Dr Birgitta Rabe Reader, 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 60 in total

1. Moving home: wishes, expectations, and reasons

   Birgitta Rabe

   Book Chapter, Understanding Society: findings 2012 - 28 Feb 2012
   1. Area Effects
   2. Migration
   3. Housing Market

2. Who saves for retirement?

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

   Report - Dec 2011
   1. Pensions
   2. Labour Market
   3. Savings And Assets

3. Breastfeeding research

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

   Interview - 02 Nov 2011

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

   Emilia Del Bono and Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, Health and Human Capital - 2011

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

Media

Displaying media publications 1 - 15 of 73 in total

1. Good Ofsted rating can mean parents become complacent

   Media - 20 May 2019

2. Why a good Ofsted report can be bad for GCSE results

   Media - 19 May 2019

3. GCSE grades 'drop' after successful Ofsted inspections

   Media - 19 May 2019

4. The negative impact of positive Ofsted ratings

   Media - 19 May 2019

5. O brother, where art thou?

   Media - 06 Dec 2017

6. 30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

   Media - 02 Dec 2016

7. 30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

   Media - 01 Dec 2016

8. A cautionary tale for politicians pushing universal preschool

   Media - 20 Jun 2016

9. Evidence of free hours’ benefits is lacking

   Media - 13 Jun 2016

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

    Media - 25 May 2016

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

    Media - 24 May 2016

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

    Media - May 2016

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

    Media - Jan 2016

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

    Media - 30 Mar 2015

15. Free nursery places 'make no academic difference'

    Media - 30 Mar 2015