Nearly 10 percent of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes, and up to 30 percent of those will develop Type 2 diabetes as they age. Yet many of these women do not check their blood glucose levels as often as they should. AIR researchers studied why women at high risk avoid testing.
African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to go into debt while earning a doctorate in the sciences than their white and Asian counterparts, according to a new issue brief by experts at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). The disparity is largest for African Americans, who are twice as ...
Join AIR at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference on Friday, April 12 from 9-10:30 a.m. ET for a panel discussion with researchers, research funders, and industry leaders who are investing resources in equity-focused, data-driven initiatives, programs, and interventions that better connect educational attainment to workforce outcomes. ...
Exposure to toxic substances pose a serious health risk for Americans. AIR collaborated with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to develop a strategic plan and to create a risk communication training course to prepare health communication specialists for managing risk communication activities in the field. ...
Thomas de Hoop is a development economist, with twelve years of experience designing, implementing, and leading mixed-methods impact evaluations and systematic reviews. His work has primarily revolved around South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Women with STEM Ph.D.’s are likelier to start their careers in academia, but their male peers get more of the faculty appointments at research institutions, according to a new analysis by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) that explores the impact gender and family may have on the careers of ...
NAEP results are Rorschach Tests for policy wonks—a golden chance for free-association policy speculation. Small fluctuations in average scores on NAEP give rise to big explanations. Forget the quibbling over tiny differences in test scores; it’s time to rebuild schools on evidence-based, comprehensive policies that have been shown to work ...
Programs designed to combat child labor store information on the social and economic services they provide their participants and beneficiaries. As part of a series of impact evaluations sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs, IMPAQ conducted five randomized controlled trial evaluations of programs to ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.