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
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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
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A nation of frustrated home-movers
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A nation of frustrated home-movers
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A nation of frustrated home-movers