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Homelessness & Public Health: How Can We Close the Gap?
Podcast
Abt’s Natalie Matthews and Terri Mota connect the dots between homelessness and public health and discuss how we can do more moving forward in this podcast.
Evaluation of the Department of Interior Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Program
Project
The Department of the Interior (DOI) Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Program consists of 167 restoration, mitigation, and science projects to develop and implement best practices for improving coastal resilience to sea-level rise, storm surge, and…
Deeper Insights on Americans’ Financial Well-Being
Project
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) works to help consumers enhance their financial well-being, a holistic metric that goes beyond income and credit score to capture individuals’ perceptions of their financial security and ability to make…
Tracking Minnesotans' Access and Use of Home and Community-based Health Services
Project
Minnesota’s Department of Human Services wanted to leverage existing state data to develop measures to help monitor access to Medicaid-funded home and community-based services (HCBS). To build on our prior work evaluating critical access to the state’s…
Impacts of Workforce Training on School-Work Sequences in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Publication
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.
How Can We Eradicate Infectious Diseases Using Machine Learning?
Podcast
In this month’s episode, Abt experts Jill Berkowitz and Sung-Woo Cho discuss how machine learning can amplify our work combatting malaria—25 million people protected to date—by applying what we’ve learned to other infectious diseases.
Updating EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program Annual Data Highlights
Project
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been collecting greenhouse gas emissions data through the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) from approximately 8,000 emitters—including power plants, oil and gas producers, and manufacturers—since 2010…
Assessing the Massachusetts Education Evaluation Framework
Project
From 2012-2015, Abt helped assess the implementation of Massachusetts’s new educator evaluation framework. The purpose of the research was to provide the Commonwealth and districts with real-time, usable feedback to support implementation of the…
Child Care Provider Appreciation Day: Valuing Our Providers
Blog
Child care providers provide vital, professional services that have a real impact on families; this blog explains why we need to compensate them accordingly.
How State-Based Co-Ops Can Improve Primary Care Quality
Publication
A new AHRQ guide shares information and guidance for multi-organization groups to provide quality improvement programs for primary healthcare providers.