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The Green Jobs and Health Care Impact Evaluation (GJ-HC) is a rigorous evaluation of four career pathways programs funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. The programs – enacted in response to the 2008 recession – targeted unemployed workers and those…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) wants to know about the effectiveness of offering access to first-time homebuyer education and counseling.

Abt Global is evaluating an initiative by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to end long-term homelessness in Los Angeles County, which as one of the largest homeless populations in the nation. Under the initiative, the foundation is supporting efforts to: …

School Turnaround AmeriCorps is a grant program to increase high school graduation, college readiness, and educational attainment for students in our nation’s persistently lowest-achieving schools, designated as School‐Improvement Grant (SIG) or Priority…

In 2010, Hennepin County, Minn., was one of 16 grantees awarded funds by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to replicate with fidelity and rigorously evaluate evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs. Abt Global conducted a…

Under traditional Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pays providers separately for each service delivered, which may incentivize medically unnecessary care.  Providers who participate in CMS’s Bundled Payment for Care…

Municipal wastewater accounts for a substantial amount of methane emissions worldwide. Capturing and using methane from wastewater systems can help mitigate climate change and provide a source of local clean energy. However, cities in developing…

Cities in developing countries often lack the technical capacity, financial resources and technologies to improve solid waste management. They are often paralyzed by the rapidly growing rates at which waste is generated and needs to be disposed, and…

From 2012 to 2015, the research team including Abt Global and SRI International studied the implementation of a new system to improve educator effectiveness in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The research was conducted for the Massachusetts Department…

In its 2016 edition of Climate Change Indicators in the United States, more than 40 indicators of climate change demonstrate that global warming is already affecting the environment and society worldwide. The report, supported in part with data from Abt…