Dr Birgitta Rabe Senior Research Fellow, University of Essex

Email

brabe@essex.ac.uk

Telephone

01206 874594

Office

2N2.6.04

Personal homepage

https://sites.google.com/view/birgitta-rabe/

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.

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Publications

Displaying publications 31 - 45 of 58 in total

1. Breastfeeding research

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

   Interview - 02 Nov 2011

2. 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

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

   Emilia Del Bono and Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, European Association of Labour Economists Conference - 2011

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

   Emilia Del Bono and Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, European Society for Population Economics Conference - 2011

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

   Emilia Del Bono and Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, Health and Human Capital - 2011

6. Local environments

   Nick Buck and Birgitta Rabe

   Book Chapter, Understanding Society: early findings from the first wave of the UK's household longitudinal study, Ch. 11 - 2011
   1. Environmental Sociology
   2. Social Groups
   3. Area Effects
   4. Social Capital

7. Geographical identifiers in Understanding Society Version 1

   Birgitta Rabe

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2011-01 - 09 Mar 2011 - download  
   1. Geography
   2. Survey Methodology

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

   Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2010-26 - 22 Jul 2010 - download  
   1. Education
   2. Child Development

9. 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

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

    Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

    Conference Paper, European Society for Population Economics Conference - 2010

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

    Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

    ISER Working Paper Series, 2010-05 - 22 Feb 2010 - download  
    1. Migration
    2. Economics

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

    Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

    ISER Working Paper Series, 2009-28 - 17 Sep 2009 - download  
    1. Migration
    2. Life Course Analysis

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

    Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

    Conference Paper, European Regional Science Association Conference - 25 Aug 2009

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

    Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

    Conference Paper, European Society for Population Economics Conference - 11 Jun 2009

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

    Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

    Conference Paper, BHPS-2009 Conference: the 2009 British Household Panel Survey Research Conference, 9-11 July 2009, Colchester, UK - 2009
    1. Migration
    2. Housing Market

Media

Displaying media publications 1 - 15 of 69 in total

1. O brother, where art thou?

   Media - 06 Dec 2017

2. 30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

   Media - 02 Dec 2016

3. 30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

   Media - 01 Dec 2016

4. A cautionary tale for politicians pushing universal preschool

   Media - 20 Jun 2016

5. Evidence of free hours’ benefits is lacking

   Media - 13 Jun 2016

6. Free nursery places at age three 'do not boost a child's education'

   Media - 25 May 2016

7. Free childcare 'has made no improvement in primary school exam results', research shows

   Media - 24 May 2016

8. Free pre-school education: evidence of the impact on child outcomes in primary school

   Media - May 2016

9. Universal benefits? What effect does early education have on childhood development and career choices?

   Media - Jan 2016

10. Free nursery places have 'no educational benefit', research shows

    Media - 30 Mar 2015

11. Free nursery places 'make no academic difference'

    Media - 30 Mar 2015

12. 'Little impact' from nursery places

    Media - 30 Mar 2015

13. 'Little impact' from nursery places

    Media - 30 Mar 2015

14. 'Little impact' from nursery places

    Media - 30 Mar 2015

15. 'Little impact' from nursery places

    Media - 30 Mar 2015