
In addition to research done by the Louisiana Family Recovery Corps, many other organizations and agencies conducted studies related to various aspects of the impacts of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike.
The following includes a list of some of the reasearch associated with the hurricanes (research separated by category):
Business
- 2006 Department of Homeland Security Business Survey
- How Businesses Make Decisions After Catastrophies
- Jefferson Parish Post-Katrina Workforce Evaluation Survey
- Bayou Region Workforce Study
- Post-Katrina Labor Wage Survey
- Businesses Open of Planning to Open
- Employment Issues and Challenges in Post-Katrina New Orleans
- Employment and Self-Employment in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
Demographics
Government
- GulfGovreports: One Year Later
- A Solution to Louisiana's Post-Katrina Electoral Problems
- Hurricane Katrina: DOD Disaster Response
- After Katrina -- Washed Away? Justice in New Orleans
- Building a Better Safety Net for the New New Orleans
- Federalism after Hurricane Katrina: How can Social Programs Respond to a Major Disaster?
- Three Years after Katrina and Rita, Challenges Remain
- The Role of Community Rebuilding Plans in the Hurricane Recovery
- Spending Federal Disaster Aid: Comparing the Process and Priorities in Louisiana and Mississippi in the Wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- A Year and a Half after Katrina and Rita, an Uneven Recovery
- GulfGov Reports: One Year Later
- The Repopulation of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
- Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans
- New Orleans After the Storm: Lessons from the Past, a Plan for the Future
- Federal Allocations in Response to Katrina, Rita, Wilma
- Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America
- A Review of Key Indicators of Recovery Two Years After Katrina
- Lessons and Limits: Tax Incentives and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Katrina
- A Hand Up: A Strategy to Reward Work, Expand Opportunity, and Reduce Poverty
Healthcare, Children, and Families
- Assessing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Persons with Disabilities
- The Recovery Divide: Poverty and the Widening Gap Among Mississippi Children and Families Affected by Hurricane Katrina
- On the Edge: Children and Families Displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Face a Looming Medical and Mental Health Crisis
- Initial Health Policy Responses to Hurricane Katrina and Possible Next Steps
- Hospitals in Hurricane Katrina: Challenges Facing Custodial Institutions in a Disaster
- Young Children After Katrina: A Proposal to Heal the Damage and Create Opportunity in New Orleans
- Understanding the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina for ACF Service Populations: A Feasibility Assessment of Study Approaches
- Louisiana’s Proposed Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Project: Estimating the Numbers of Uninsured and Projected Medicaid Costs
- What Happens to Victims? A Research Guide for Disaster-Response Studies
- Healthcare for Hurricane Victims
- A Mobile Medical Care Approach Targeting Underserved Populations in Post-Hurricane Katrina Mississippi
- Meeting Mental Health Needs Following a Natural Disaster: Lessons From Hurricane Katrina
- Mental Health Services in Louisiana School-Based Health Centers Post-Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- Lessons Learned from the State and Local Public Health Response to Hurricane Katrina
- How Schools Responded to Children's Mental Health Needs Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- The Impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on People with Disabilities: A Look Back and Remaining Challenges
Housing and Community
- Far From Home: Deficiencies in Federal Disaster Housing Assistance After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and Recommendations for Improvement
- After Katrina: Shared Challenges for Rebuilding Communities
- Rebuilding the Cultural Vitality of New Orleans
- Rebuilding Affordable Housing in New Orleans: The Challenge of Creating Inclusive Communities
- Rebuilding Affordable Housing on the Gulf Coast: Lessons Learned in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina
- Post-Katrina Recovery of the Housing Market Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
- Housing Families Displaced by Katrina: A Review of the Federal Response to Date
Non-Profits and Charities
- After Katrina: Public Expectation and Charities' Response
- The Aftermath of Katrina: State of the Non-Profit Sector in Louisiana
- Open and Operating? An Assessment of Louisiana Non-profit Health and Human Services after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- The Role of Faith-Based and Community Organizations in Providing Relief and Recovery Services after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- The Role of Faith-Based and Community Organizations in Post-Hurricane Human Service Relief Efforts
- Providing Long-Term Services after Major Disasters
- Charities on the Frontline and Making the Best Use of Tax Policy to Help Them
- Response, Recovery, and the Role of the Non-profit Community in the Two Years Since Katrina and Rita
Insurance
- Insuring Against Catastrophes: The Lessons from Katrina
- Commercial Wind Insurance in the Gulf States: Developments Since Hurricane Katrina and Developments Moving Forward
- Hurricane Katrina: Insurance Losses and National Capacities for Financing Disaster Risk
- The Insurance Industry's Troubling Response to Hurricane Katrina
- Disaster Mitigation and Insurance: Learning from Katrina
Education
- The Future of Public Education in New Orleans
- An Examination of the Impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Public School Districts in 15 Communities
- Effects of Student Displacement in Louisiana During the First Academic Year After the Hurricanes of 2005
- Issues Raised by Hurricane Katrina: A Focus on Education and Training
- New Orleans Education in a Post-Katrina World













