ArticlePopulation and environment2017
Post-Disaster Fertility: Hurricane Katrina and the Changing Racial Composition of New Orleans.
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- Health Disparities in the Aftermath of Flood Events: A Review of Physical and Mental Health Outcomes with Methodological Considerations in the USA.Current environmental health reports · 2024Review
- Unequal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women's fertility preferences: Evidence from a longitudinal cohort in the United States.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Racial Disparities in Climate Change-Related Health Effects in the United States.Current environmental health reports · 2022Review
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- Life After Loss: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality Exposure and Unintended Fertility.Demography · 2022Article
- The impact of Hurricane Katrina, a major natural disaster, on assisted reproductive outcomes through an analysis of 451,848 ART cycles.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- How Nearby Homicides Affect Young Women's Pregnancy Desires: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment.Demography · 2021Article
- Putting People into Dynamic Places: The Importance of Specific Contexts in Understanding Demographic Responses to Changes in the Natural Environment.Population and environment · 2021Article
- The Paradoxical Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Births and Adverse Birth Outcomes.American journal of public health · 2020Article
- Climate Shocks Constrain Human Fertility in Indonesia.World development · 2019Article
- Learning From Natural Experiments to Accelerate Demographic Research on Climate-Related Threats to Human Populations.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Climate changeArticle
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Abstract
Large-scale climate events can have enduring effects on population size and composition. Natural disasters affect population fertility through multiple mechanisms, including displacement, demand for children, and reproductive care access. Fertility effects, in turn, influence the size and composition of new birth cohorts, extending the reach of climate events across generations. We study these processes in New Orleans during the decade spanning Hurricane Katrina. We combine census data, ACS data, and vital statistics data to describe fertility in New Orleans and seven comparison cities. Following Katrina, displacement contributed to a 30% decline in birth cohort size. Black fertility fell, and remained 4% below expected values through 2010. By contrast, white fertility increased by 5%. The largest share of births now occurs to white women. These fertility differences-beyond migration-driven population change-generate additional pressure on the renewal of New Orleans as a city in which the black population is substantially smaller in the disaster's wake.
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