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The Green Jobs and Health Care Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Impact Study of Four Training Programs for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Workers
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Supporting Litigation to Enforce the Clean Water Act
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Abt primarily has provided expert opinion regarding the relative permanence of waterways affected by industrial, agricultural, or petroleum-related spills into waterways throughout the U.S.
Improving Diagnostic Pathways for Rare Diseases in Australia
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Abt recommended a variety of ways to improve the diagnostic journey for Tasmanians with a rare disease through a rare disease diagnostic care pathway.
Still Bridging the Opportunity Divide for Low-Income Youth: Year Up’s Longer-Term Impacts
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Abt’s evaluation of Year Up found that the training program for young adults increased earnings and generated benefits that exceeded costs.
Deepwater Horizon Spill Assessment and Restoration Plan
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In 2010, an explosion on a Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. It required a massive response to minimize damage and protect the environment, with involvement by many federal and…
Helping Get the Kinks out of Home Health Prospective Payments
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Changes in the complex prospective payment system (PPS) for home health agencies (HHAs) may have led to HHA behavior changes that thwarted the modifications’ goals. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wanted an assessment of…
Evaluating Gates Foundation Agronomy Grants
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded Abt Global to evaluate a selection of five agronomy grants designed by the foundation’s Agricultural Development (AgDev) team. The goal of the evaluation was to analyze results of the work of the soil…
Abt Refines Approach to Participatory Mapping for Land Governance in Indonesia
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With more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia has always struggled to map its plentiful resources and boundaries. Few of the country’s 65,000 villages have legally demarcated boundaries. That hampers the flow of investment and public funding to rural areas…
Winter Sports Are on Thin Ice -- This Snowboarder Wants To Preserve Their Future
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