Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees. NBER Working Paper No. 15291.

By Scott A. Imberman, Adriana D. Kugler, Bruce I. Sacerdote. 2009

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Effects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes (2020, unknown): “It also connects to research on the economic and public policy implications of large scale disasters (Imberman et al., 2012; Michel-Kerjan, 2010; Vigdor, 2008).”
The effect of school closings on student achievement (2014, unknown): “For instance, the peer effects generated by Katrina evacuees in Houston, as studied by Imberman et al. (2012), are likely different thanthosegeneratedbyclosingschoolsandshiftingstudentstoanother school within the same school district.”
The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools (2011, background): “Examples include Hoxby (2000), Hanushek, Kain, Markman, and Rivkin (2003), Angrist and Lang (2004), Hoxby and Weingarth (2006), Lavy, Silva, and Weinhardt (2012), Ammermueller and Pischke (2009), Imberman, Kugler, and Sacerdote (2012), and Carrell, Sacerdote, and West (2012).”
Input Specificity and the Propagation of Idiosyncratic Shocks in Production Networks (2016, methodology): “(1)Natural disasters have already been used in prior work to instrument for school displacement (Imberman et al., 2012), positive local demand shocks (Bernile et al.”
Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects (2018, background): “Mian and Sufi (2011), House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the US Household Leverage Crisis. Tables 2 and 3. In Regression Equation (1), the dependent variable is the change in homeowner leverage from 2002 to 2006 for individual i living in zip code z in MSA m, and the dependent variable i”
Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far? (2011, background): “Burke and Sass (2008), Lavy, Paserman, and Schlosser (2007) and most recently Imberman, Kugler, and Sacerdote (2009) reinforce these findings.”
School Context and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement (2012, background): “The most persuasive recent studies use natural experiments to estimate the impact of changes in class composition on outcomes (e.g., Imberman, Kugler, and Sacerdote 2009).”
Social Networks and the Decision to Insure (2015, methodology): “…policy reforms (in recent years, notable reforms concerned production subsidies, health insurance, and pen-sions) include holding village meetings to announce and explain the policy and publishing individual villagers’ purchase information and outcomes, such as the payouts for health insurance.”
Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston (2016, unknown): “2Cowen (2011c) gives a history of RSD. 3See Vigdor (2007), Groen and Polivka (2008), Sacerdote (2012), Imberman et al. (2012), and Deryugina et al. (2014) for analyses of the effects of Katrina on outcomes related to education and the labor market.”
School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime Evidence from the end of busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (2014, background): “A number of studies find support for the notion that concentrations of minority males increase crime in the aggregate (Cook and Ludwig 2006; Carrell and Hoekstra 2010; Bifulco, Fletcher and Ross 2011; Deming 2011; Imberman et al. 2012).”