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Title: Breakup of New Orleans Households after Hurricane Katrina

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: The resilience of family and household structure to displacement-inducing natural disaster isinvestigated. Households from a survey that traces the outcomes of a population-representativesample of households in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina are compared statistically tohouseholds from a national sample. Household breakup following Katrina was extremely highamong extended-family households, exacerbated by the high prevalence of extended-familyhouseholds in New Orleans before the hurricane. While the highest rates of household breakupoccurred among households whose residences were made uninhabitable by the Hurricane and itsaftermath, city-wide impacts on household breakup were found.

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Authors: Rendall, Michael S.

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Publication Number: WR-703

Institution: RAND

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration, Other

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