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Help Send Mathematica Staff and Our Community Partners to SXSW EDU

Mathematica staff and their local community partners are vying for an opportunity to share insights from cutting-edge projects related to equity, early learning, the science of learning, and K–12 education.




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Mathematica Experts Showcase MACBIS Expertise and Present on Medicaid Methods and Topics at Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference

Mathematica experts will showcase their expertise in providing business analytics and data quality development for the Medicaid and CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) Business Information Solution (MACBIS) at this year’s Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference in Chicago.




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Improving Educational Equity Through Cultural Responsiveness in Schools and Educator Preparation Programs: A Virtual Workshop Series

Join the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic and stakeholders from the New Jersey and Delaware Departments of Education for a free four-part series on culturally responsive practices as a strategy for improving education outcomes.




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New Study of Program for Noncustodial Parents Reveals Large Effect on Parents’ Level of Satisfaction with Child Support Services

Parents who participated in the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED) reported substantially higher levels of satisfaction with child support services compared with those who did not participate in the program.




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New Research Analyzes State-Level Impact of USDA Proposal to End SNAP Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility

This interactive data visualization uses SNAP quality control data from fiscal year 2016 and microsimulation modeling to provide detailed information on the demographic characteristics of those at risk of losing benefits.




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Mathematica Honors National Principals Month with Resources on Innovative Programs to Develop School Leaders

Each October, National Principals Month recognizes the essential role principals play in making schools great.




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Final Impacts of a Home Visiting Program in Texas Designed to Reduce Repeat Pregnancies

A final report presents evidence on the long-term impacts of the Steps to Success home visiting program for adolescent mothers in San Angelo, Texas.




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New Tools to Explore the Role of Physician Group Practices in U.S. Health Care Systems

A new, publicly available data file on physician group practices has been released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Comparative Health System Performance Initiative.




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Mathematica at Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM): Rising to the Challenge of Engaging Diverse Perspectives

From November 7 to 9, APPAM will host its annual Fall Research Conference in Denver, Colorado. As a proud partner of APPAM since its inception, Mathematica will participate in a number of conference activities.




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Using Data to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Mathematica disability policy expert Purvi Sevak joined a panel of experts at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to discuss how the agency is facilitating the collection and sharing of data that might help improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities.




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Mathematica Partners with the Food and Nutrition Service and Boston Children’s Hospital at the APHA Annual Meeting and Expo

Mathematica researchers partnered with key clients and contributed to a number of projects that will be presented at the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting and Expo in Philadelphia from November 2 to 6.




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Mathematica Supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’s State Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Transformation and Innovation Milestones

Mathematica will showcase state Medicaid services and support for CMS projects to modernize data analytics for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program at the National Association of Medicaid Directors fall conference.




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LaVerne H. Council Appointed to Mathematica’s Board of Directors

Mathematica announced the appointment of LaVerne H. Council to serve as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors.




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New Tools for Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high for students in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten compared with those in elementary and middle school. Check out new resources to help identify and reduce it.




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New Toolkit Highlights How Medicare Accountable Care Organizations Engage Beneficiaries

Under a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Mathematica’s health experts worked with 24 Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Seamless Care Organizations participating in the Shared Savings Program, Next Generation ACO Model, and the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model to identify the strategies that ACOs use to engage beneficiaries in their care.




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New Year, New Insights: Working Together to Make a Difference for Students

As we step into the new year, Mathematica is proud to announce new partnerships with the U.S. Department of Education. On these projects, we will work together to evaluate education programs and produce insights that strengthen teaching and learning.




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Howard University and Mathematica to Host Computational Social Science Summer Institute

Mathematica and Howard University have partnered to host the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which will give social and data scientists opportunities to explore how they can use real-world data to address ethics and equity in artificial intelligence.




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Mathematica Named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality

Mathematica received a score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s recently released 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), earning the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.




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Reading tourism texts : a multimodal analysis / Sabrina Francesconi

Francesconi, Sabrina, 1976-




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The semiotics of heritage tourism / Emma Waterton and Steve Watson

Waterton, Emma




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Tourism and the power of otherness : seductions of difference / edited by David Picard and Michael A. Di Giovine




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Trends in European tourism planning and organisation / edited by Carlos Costa, Emese Panyik and Dimitrios Buhalis




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Aspects of tourist behavior / edited by Metin Kozak and Nazmi Kozak




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International handbook on ecotourism / edited by Roy Ballantyne and Jan Packer, University of Queensland, School of Tourism, Australia




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Revenue management for hospitality and tourism / [edited by] Patrick Legohérel, Elisabeth Poutier and Alan Fyall




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The ecotourism-extraction nexus : political economies and rural realities of (un)comfortable bedfellows / edited by Bram Büscher and Veronica Davidov




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Tourism and archaeology : sustainable meeting grounds / edited by Cameron Walker, Neil Carr




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International cases in sustainable travel & tourism / edited by Pierre Beckendorff, Dagmar Lund-Durlacher




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Tourism marketing : quality and service management perspectives / [edited by] Eric Laws




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Japanese tourism : spaces, places and structures / Carolin Funck and Malcolm Cooper

Funck, Carolin




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Marketing and designing the tourist experience / Isabelle Frochot and Wided Batat

Frochot, Isabelle, author




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Tourist destination images and local culture : using the example of the United Arab Emirates / Verena Schwaighofer ; foreword by Prof. Dr. Sc. Othmar M. Lehner

Schwaighofer, Verena, author




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Economy hotels in China : a glocalised innovative hospitality sector / Songshan (Sam) Huang and Xuhua (Michael) Sun

Huang, Songshan




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A landscape of travel : the work of tourism in rural ethnic China / Jenny Chio

Chio, Jenny, author




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Romancing the wild : cultural dimensions of ecotourism / Robert Fletcher

Fletcher, Robert, 1973- author




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Internet marketing implementation and leapfrogging effects in tourism / Ahmad Fareed Ismail

Ismail, Ahmad Fareed, author




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Travel and imagination / edited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton




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Tourism and citizenship : rights, freedom and responsibilities in the global order / Raoul V. Bianchi and Marcus L. Stephenson

Bianchi, Raoul V., author




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Foodies and food tourism / text by Donald Getz, Richard N.S. Robinson, Tommy D. Andersson and Sanja Vujicic

Getz, Donald, 1949- author




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Tourism security : strategies for effectively managing travel risk and safety / by Peter E. Tarlow

Tarlow, Peter E., author




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Understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility : psychological and behavioural approaches / edited by Scott A. Cohen, James E.S. Higham, Paul Peeters and Stefan Gössling




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Shipwrecks of the Ningaloo Reef : maritime archaeological projects from 1978-2009 / Jeremy Green (editor) ; with contributions by Ross Anderson ... [et al.]




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Green growth and travelism : concept, policy and practice for sustainable tourism / edited by Terry DeLacy, Min Jiang, Geoffrey Lipman and Shaun Vorster




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Managing sustainability in the hospitality and tourism industry : paradigms and directions for the future / edited by Vinnie Jauhari, PhD




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The tourism education futures initiative : activating change in tourism education / edited by Darko Prebezac, Christian Schott and Pauline J. Sheldon




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Planning for ethnic tourism / Li Yang and Geoffrey Wall

Yang, Li, author




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Tourism in Latin America : cases of success / Alexandre Panosso Netto, Luiz Gonzaga, Godoi Trigo, editors




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The Wiley Blackwell companion to tourism / edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, and Allan M. Williams




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European tourism planning and organisation systems : the EU member states / edited by Carlos Costa, Emese Panyik and Dimitrios Buhalis




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Tourism destination development : turns and tactics / edited by Arvid Viken and Brynhild Granås