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Productive Uses of Energy in African Agriculture Could Reduce Poverty
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As conditions for the adoption of productive uses of energy improve in sub-Saharan Africa, this paper makes suggestions to accelerate their adoption.

How Do the Impacts of Healthcare Training Vary with Credential Length? Evidence from the Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program
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Our analysis of HPOG subgroups defined by program experiences found weak evidence that long-term credentials led to meaningfully larger earnings impacts.

Career Pathways: A Strategy to Boost College Completion and Economic Mobility
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Julie Strawn’s brief in the College Completion Strategy Guide provides evidence-based recommendations to improve college completion & increase economic mobility.

AdvancingCities 2021 Annual Progress Report
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In this report, Abt shares lessons learned from grantees of JPMorgan Chase & Co’s AdvancingCities program.

Benefits That Last: Long-term Impact and Cost-benefit Findings for Year Up
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Year Up’s training program for young adults produced large, lasting earnings increases and positive financial benefits for society in this experiment.

Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement Six-Year Impact Report
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The Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement increased receipt of college certificates and degrees but did not lead to higher incomes.

Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) Program: Six-Year Impact Report
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Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program did not produce educational or earnings impacts.

A Meta-Analysis of 46 Career Pathways Impact Evaluations
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This report for the U.S. Department of Labor synthesizes findings from 46 impact evaluations of career pathways and related programs.

How Can Postsecondary Education and Training Programs Help Working Students Persist? Findings from Career Pathways Studies
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This brief, using data from three studies of programs with a career pathways framework, summarizes options for helping students balance school and work.

Policy Briefs on HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program
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These briefs explore the policy implications of Abt’s evaluations of Compass Working Capital’s financial capability model of the Family Self-Sufficiency program.