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ArticleEnvironmental research, health : ERH2025

Disruption to test scores after hurricanes in the United States.

Gabriella Y Meltzer, G Brooke Anderson, Xicheng Xie, Joan A Casey, Joel Schwartz, Michelle L Bell, Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, Jared Fox, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Robbie M Parks

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Article in Environmental research, health : ERH, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Gabriella Y MeltzerDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6885-9730
G Brooke AndersonDepartment of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-9035
Xicheng XieDepartment of Biostatistics and Informatics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States of America.
Joan A CaseyDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4695
Joel SchwartzDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America.
Michelle L BellDepartment of Environmental Health, Yale University School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3965-1359
Yoshira Ornelas Van HorneEnvironmental Health Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
Jared FoxFox EduConsulting, Chevy Chase, MD, United States of America.
Marianthi-Anna KioumourtzoglouDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America.
Robbie M ParksDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7916-1717

Funding

True Metal fac coreP30ES009089 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Steven N. Chillrud · 1998 to 2026
$44.7M
Supplemental Training in Making Data FAIR and AI/ML ReadyT32ES007322 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Pam R Factor-Litvak, Allison Kupsco · 2000 to 2026
$12.1M
Identifying low dose measurement error corrected effects of multiple pollutants using causal modelingR01ES032418 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI SCHWARTZ, JOEL D · 2021 to 2024
$1.7M
Novel Assessments of the Health Impacts of Tropical CyclonesR00ES033742 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PARKS, ROBBIE M · 2023 to 2025
$911k
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES009089NIEHS NIH HHS R00 ES033742NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES032418NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007322
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantifying how hurricanes disrupt educational attainment is essential to evaluating the burden of climate-related disasters. Here, we examine the association between hurricane-force tropical cyclones and educational attainment among elementary and middle school students in all affected areas in the United States during the 2008/2009-2017/2018 school years. Educational performance was based on county-level average standardized test scores in math and reading/language arts (RLAs). Hurricane-force tropical cyclone-exposed counties were those that experienced a sustained maximal wind speed ⩾64 knots. We estimated the association between hurricane-force tropical cyclone exposure and long-term test scores using a Bayesian hierarchical linear model, accounting for time-varying covariates at the county and grade cohort level. For hurricane-exposed counties, compared with the rest of the state, there were better test scores in Florida in math (

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educational attainmenthurricanesstandardized test scorestropical cyclones

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PMID40034829
PMCPMC11874716

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