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

这一MRC/ESRC博士后奖学金将用于出版一系列关于南非护士职业选择的决定因素的论文，以及吸引他们进入农村岗位的一些政策干预的预期效果。在数量上，这些论文将讨论经济问题和与政策相关的问题。这项研究的结果还将通过在专业会议和讲习班上作介绍、面对面会议、分发政策简报和在相关网站上张贴等方式直接向决策者和公众传播。这项研究最终应该有助于改善医疗服务不足人群的健康结果，为设计有效的政策以扩大护理覆盖面提供洞察力。该奖学金的最终目标将是制定一项研究提案，研究利他主义和其他激励因素在医生与患者的关系中所做决定中的作用。这项提案的提出将得到一系列理论和经验研究方法培训模块的支持，并将开发一个小型试点项目，以测试一些可能的工具。

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.