In 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced many children to relocate across the Southeast. While schools quickly enrolled evacuees, families in receiving schools worried about the impacts on incumbent students. We find no effect, on average, of the inflow of evacuees on achievement in Houston....

In 2005, hurricanes Katrina and Rita induced the largest internal migration ever in the U.S. As a byproduct, a large number of children had to evacuate the Gulf coast areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and relocate to schools across the southeast US. Many school districts strived to...

In 2005, hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced many children to relocate across the Southeast. While schools quickly enrolled evacuees, receiving families worried about the impact of evacuees on non-evacuee students. Data from Houston and Louisiana show that, on average, the influx of evacuees...