Like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia's human resource problems are impeding progress towards global health targets. These include difficulties of attracting health workers into public service employment, retaining them, and ensuring an equitable distribution between urban...

The extent to which removing user fees for health care in developing countries improves population health rests, in part, on how behavioural responses vary across individuals with different health needs. Using data from a randomised experiment of free care in Ghana and a measure of baseline...