Birgitta Rabe @rabe-b.bsky.social

📣📣📣Job Alert 📣📣📣 Come work with me on children’s health and human capital! @iseressex @MiSoC_Essex @Uni_of_Essex 📆2 year Post-Doc, start Oct 2025 📝Apply by 23 March 🔗More info: tinyurl.com/y54tuds3, or contact me. Join us at Essex! Please share👋

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 4-year postdoc position to work on my ERC project HARSH - Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting. 📍 Dep. of Economics @DSE_Unibo, Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹 📅 Deadline: March 14, 2025 💡 Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11421 #econtwitter #econjobmarket #ejm

Great talk today by Samuel Lado in our @iseressex lunchtime seminar. Children in Barcelona’s means-tested lunch clubs do better in Catalan - likely because they spend more time socialising with proficient speakers. @ayllonsara @MiSoC_Essex

Great inaugural SEHO session at #ASSA2025. Presented on mental health effects of parenting (with @JoBlanden, @claire_l_crawf, @LauraFumagall17).

This week's TOTC has opportunity hoarding, cheese hoarding, free school meals, evaluating AI, inefficient tax breaks, and the past & present of global trade. Something for everyone? Featuring work by @AngusHolford, @rabe_b, @chalmermagne, @B3fuss. resolutionfoundation.org/comment/cheese…

Health economists, consider applying to this workshop held in Oxford 28-29 May 2025! Very happy to be giving a keynote and participating in the event. @iseressex

Excited to launch a new project with @AngusHolford today, looking at how providing free breakfast in school affects •Attainment •Absences/punctuality •Bodyweight •Mental health More details here: tinyurl.com/4rp3dn5v Thanks @NuffieldFound @iseressex @MiSoC_Essex

🚀🌤️ New paper with @AngusHolford out in @JHealthEcon! Switching to universal free school meals reduces obesity in kids in England. Larger effects for younger children, but benefits seem cumulative over time. Paper here 👇 tinyurl.com/yc7y2azm @NuffieldFound @iseressex

@walidalkhalily Love this!

Thank you for the great time!! To the wholesomest crowd ever. „Enchanted to meet you“ #Corneliastreet #Vienna #wienliebe #ViennaTStheErasTour #TaylorSwiftErasTour #Corneliusgasse #swifties #Korneliusgasse

@JoBlanden Agree! What's that X doing on the floor...?

Favourite day of the year

Beautiful setting for the Empirical Health Economics Workshop in Pisa, a new venture into health economics for me #EHEW2024

Thanks so much to @DinandWebbink and Oliver Marie for hosting this year‘s #ESPE conference. Great venue and high-quality programme. Can’t wait for next year in Naples!

Emilia Del Bono kicking off this year’s #ESPE conference in Rotterdam. First session on child development was great, looking forward to the next few days! ⁦@MiSoC_Essex⁩

@DanielKamhoefer @EJ_RES Congrats, interesting paper Daniel!

Check out our new paper: Surveillance and Self-Control @EJ_RES 🥳 1/🧵 Nearly 30 years after Reunification, former communist East German residence have significantly higher self-control than their West German counterparts, despite of the length they lived in East Germany 👇

Excited to co-organise the 1st Workshop "Economics of Childhood Nutrition", 26-27 June, featuring Diane Schanzenbach (keynote) and a great lineup! @dwschanz @Gabri_EllaConti @TheIFS @RHULECON Register to join us: eepurl.com/iQzs1E Programme: ifs.org.uk/sites/default/…

@LuhrmannMelanie @dwschanz @Gabri_EllaConti @TheIFS @RHULECON Looks fantastic, really sorry to miss this!

Ethnic minority pupils do better in maths and worse in English when teachers assign grades, compared to taking blindly marked exams. This is not explained by characteristics or trends, suggesting stereotypes are at play.

Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades, our article is out now: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @LauraFumagall17 @hettieburn @iseressex Teachers seem to hold both positive and negative stereotypes towards ethnic minorities in England when they assign grades.

@ColinPGreen2 Looks great, sorry to miss it this year!

@enrico_rubolino @EJ_RES @CaterinaPavese1 Congratulations!