Selected papers
Provider behaviour
I use experimental methods (standardised patients, lab and field experiments) to understand how providers' decisions are shaped by financial and non-financial motives, with a view to improve quality and efficiency of care.
"Overconfident health workers provide lower quality healthcare”. (2019) with R. Kovac and J.Cairns, Journal of Economic Psychology
Physicians’ responses to financial and social incentives: a medically framed real effort experiment (2017) with D Blaauw, Social Science and Medicine, Apr;179:147-159
Pro-social preferences and Self-Selection into Jobs: Evidence from South African Nurses (2014) with D Blaauw, Journal of Economic Organisation and Behaviour, Vol 107, Part A, 136–152
Cost-effectiveness analysis of human resources policy interventions to address the shortage of nurses in rural South Africa, with D Blaauw and J Cairns, Social Science and Medicine 75(5): 801-806. Appendix
Modelling human resources policies with Markov models: an application to the South African nursing labour market (2012), with J Cairns, Health Care Management Science15(3): 270-282.
Patient behaviour
I use natural and field experiments to analyse what drive individual health-related behaviours, in particular the decision to adopt preventive measures and seek healthcare services.
Measuring patient trust: comparing measures from a survey and an economic experiment (2018) with R. Kovac and J.Cairns Health Economics 28(5):641-652
How effective and fair is user fee removal? Evidence from Zambia using a pooled synthetic control (2017) with A Lepine and A Le Nestour, Health Economics
Health service availability and health seeking behaviour in resource poor settings: evidence from Mozambique (2015), with L Anselmi and K Hanson, Health Economics Review, Dec;5(1):62
Assessing the Effects of Removing User Fees in Zambia and Niger, (2012) with H Barroy and N Palmer, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 17(1): 30-36.
The impact of user fees on access to health services in low and middle income countries – how strong is the evidence? (2008) with N Palmer WHO Bulletin 86 (11) 839-848.
Conditional cash transfers for improving the uptake of health interventions in low and middle income countries – a systematic review (2007) with A Haines and N Palmer JAMA 298(16), Oct 24-31.
Discrete Choice Experiments
When services (goods) are not yet available in the market, DCEs can help us understand what characteristics of these services people value more, and what trade-offs they are willing to make. In turn, this can inform the design of future services or interventions.
Framing and signaling effects of taxes on sugary drinks: a Discrete Choice Experiment among households in Great Britain with Cornelsen L, Quaife M, Smith R (2020) Health Economics
The use of specialty training to retain doctors in Malawi: A discrete choice experiment(2016) with K Mandeville, G Ulaya, A. Muula, L Dzowela and K Hanson. Social Science & Medicine, 169, p109-118
Determinants of the choice of GP practice registration in England: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment (2014) with B Erens and N Mays. Health Policy, 119(4):427-36
Investigating attribute non-attendance and its consequences with latent class models(2013), Health Economics, 22(5): 554-67.
Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas: a multicountry discrete choice experiment (2010), with D Blaauw, E Erasmus, N Pagaiya, V Tangcharoensathein, K Mullei K, J Wafula, C Goodman, M English. WHO Bulletin 88(5): 321-400.