Dr Birgitta Rabe Senior Research Fellow, University of Essex

Email

brabe@essex.ac.uk

Telephone

01206 874594

Office

2N2.6.04

Personal homepage

https://sites.google.com/view/birgitta-rabe/

Research Interests

I am an economist interested in applied research in education, family and labour economics. Some of my current and recent work includes

• Early child development: the effect of breastfeeding on cognitive child outcomes; free child care and child attainment
• Education and schools: effects of school resources on school attainment; sibling spillover effects in school achievement; interactions between school quality and parental investments
• Child care and maternal labour supply
• Migration and residential mobility

I am Topic Champion for education, family and data linkage on Understanding Society. Linked education records for Understanding Society are available, see here.

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1. Differences in opportunities? Wage, unemployment and house-price effects on migration

   Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

   Conference Paper, BHPS-2009 Conference: the 2009 British Household Panel Survey Research Conference, 9-11 July 2009, Colchester, UK - 2009
   1. Migration
   2. Housing Market