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 31 - 45 of 76 in total

1. Funding for poorer pupils helps more boys than girls, study shows

   Media - 23 Nov 2014

2. Funding for poorer pupils helps more boys than girls, study shows

   Media - 23 Nov 2014

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

   Media - 23 Nov 2014

4. Research resources report: evaluating a demand-side approach to expanding free pre-school education

   Media - 11 Nov 2014

5. Free childcare for 3 year olds: no long term benefits for child development

   Media - 22 Oct 2014

6. Benefits of free nursery education 'not lasting'

   Media - 22 Oct 2014

7. England’s free nursery places deliver no long-term benefits, say studies

   Media - 22 Oct 2014

8. Free childcare for 3-year-olds: no long term benefits for child development

   Media - 22 Oct 2014

9. Research questions value of free childcare for three-year-olds

   Media - 22 Oct 2014

10. ESRC small grants are back, how can you win one?

    Media - 23 Oct 2013

11. Greater Government support needed for breastfeeding

    Media - 09 Apr 2013

12. Who saves for retirement?

    Media - 19 Nov 2012

13. Why breast is best. With research indicating that breastfeeding could increase educational attainment, parents should more seriously consider infant nourishment

    Media - 19 Nov 2012

14. Coalition steps in to prop up housing market

    Media - 12 Mar 2012

15. Up to nine in ten people who want to move are stuck

    Media - 07 Mar 2012