Birgitta Rabe Professor of Economics, University of Essex
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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:
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COVID19 and educational inequalities
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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
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Migration and residential mobility
Latest Blog Posts
Publications
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Linked education data
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School quality and parental investments into children
Birgitta Rabe, Ellen Greaves, Imran Rasul, et al.
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Evaluating a demand-side approach to expanding free preschool education
Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Kirstine Hansen, et al.
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The impact of free, universal pre-school education on maternal labour supply
Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.
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Productivity of school expenditure: Differences across pupils from diverse backgrounds
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Who saves for retirement?
Mark L. Bryan, Birgitta Rabe, James Lloyd, et al.
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The effect of school resources on test scores in England
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Who saves for retirement?
Mark L. Bryan, Birgitta Rabe, James Lloyd, et al.
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Estimating the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child outcomes
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Estimating the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child outcomes
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Estimating the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child outcomes
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Inequality in pupils' educational attainment: how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?
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Differences in Opportunities? Wage, unemployment, and house-price effects on migration
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Differences in Opportunities? Wage, unemployment, and house-price effects on migration
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Differences in opportunities? Wage, unemployment and house-price effects on migration
Media
Displaying media publications 31 - 45 of 76 in total
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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
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Poor bright girls left behind in class, school spending study shows
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Research resources report: evaluating a demand-side approach to expanding free pre-school education
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Free childcare for 3 year olds: no long term benefits for child development
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Benefits of free nursery education 'not lasting'
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England’s free nursery places deliver no long-term benefits, say studies
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Free childcare for 3-year-olds: no long term benefits for child development
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Research questions value of free childcare for three-year-olds
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ESRC small grants are back, how can you win one?
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Greater Government support needed for breastfeeding
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Who saves for retirement?
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Why breast is best. With research indicating that breastfeeding could increase educational attainment, parents should more seriously consider infant nourishment
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Coalition steps in to prop up housing market
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Up to nine in ten people who want to move are stuck