Today's News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) includes a piece on hurricane evacuation (Few heed hurricane lessons). It is based on a survey from Robert Blendon, the notable health survey guy from Harvard's School of Public Health, of coastal residents and their attitudes toward evacuation in the event of a hurricane. The N&O story indicates
The survey, though, found that African-Americans were nearly twice as likely as whites to leave their homes in a mandatory evacuation, 41 percent versus 23 percent.
It was not clear whether that difference in attitude existed before Katrina, Blendon said, because there was no earlier survey to compare with the new results.
Too bad no one else has done much in this area of research.
Where's my props!
And I bet all of that sociology, geography and psychology evacuation literature has something about race too.
Posted by: John Whitehead | July 25, 2006 at 06:54 AM
Sure, but sociology, geography, and psych aren't econ, so how good can the studies be...
KIDDING! To our brethren in the softer social sciences: please don't flame me.
Posted by: | July 25, 2006 at 09:22 PM