Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Ethiopia and Rwanda
Pieter Serneels, Jose G Montalvo, Gunilla Pettersson, Tomas Lievens, Jean Damascene Butera & Aklilu Kidanu
Volume 88, Number 5, May 2010, 342-349
Table 1. Variable descriptions and summary statistics for Ethiopiaa (2005) and Rwandaa (2008) regression samples
| Variable | Description | Rwanda |
Ethiopia |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| RW | Rural reservation wage (2008 PPP$) | 1 711 | 786 | 620 | 279 | |
| HELPPOOR | Dummy variable. Indicates opportunity to help poor is most important job attribute | 0.05 | 0.23 | 0.24 | 0.43 | |
| HHEXP | Predicted parental household expenditure (2008 PPP$) | 14 158 | 14 051 | 4 985 | 1 750 | |
| TSCORE | Score on medical knowledge test | 0.33 | 0.12 | 0.49 | 0.12 | |
| FEMALE | Dummy variable. Indicates respondent is female | 0.59 | 0.49 | 0.36 | 0.48 | |
| AGE | Age of respondent (years) | 27 | 5 | 23 | 3 | |
| DISTANCE | Time (in minutes) to walk to school at age 6 | 36 | 29 | 30 | 26 | |
| ADVENTIST | Dummy variable. Indicates respondent is Adventist | 0.11 | 0.31 | NA | NA | |
| CATHOLIC | Dummy variable. Indicates respondent is Catholic | NA | NA | 0.09 | 0.28 | |
| PROTESTANT | Dummy variable. Indicates respondent is Protestant | NA | NA | 0.23 | 0.42 | |
| KIGALI | Dummy variable. Indicates respondent born in Kigali | 0.25 | 0.43 | NA | NA | |
| ADDIS | Dummy variable. Indicates respondent born in Addis Ababa | NA | NA | 0.25 | 0.44 | |
| OBLIGATION | Dummy variable. Indicates respondent's obligation to work or repay funding received | 0.62 | 0.49 | NA | NA | |
| RURWEXP | Dummy variable. Indicates respondent had rural work experience during training | 0.42 | 0.49 | NA | NA | |
| DOCTOR | Dummy variable. Indicates respondent is a medical student | 0.31 | 0.46 | 0.31 | 0.47 | |
| No. of observations | 222 | 270 | ||||
NA, not applicable; PPP$, purchasing power parity dollar; SD, standard deviation.
a The respective samples for Ethiopia and Rwanda consist of second- and third-year nursing students and medical students in their final year.