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A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...
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This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial set to evaluate the effects of a pay-for-performance scheme that rewarded community health worker cooperatives for the utilization of five targeted maternal and child health services by their communities. The experiment took place...
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In low- and middle-income countries, scaling essential health interventions to achieve health development targets is constrained by the lack of skilled health professionals to deliver services. This paper takes a labor market approach to project future health workforce demand based on an...
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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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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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The quality of medical care received by patients varies for two reasons: Differences in doctors' competence or differences in doctors' incentives. Using medical vignettes, we evaluated competence for a sample of doctors in Delhi. One month later, we observed the same doctors in their practice....
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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several labor market transitions across space in urban Ethiopia. First, the town population size and the share of workers with …
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the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social …
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generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both …
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