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Barbara Phillips
Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research
Publications - 51
Citations - 1005
Barbara Phillips is an academic researcher from Mathematica Policy Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicaid & Cash. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 51 publications receiving 990 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara Phillips include United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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What do effective teachers of inner-city children have in common?
TL;DR: The authors investigated the extent to which variables describing the classroom behavior of teachers and variables describing teachers' backgrounds and training explain differences in the effectiveness of teachers in improving the vocabulary skills of inner-city black children in four elementary grade levels.
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Learning by doing, vintage, and selection: Three pieces of the puzzle relating teaching experience and teaching performance
TL;DR: This article showed that the impact of learning by doing on teaching performance is significantly increased when the impact is estimated in a model that explicitly accounts for vintage effects, and that the relationship between experience and performance observed in a cross-section of teachers is discussed.
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Improving The Quality Of Medicaid Personal Assistance Through Consumer Direction
TL;DR: Findings from the first demonstration program to be implemented, in Arkansas, showed that relative to agency-directed services, Cash and Counseling greatly improved satisfaction and reduced most unmet needs.
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Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction on Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the effect of consumer-directed care on the emotional, physical, and financial well-being of the primary informal caregivers of the Medicaid beneficiaries who voluntarily joined Arkansas's Cash and Counseling demonstration.
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The effects of cash and counseling on personal care services and Medicaid costs in Arkansas.
TL;DR: The Cash and Counseling Demonstration gives Medicaid beneficiaries who are eligible for personal care services a consumer-directed allowance in lieu of traditional agency services and finds the program increased the receipt of paid care but reduced unpaid care.