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Estimating the Impact of Emergency Assistance on Educational Progress for Low-Income Adults: Experimental and Nonexperimental Evidence
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Three nonexperimental approaches returned poor estimates of the impact of emergency assistance on educational progress for job trainees.
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.
Impacts of Workforce Training on School-Work Sequences in a Randomized Controlled Trial
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Abt’s analysis of career trajectories showed that Year Up increased transitions from training to higher-wage jobs but had no effect on persistent disconnection.
Impacts of 10 PACE and HPOG 1.0 Occupational Training Programs
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Only 1 of 10 programs evaluated—9 in the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education project plus the HPOG 1.0 Program--increased earnings after six years.
Do Employers Earn Positive Returns to Investments in Apprenticeship? Evidence from Registered Programs under the American Apprenticeship Initiative
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Employers experienced positive returns on their investments in registered apprenticeships.
Lessons from the Window of Opportunity Housing Initiative
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Abt evaluated the MacArthur Foundation’s WOO Initiative and found investments in individual entities support affordable housing preservation and development.
Engaging Employers to Register Apprenticeship Programs: Outcomes from the American Apprenticeship Initiative Employer Engagement Demonstration
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A study of an approach to recruit employers to register apprenticeship programs detected a statistically significant impact on adoption of such programs.
Improvement Testing in the Year Up Professional Training Corps Program: Final Grant Report
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Two small tests of a college-based version of the Year Up program found a general need for improvements and identified a strategy that may address this need.
Integrating Employment Services with Substance Use Treatment and Recovery: The Experiences of Five Programs
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An Abt-led report reviews five programs that combine SUD treatment and recovery services with employment services and makes recommendations for practitioners.
Spotlight On: Disability Policy & Research
Spotlight On
Abt helps clients improve their policies and programs with objective research and implementation support in the areas of employment, income supports, education, housing and health.