, Ashley N, Buenaventura, Maya

“…The past two decades have been characterized by a growing body of research from diverse disciplines-child development, psychology, neuroscience, and economics,…”
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Readiness to Implement Evidence-Based Practices in Public Elementary Schools: Findings from a National Survey of Teachers. Research Report. RR-A168-8 by Dopp, Alex R, Bongard, Michelle, Phillips, Andrea, Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Johnston, William R

“…There is an increasing emphasis on the use of evidence-based practices (EBPs) by public elementary school teachers, yet little is known about how teachers and…”
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Programs That Work, from the Promising Practices Network on Children, Families and Communities. RAND Tool by Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Ed

“…The Promising Practices Network (PPN) on Children, Families and Communities (www.promisingpractices.net) began as a partnership between four state-level…”
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Child Rearing in America: Challenges Facing Parents with Young Children by Halfon, Neal, McLearn, Kathryn Taaffe, Schuster, Mark A

“…This rich and well-researched volume comes in the wake of intense national interest in young children. Leading scholars from diverse disciplines use relevant…”
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Does Four Equal Five? Implementation and Outcomes of the Four-Day School Week. Appendix C. RR-A373-1 by Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Phillips, Andrea, Gomez, Celia J, Mariano, Louis T, Doss, Christopher Joseph, Troxel, Wendy M, Morton, Emily, Estes, Kevin

“…The four-day school week (4dsw) is growing in popularity, especially in rural areas across the western United States. RAND Corporation researchers addressed…”
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Does Four Equal Five? Implementation and Outcomes of the Four-Day School Week. RR-A373-1 by Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Phillips, Andrea, Gomez, Celia J, Mariano, Louis T, Doss, Christopher Joseph, Troxel, Wendy M, Morton, Emily, Estes, Kevin

“…The four-day school week (4dsw) is growing in popularity, especially in rural areas across the western United States. RAND Corporation researchers addressed…”
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