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 4 publications

1. Clever elder children spur on siblings

   Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

   Interview - 05 Jan 2015

2. Breastfeeding research

   Emilia Del Bono, Birgitta Rabe, Maria Iacovou, et al.

   Interview - 02 Nov 2011

3. Cash for new breastfeeding study

   Emilia Del Bono, Maria Iacovou, and Birgitta Rabe

   Interview - circa 2009

4. Brestfeeding project most comprehensive study of its kind

   Emilia Del Bono, Maria Iacovou, and Birgitta Rabe

   Interview - 03 Apr 2009

Media

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1. Funding for study into benefits of breastfeeding

   Media - 06 Apr 2009

2. Breastfeeding research: most comprehensive study of its kind

   Media - 01 Apr 2009

3. Breastfeeding research: most comprehensive study of its kind

   Media - 31 Mar 2009

4. New study will look at effects of breastfeeding on children, mothers and employers

   Media - 31 Mar 2009

5. Benefits of free nursery education 'not lasting'

   Media -