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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.
Latrine Businesses Prove Vital to Nutritional Health

Latrine Businesses Prove Vital to Nutritional Health

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Abt’s Ashfaq Enayetullah explains how commercial engagement furthers sanitation goals of our Feed the Future activity in Bangladesh and improves nutrition.
Agriculture Market Systems​ & Food Security

Agriculture Market Systems​ & Food Security

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Strong agricultural productivity and market systems are essential for countries working to improve resilience, enhance livelihoods, and better dietary health. At the forefront of agricultural innovation and food security solutions, Abt partners at local, national, and regional levels to strengthen capacity and develop sustainable food systems. Our approach expands climate-smart practices and improves governance of natural resources. We work with local actors to address market failures and improve business networks, norms that govern outcomes, and supportive services such as financing and technology adoption.
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Advancing Justice Through Smarter Systems

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We bring together deep domain expertise and modern engineering to help DOJ design secure, scalable, and user-centered digital tools.
Farm to School: A Comprehensive Review from 2010-2020

Farm to School: A Comprehensive Review from 2010-2020

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Following the 2010 reauthorization of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created a Farm to School Program to distribute grant funding, provide training and technical assistance for improving access…
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Young Baltimore parents feel immediate effects from guaranteed income

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Abt is evaluating guaranteed income pilots in several cities, including Baltimore. In this piece, Abt researchers Hannah Thomas and Randall Juras explain that we’ll be collecting “data on everything from spending to housing effects to more ‘squishy’ questions like the effects on peoples’ mental health and time spent with family,” which, of course, we’ll share in our findings.
Addressing the Compounding Challenges of Poverty in NYC

Addressing the Compounding Challenges of Poverty in NYC

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This blog sheds new qualitative context to New York City’s poverty data, describing challenges the city’s citizens face.
Improving Access to High-Quality Healthcare Through Strategic Purchasing

Spotlight On: Improving Access to High-Quality Healthcare Through Strategic Purchasing

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Helping country health systems change how they pay for health care to improve quality, efficiency, patient outcomes, and patient satisfaction.
Finding a High-Quality Job in the Caring Industry: HPOG Participants’ Occupational Choices

Finding a High-Quality Job in the Caring Industry: HPOG Participants’ Occupational Choices

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This brief presents insights from in-person interviews with 153 Health Profession Opportunity Grants participants about why and how they chose the health field and their occupation.
Clearinghouse Synthesizes Evidence on Labor Policies, Programs

Clearinghouse Synthesizes Evidence on Labor Policies, Programs

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The DOL-funded Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR) has several goals. It makes research on labor topics more accessible to practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and the public. It also provides information to inform decisions…