When the Saints Go Marching Out: Long-Term Outcomes for Student Evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Abstract
I examine long-term academic performance and college going for students affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Students who are forced to switch schools due to the hurricanes experience sharp declines in test scores in the first year following the hurricanes. However, by the third and fourth years after the disaster, evacuees displaced from Orleans Parish see a 0.18 standard deviation improvement in scores. Gains are concentrated among students initially in the lowest quintiles of the test score distribution. Katrina evacuees do not show gains in college going relative to earlier cohorts from their same pre-hurricane high schools. (JEL I20, Q54, R23).
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Studies of school days lost due to other causes are mixed-some find durable effects and spillovers to adult earnings, while others report a fadeout of effects over time.
“Studies of school days lost due to other causes are mixed—some find durable effects and spillovers to adult earnings (59, 60), while others report a fadeout of effects over time (61, 62).”
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- Authors
- Sacerdote, B.
- Affiliations
- Dartmouth College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sacerdote, Bruce
- ORCID
- Sacerdote, Bruce
- Venue
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2012-01-01
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 109-135
- ISSN
- 1945-7782 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-7790
- OpenAlex
- W1980805044
- Cited by
- 181
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 32.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Economic Journal Applied Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
- Keywords
- Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, academic performance, test scores, college enrollment, college-going, long-term outcomes, New Orleans, Orleans Parish
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