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 publications 61 - 67 of 67 in total

1. Dual-Earner Migration in Britain: earnings gains, employment, and self-selection

   Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, European Society for Population Economics Conference - 23 Jun 2006

2. Differences in Opportunities? Wage, unemployment, and house-price effects on migration

   Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

   Conference Paper, Joint Empirical Social Science Seminar - 03 May 2006

3. Occupational pensions, wages, and job mobility in Germany

   Birgitta Rabe

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2006-04 - 01 Feb 2006 - download  
   1. Pensions
   2. Labour Market

4. Dual-earner migration in Britain: earnings gains, employment, and self-selection

   Birgitta Rabe

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2006-01 - 01 Jan 2006 - download  
   1. Migration
   2. Labour Market
   3. Wages And Earnings

5. Dual-Earner Migration in Britain: earnings gains, employment, and self-selection

   Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, Policy Studies Institute Seminar - 15 Dec 2005

6. Dual-Earner Migration in Britain: earnings gains, employment, and self-selection

   Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, Joint Empirical Social Science Seminar - 19 Oct 2005

7. 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