Language is at the heart of improving foundational learning outcomes. AIR, in collaboration with the Gates Foundation, is developing an empirically grounded and politically feasible framework to support bilingual and multilingual foundational literacy and numeracy outcomes across low- and middle-income countries. ...
The Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse is designed to be a source of information for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers seeking evidence to help them make informed decisions related to employment-focused interventions for low-income job seekers. AIR is supporting the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse 2.0 project to improve its functionality. ...
Cody Bock specializes in designing and conducting rigorous, participatory qualitative research with vulnerable and conflict-affected populations. She is skilled at conducting systematic literature reviews and evidence synthesis, qualitative data collection and analysis, the development of conceptual frameworks, stakeholder engagement, and research dissemination on topics related to gender, migration, food security, ...
The Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program was designed to help unemployment insurance claimants return to work more quickly. The Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment Evidence Building Portfolio Project (RESEA EBPP) is building evidence on how RESEA and reemployment services speed UI claimants to reemployment. AIR is providing evaluation ...
The VETS Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot (ENPP) program provides one-on-one career assistance to transitioning service members and their spouses to help them secure meaningful and lasting careers after separating from the military. AIR is supporting an evaluation of the ENPP program by conducting the evaluability assessment. ...
Administrative Data Research and Analysis (ADRA) studies are designed to build evidence on Department of Labor programs and policies and inform agency priorities by examining administrative data on a wide variety of topics. Since 2018, AIR has contributed to ADRA studies focused on unemployment insurance, machine learning, and construction safety ...
The government of Madagascar, with support from UNICEF and Le Fonds d’Innovation pour le Développement, has developed the Zara Mira program, which provides monthly cash transfers to children and pregnant women to improve human development and poverty indicators in three districts in southern Madagascar. AIR and its research partners are ...
The Kansas Department of Commerce received help from AIR to strengthen the capacity of state workforce system staff through targeted training on the design, delivery, and oversight of on-the-job training programs.
The literacy and numeracy scores of U.S. adults were lower in 2023 than in previous years, according to the report Highlights of the 2023 U.S. PIAAC Results, released in December 2024 by the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education.
Since 1946, AIR has worked diligently for the American people as a trusted government contractor and grantee. A nonpartisan social and behavioral science research organization, AIR has been committed to generating evidence that supports decision-making on programs and policies across 15 U.S. presidential administrations. ...
