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The Performance of Health Workers in Ethiopia : Results from Qualitative Research

Lindelow, Magnus; Serneels, Pieter; Lemma, Teigist - 2012

of health services in Ethiopia, a country with some of the poorest health outcomes in the world. It describes performance …

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Medical Migration : What Can We Learn from the UK's Perspective?

Rutten, Martine - 2012

This paper seeks to determine the macro-economic impacts of migration of skilled medical personnel from a receiving country's perspective. The resource allocation issues are explored in theory, by developing an extension of the Rybczynski theorem in a low-dimension Heckscher-Ohlin framework, and...

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For Public Service or Money : Understanding Geographical Imbalances in the Health Workforce

Serneels, Pieter; Lindel??w, Magnus; Garcia-Montalvo, Jose - 2012

medical students in Ethiopia. Analyzing data obtained from contingent valuation questions, they find that household …

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The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries

Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey; Leonard, Kenneth - 2012

This paper provides an overview of recent work on quality measurement of medical care and its correlates in four low and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe two methods-testing doctors and watching doctors-that are relatively easy to implement...

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Patient Satisfaction, Doctor Effort and Interview Location : Evidence from Paraguay

Das, Jishnu; Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2012

To examine the relationship between patient satisfaction and doctor performance, the authors observed 2,271 interactions between 292 doctors and their patients in 98 clinics and hospitals in Paraguay and conducted an exit-survey with the same patients as they left the clinic. For a subsample of...

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Money for Nothing : The Dire Straits of Medical Practice in Delhi, India

Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey - 2012

The quality of medical care received by patients varies for two reasons: differences in doctors' competence or differences in doctors' incentives. Using medical vignettes, the authors evaluated competence for a sample of doctors in Delhi. One month later, they observed the same doctors in their...

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Sweetening the Carrot : Motivating Public Physicians for Better Performance

Garcia-Prado, Ariadna - 2012

It is widely observed that many physicians working in public health facilities do not put in the required effort and … time in their jobs. At the same time, many public physicians remain highly motivated, working long hours for little … improve the inoptimal performance of some physicians without compromising the effort of those already motivated. This paper …

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Which Doctor? Combining Vignettes and Item Response to Measure Doctor Quality

Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey - 2013

The authors develop a method in which vignettes-a battery of questions for hypothetical cases-are evaluated with item response theory to create a metric for doctor quality. The method allows a simultaneous estimation of quality and validation of the test instrument that can be used for further...

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Household Responses to Shocks in Rural Ethiopia

Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2015

the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land …

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Exploring Carbon Pricing in Developing Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis in Ethiopia

Benitez, Pablo; Medhin, Haileselassie; Tamru, Seneshaw; … - 2019

greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum fuels and kerosene in Ethiopia. The carbon tax starts at $5 per ton of carbon dioxide in …

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