Birgitta Rabe Professor of Economics, University of Essex

Email

brabe@essex.ac.uk

Telephone

01206 874594

Office

2N2.6.07

Personal homepage

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

Research Interests

I am Professor of Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, interested in applied research in education, family and labour economics. I am Co-Investigator of the ESRC Research Cente on Micro-social Change and of Understanding Society. Current and recent work includes:

• COVID19 and educational inequalities

• COVID19 school closures, mental health and labour supply

• Childhood obesity: impact of free lunches and of weight report cards

• Early child development: the effects of breastfeeding and of childcare

• Education and schools: effects of school resources, sibling spillover effects, interactions between school quality and parental investments
• Childcare and maternal labour supply

• Migration and residential mobility

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Publications

Displaying all 12 publications

1. Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes

   Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Kirstine Hansen, et al.

   Journal Article, Journal of Population Economics - Apr 2022
   1. Education
   2. Child Development
   3. Public Policy
   4. Caregiving

2. Going universal. The impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes

   Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

   Journal Article, Journal of Public Economics Plus - Apr 2022
   1. Education
   2. Child Development
   3. Public Policy
   4. Health

3. Does more free childcare help parents work more?

   Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

   Journal Article, Labour Economics - Jan 2022
   1. Education
   2. Labour Market
   3. Economics
   4. Public Policy
   5. Caregiving

4. Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

   Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

   Journal Article, Journal of Applied Econometrics - Jun 2019
   1. Education
   2. Child Development
   3. Households

5. The effect of school spending on student achievement: addressing biases in value-added models

   Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

   Journal Article, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) - Feb 2018
   1. Education
   2. Economics

6. Universal pre-school education: the case of public funding with private provision

   Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Sandra McNally, et al.

   Journal Article, Economic Journal - May 2016
   1. Education
   2. Child Development
   3. Economics

7. Inequality in pupils' test scores: how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?

   Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

   Journal Article, Economica - Apr 2013
   1. Area Effects
   2. Education
   3. Child Development

8. Differences in opportunities? Wage, employment and house-price effects on migration

   Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

   Journal Article, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics - Dec 2012
   1. Migration
   2. Economics

9. Dual-earner migration. Earnings gains, employment and self-selection

   Birgitta Rabe

   Journal Article, Journal of Population Economics - 2011
   1. Migration
   2. Labour Market
   3. Wages And Earnings

10. Residential mobility, quality of neighbourhood and life course events

    Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

    Journal Article, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) - 2010
    1. Migration
    2. Life Course Analysis

11. Occupational pensions, wages and job mobility in Germany

    Birgitta Rabe

    Journal Article, Scottish Journal of Political Economy - 2007
    1. Pensions
    2. Labour Market

12. The role of firm pensions for job change in Germany

    Birgitta Rabe

    Journal Article, Schmollers Jahrbuch - 2005

Media

Displaying media publications 16 - 30 of 76 in total

1. Universal benefits? What effect does early education have on childhood development and career choices?

   Media - Jan 2016

2. Free nursery places have 'no educational benefit', research shows

   Media - 30 Mar 2015

3. Free nursery places 'make no academic difference'

   Media - 30 Mar 2015

4. 'Little impact' from nursery places

   Media - 30 Mar 2015

5. 'Little impact' from nursery places

   Media - 30 Mar 2015

6. 'Little impact' from nursery places

   Media - 30 Mar 2015

7. 'Little impact' from nursery places

   Media - 30 Mar 2015

8. Research - report - Spending it wisely: how can schools use their resources to help poorer pupils?

   Media - 20 Jan 2015

9. Clever elder children spur on siblings

   Media - 05 Jan 2015

10. Clever elder children spur on siblings

    Media - 05 Jan 2015

11. Why being a younger sibling makes you more successful

    Media - 05 Jan 2015

12. How firstborns can raise a sibling's game

    Media - 04 Jan 2015

13. Firstborns' exam success can help boost their younger siblings performance by forcing them to raise their game thanks to a spillover effect says study

    Media - 04 Jan 2015

14. How firstborns can raise a sibling's game

    Media - 03 Jan 2015

15. Poor bright girls left behind in class, school spending study shows

    Media - 24 Nov 2014