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The Displaced New Orleans Residents Study

MPRC Director Michael Rendall is working with Faculty Associate Paul Torrens, Geography, to analyze social, economic, and health outcomes for New Orleanians
The Displaced New Orleans Residents Study

Paul Torrens, Geographic Sciences

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, causing long-term displacement from New Orleanians’ pre-hurricane residences of an unprecedented scale. The main objective of this project, funded by NICHD through the RAND Corp., is to describe and analyze the whereabouts and social, economic, and health outcomes of residents of New Orleans in August 2005 up to four years following Hurricane Katrina. The team is analyzing public-use and restricted-access data from the Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey (DNORS) and public-use and restricted-access, Hurricane Katrina supplement data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Because the DNORS and PSID both cover the 2005 to 2009 period, the PSID provides a comparison group. A second objective is to create a cleaned set of location variables in the DNORS that can be used by both the present research team and other researchers using the DNORS data.

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