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Abt evaluated the MacArthur Foundation’s WOO Initiative and found investments in individual entities support affordable housing preservation and development.

A study of essential and frontline workers with COVID-19 showed that two or three vaccine doses reduced symptoms, missed work, and the need for medical care.

A study of an approach to recruit employers to register apprenticeship programs detected a statistically significant impact on adoption of such programs.

Two small tests of a college-based version of the Year Up program found a general need for improvements and identified a strategy that may address this need.

Julie Strawn’s brief in the College Completion Strategy Guide provides evidence-based recommendations to improve college completion & increase economic mobility.

The Study of Nutrition and Activity in Child Care Settings found that most Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) meals provided required CACFP components.

Abt studied staff turnover in nursing homes and found higher turnover was consistently associated with lower quality of care.

Early child care food intakes on child-care days more closely align to Dietary Guidelines for Americans than intakes on non-child-care days.

The Abt-led Study of Nutrition and Activity in Child Care Settings suggests room to improve provision of opportunities for physical activity during child care.

This appendix discusses common methodology used in evaluations of nine programs that were part of the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education project.