The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns

By T. Deryugina, Laura Kawano, Steven D. Levitt. 2014

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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How do banks react to catastrophic events? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina (2019, positive): “Deryugina et al. (2014) show that Katrina victims’ face an initial negative wage income shock one year after the disaster but also that the gap in wage income disappears two years after the storm.”
The Distribution of Environmental Damages (2019, neutral): “…populations might select into different climates based on their preferences (Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2001; Olmstead and Rhode 2011; Hornbeck 2012a; Albouy et al. 2016; Deryugina, Kawano, and Levitt 2018), it is challenging to measure the causal effects of natural endowments directly.”
Consequences of forced migration: A survey of recent findings (2019, positive): “Deryugina et al. (2018) show that hurricane Katrina in 2005 had large and persistent effects on location choice”
Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston (2016, neutral): “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.”
The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data (2020, neutral): “Yet, our estimates are much smaller than those arising from case studies of the nation’s most extreme events, including Hurricane Katrina and the 1927 Great Mississippi Flood, both of which led to 12 percentage point increases in out-migration (Deryugina et al. 2018; Hornbeck and Naidu 2014).”