Dr Birgitta Rabe Reader, University of Essex
- 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.
Latest Blog Posts
Publications
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Sibling spillover effects in school achievement
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The effect of school spending on student achievement: addressing biases in value-added models
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Universal pre-school education: the case of public funding with private provision
Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Sandra McNally, et al.
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Inequality in pupils' test scores: how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?
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Differences in opportunities? Wage, employment and house-price effects on migration
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Dual-earner migration. Earnings gains, employment and self-selection
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Residential mobility, quality of neighbourhood and life course events
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Occupational pensions, wages and job mobility in Germany
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The role of firm pensions for job change in Germany
Media
Displaying media publications 16 - 30 of 74 in total
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Free nursery places 'make no academic difference'
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'Little impact' from nursery places
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'Little impact' from nursery places
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'Little impact' from nursery places
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'Little impact' from nursery places
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Research - report - Spending it wisely: how can schools use their resources to help poorer pupils?
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Clever elder children spur on siblings
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Clever elder children spur on siblings
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Why being a younger sibling makes you more successful
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How firstborns can raise a sibling's game
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Firstborns' exam success can help boost their younger siblings performance by forcing them to raise their game thanks to a spillover effect says study
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How firstborns can raise a sibling's game
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Poor bright girls left behind in class, school spending study shows
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Funding for poorer pupils helps more boys than girls, study shows
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Funding for poorer pupils helps more boys than girls, study shows