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

Latest Blog Posts

Publications

Displaying all 3 publications

1. Understanding Society – a geographical profile of respondents

   Jakob Petersen and Birgitta Rabe

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2013-01 - 14 Feb 2013 - download  
   1. Geography
   2. Demography
   3. Survey Methodology

2. Geographical identifiers in Understanding Society Version 1

   Birgitta Rabe

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2011-01 - 09 Mar 2011 - download  
   1. Geography
   2. Survey Methodology

3. Understanding Society. Some preliminary results from the Wave 1 Innovation Panel

   Jonathan Burton, Heather Laurie, S.C. Noah Uhrig, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2008-03 - 01 Dec 2008 - download  

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