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Dr Birgitta Rabe Reader, University of Essex

Brabe
Email
brabe@essex.ac.uk
Telephone
01206 874594
Office
2N2.6.04
Personal homepage
https://sites.google.com/view/birgitta-rabe/
Curriculum vitae

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

    Displaying publications 31 - 45 of 60 in total

    1. Moving home: wishes, expectations, and reasons

      Birgitta Rabe

      1. Area Effects
      2. Migration
      3. Housing Market

    2. Who saves for retirement?

      Mark L. Bryan, James Lloyd, Birgitta Rabe, et al.

      1. Pensions
      2. Labour Market
      3. Savings And Assets

    3. Breastfeeding research

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

    4. Dual-earner migration. Earnings gains, employment and self-selection

      Birgitta Rabe

      1. Migration
      2. Labour Market
      3. Wages And Earnings

    5. Local environments

      Nick Buck and Birgitta Rabe

      1. Environmental Sociology
      2. Social Groups
      3. Area Effects
      4. Social Capital

    6. Estimating the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child outcomes

      Emilia Del Bono and Birgitta Rabe

    7. Estimating the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child outcomes

      Emilia Del Bono and Birgitta Rabe

    8. Estimating the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child outcomes

      Emilia Del Bono and Birgitta Rabe

    9. Geographical identifiers in Understanding Society Version 1

      Birgitta Rabe

      1. Geography
      2. Survey Methodology

    10. Inequality in pupils' educational attainment: how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?

      Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

      1. Education
      2. Child Development

    11. Residential mobility, quality of neighbourhood and life course events

      Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

      1. Migration
      2. Life Course Analysis

    12. Inequality in pupils' educational attainment: how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?

      Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

    13. Differences in opportunities? Wage, unemployment and house-price effects on migration

      Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

      1. Migration
      2. Economics

    14. Residential mobility, neighbourhood quality and life-course events

      Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

      1. Migration
      2. Life Course Analysis

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

      Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

    Media

    Displaying media publications 46 - 60 of 73 in total

    1. Breastfeeding - how to make the difference

    2. Employer contributions are key for pension savings

    3. Pensions: assessing the cost of auto-enrolment delay

    4. Researchers claim to debunk women/pensions savings myth

    5. £1000 blow to your pay packet in just 2 years as cost of living soars and incomes are squeezed

    6. Real take-home pay 'sees 5% fall'

    7. On the move

    8. Data on statistics described by researchers at University of Essex

    9. Data on statistics described by researchers at University of Essex

    10. Data on statistics described by researchers at University of Essex

    11. Research looks into what makes people move

    12. To move or not to move, it's up to her

    13. Women call shots on moving house

    14. Women hold sway on house move decisions

    15. Women call shots on location

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