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Spotlight On: Boosting Skills and Earnings

Spotlight On: Boosting Skills and Earnings

Spotlight On
For more than 30 years, Abt Global has conducted research on workforce development programs and their effectiveness raising participants’ skills to meet employers’ workforce needs and to increase employment and earnings prospects for workers.
Abt’s Program Theory Playbook: Six Visual Strategies That Will Change Your Evaluation Game

Abt’s Program Theory Playbook: Six Visual Strategies That Will Change Your Evaluation Game

Blog
Abt’s developed a playbook that illustrates six different types of program theories to help program developers and evaluators visualize program theories.
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Three Tips to Make the Most of Community School Funding

Blog
Funding for the Full Service Community Schools Program has doubled, so we’re offering three tips to make the most of this approach to support the whole child.
Big Win for Children’s Nutrition: Summer EBT Fully Funded

Big Win for Children’s Nutrition: Summer EBT Fully Funded

Blog
Abt Global’s decade of evaluations of the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children pilot can inform the national rollout of the pilot.
Do Year-Round Schools Work? Three Questions to Ask

Do Year-Round Schools Work? Three Questions to Ask

Blog
Abt’s Cara Jackson offers three tips to help educators determine if year-round instruction is desirable—and feasible—for their students.
Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG 2.0) National Evaluation Implementation Study Report

Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG 2.0) National Evaluation Implementation Study Report

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This study of Health Profession Opportunity Grants 2.0 documents how non-tribal grantees implemented programs and participant characteristics and engagement.
Estimating the Impact of Emergency Assistance on Educational Progress for Low-Income Adults

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

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.
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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.