Data and Code for: Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Molitor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Project Citation:

Deryugina, Tatyana, and Molitor, David. Data and Code for: Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-10-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119969V1

Project Description

Summary: We follow Medicare cohorts to estimate Hurricane Katrina's long-run mortality effects on victims initially living in New Orleans. Including the initial shock, the hurricane improved eight-year survival by 2.07 percentage points. Migration to lower-mortality regions explains most of this survival increase. Those migrating to low- versus high-mortality regions look similar at baseline, but their subsequent mortality is 0.83–1.01 percentage points lower per percentage-point reduction in local mortality, quantifying causal effects of place on mortality among this population. Migrants' mortality is also lower in destinations with healthier behaviors and higher incomes but is unrelated to local medical spending and quality.

Funding Sources: United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (R21AG050795); United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (P01AG005842); United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (R01AG053350)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: migration; mortality; natural disasters

JEL Classification:
      H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
      I10 Health: General
      Q54 Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1992 – 2013

Universe: 100% of Medicare beneficiaries

Data Type(s): program source code

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: Individual

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