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Capturing Methane From Wastewater in Developing Countries
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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…
Trust and Localization: The Missing Tools in Pandemic Preparedness and Response
News
What is humanity’s best defense against a pandemic or other major threat? You’d be partially right to think: high-tech equipment in gleaming new health facilities, a computer farm in the cloud to collect and share data, highly qualified clinical staff, vast sums for vaccine research and development, and expansive budgets funding expensive national public health systems.
UK Governance Assistance in the Pacific Region
Project
HMG wants a scoping and design exercise for a new governance programme in the Pacific to enhance regional security and prosperity. We are assessing the contribution that the Conflict, Security and Stability Fund could make toward these objectives. This…
Risk factors for reinfection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant among previously infected frontline workers
Publication
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study confirms that mask use, vaccinations, and boosters reduce the risk of COVID-19 reinfection.
Impacts of 10 PACE and HPOG 1.0 Occupational Training Programs
Publication
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.
Housing Demand and Neighborhood Choice with Housing Vouchers
Publication
New HUD Funding Addresses Three Challenges Identified by Encampment Research
Blog
Abt explains how the Biden administration’s Initiative for Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness addresses findings from our study of homeless encampments.
What Does It Mean to ‘Overspend’ on Teacher Salaries?
News
Abt’s Cara Jackson set off a Tweet storm that she turned into a two-part blog series for Education Week on the role of teacher’s salaries in student outcomes.
Using Ecometric Data to Explore Sources of Cross-Site Impact Variance in Multi-Site Trials
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A guide to learning more from social experiments using data from participants to measure implementation practices and local confounding factors.