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In this blog, Abt shares the insights gained from—and stories told by—people with lived experience in Rapid Re-housing Programs.

By taking a fully integrated approach to data use and adaptation, the USAID ECHO project is closing in on 95-95-95 targets in only two years, amid cyclone, floods, and COVID.

Lauren Olsho is a senior health economist and evaluator with expertise in random assignment, quasi-experimental evaluation methods, economic modeling methodology, and advanced statistical and econometric analysis.Olsho’s primary research interests are in health, nutrition and health behaviors in vulnerable populations – including the elderly, the poor, program participants, minorities, arrestees and at-risk youth.Olsho recently served as principal investigator on a cluster random assignment evaluation of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality On-Time Falls Prevention Initiative, a clinical decision support intervention to reduce falls in long-term care settings.

Abt and MDRC evaluated the Cascades College and Career Academy Job Corps pilot demonstration, which provided academic and career technical training.

Abt helped design the ZAPPA tool so New York City could evaluate the potential impacts of proposed environmental polices, down to the neighborhood level.

This report examines four elements required for strong partnerships between Job Corps Centers and community colleges.

Abt’s evaluation of the HPOG 1.0 Program after six years shows that gains in educational progress and healthcare jobs did not lead to earnings gains.

Abt Global’s analysis of careers in mid-level occupations found the features of occupations and workers that affected wage increases.

A report by Abt and Mathematica on the LIFT coaching intervention found it was implemented as designed and created trusting relations with participants.