Investigating the role of social preferences in health providers' decisions in South Africa.

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This MRC/ESRC post-doctoral fellowship will provide for the publication of a series of papers on the determinants of nurses‘ career choices in South Africa, and the expected effects of some policy interventions to attract them to rural posts. Quantitative in nature, these papers will address economic questions as well as policy-relevant ones. The results of this research will also be disseminated directly to policy-makers and the public through a combination of presentations at professional meetings and workshops, face-to-face meetings, distribution of policy briefs and posting on relevant websites. The research should ultimately contribute to improving health outcomes in medically underserved populations, by providing insight into the design of efficient policies to increase nursing coverage. A final goal of the fellowship will be to produce a research proposal to look at the role of altruism and other incentives in the decisions made by doctors in their relationship to their patients. The production of this proposal will be supported by a series of training modules in theoretical and empirical research methods, and the development of a small pilot project destined to test some possible tools.