Birgitta Rabe Professor of Economics, University of Essex
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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:
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COVID19 and educational inequalities
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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
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Migration and residential mobility
Latest Blog Posts
Publications
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Evaluating a demand-side approach to expanding free preschool education
Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Kirstine Hansen, et al.
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The impact of free, universal pre-school education on maternal labour supply
Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.
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Clever elder children spur on siblings
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Spending it wisely: how can schools use their resources to help poorer puplis
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Sibling spillover effects in school achievement
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The impact of free, universal pre-school education on maternal labour supply
Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.
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Evaluating a demand-side approach to expanding free preschool education
J. Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, K. Hansen, et al.
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The impact of free early education for 3 year olds in England
Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.
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School inputs and skills: complementarity and self-productivity
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School inputs and skills: complementarity and self-productivity
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Inequality in pupils' test scores: how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?
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Understanding Society – a geographical profile of respondents
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Productivity of school expenditure: Differences across pupils from diverse backgrounds
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Differences in opportunities? Wage, employment and house-price effects on migration
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Breastfeeding and child cognitive outcomes: evidence from a hospital-based breastfeeding support policy
Media
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New evidence shows how school closures hit children’s mental health hard
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Children will need further help with mental health despite return of schools, study warns
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Stressed pupils 'are more likely to bully and fight': Teachers could face an increase in bad behaviour in class after effect of pandemic on children's mental health, study warns
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Back to school: 'It's nice to see my friends'
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Schools return in England: Boris Johnson hails first steps to freedom
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School closures negatively affected children's mental health, research suggests
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Free school dinners ‘led to fall in childhood obesity rates’
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O brother, where art thou?
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30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly
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30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly
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A cautionary tale for politicians pushing universal preschool
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Evidence of free hours’ benefits is lacking
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Free nursery places at age three 'do not boost a child's education'
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Free childcare 'has made no improvement in primary school exam results', research shows
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Free pre-school education: evidence of the impact on child outcomes in primary school