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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: evidence from Ethiopia

Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010

Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...

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Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia

Serneels, Pieter; Montalvo, Jose G.; Pettersson, Gunilla; … - 2010

with those from an identical survey in Ethiopia to enable a two-country analysis. We find that health workers with higher …. The main Rwanda result for intrinsic motivation is strikingly similar to that obtained for Ethiopia and Rwanda together …

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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …

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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction: is sub-saharan Africa different?

Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2009

This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...

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A labor market approach to the crisis of health care professionals in Africa

Andalón, Mabel; Fields, Gary - 2011

This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a distributional challenge, a performance challenge, and a...

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The international migration of health professionals

Grignon, Michel; Owusu, Yaw; Sweetman, Arthur - 2012

Health workforce shortages in developed countries are perceived to be central drivers of health professionals' international migration, one ramification being negative impacts on developing nations' healthcare delivery. After a descriptive international overview, selected economic issues are...

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Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2008

cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia. …

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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009

We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...

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Testing the inverseness of fertility and labor supply: the case of Ethiopia

Solomon, Blen; Kimmel, Jean - 2009

We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …

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Wars and child health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict

Akresh, Richard; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2011

Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to …-scores, with the children in the war-instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffering more than the winning nation (Ethiopia …

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