Table 4.
Top receiving counties in pre-disaster period and sending counties recovery period: Migration probabilities
| County | State | County type | Out- flow (pre-) | In-flow (recovery) | Δ |
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| Panel A. Top receiving and sending counties | |||||
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| Jefferson (New Orleans MSA) | Louisiana | Coastline | 2.63 | 2.61 | −0.01 |
| St. Tammany (New Orleans MSA) | Louisiana | Coastline | 0.48 | 0.65 | 0.17 |
| St. Bernard (New Orleans MSA) | Louisiana | Coastline | 0.22 | 1.21 | 0.99 |
| East Baton Rouge (Baton Rouge MSA) | Louisiana | Nearby | 0.18 | 0.57 | 0.38 |
| Plaquemines (New Orleans MSA) | Louisiana | Coastline | 0.08 | 1.13 | 1.05 |
| St. Charles (New Orleans MSA) | Louisiana | Coastline | 0.07 | 0.70 | 0.63 |
| St. John The Baptist (New Orleans MSA) | Louisiana | Coastline | 0.06 | 0.93 | 0.86 |
| Tangipahoa | Louisiana | Coastline | 0.04 | 0.27 | 0.23 |
| Lafayette | Louisiana | Nearby | 0.04 | 0.18 | 0.14 |
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| Panel B. Top receiving counties | |||||
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| Harris (Houston MSA) | Texas | Coastline | 0.21 | 0.07 | −0.14 |
| Dallas (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA) | Texas | Distant | 0.09 | 0.03 | −0.05 |
| Los Angeles (Los Angeles MSA) | California | Distant | 0.08 | 0.00 | −0.08 |
| Fulton (Atlanta MSA) | Georgia | Distant | 0.06 | 0.05 | −0.02 |
| Cook (Chicago MSA) | Illinois | Distant | 0.06 | 0.01 | −0.06 |
| New York (New York MSA) | New York | Distant | 0.06 | 0.01 | −0.05 |
| DeKalb (Atlanta MSA) | Georgia | Distant | 0.05 | 0.04 | −0.01 |
| San Diego (San Diego MSA) | California | Distant | 0.05 | 0.01 | −0.05 |
| Harrison (Gulfport Biloxi MSA) | Mississippi | Coastline | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.03 |
| Cobb (Atlanta MSA) | Georgia | Distant | 0.04 | 0.03 | −0.01 |
| Tarrant (Dallas Fort Worth MSA) | Texas | Distant | 0.04 | 0.02 | −0.02 |
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| Panel C. Top sending counties | |||||
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| St. Helena (Baton Rouge MSA) | Louisiana | Nearby | 0.01 | 0.37 | 0.37 |
| St. James | Louisiana | Nearby | 0.01 | 0.31 | 0.30 |
| Ascension (Baton Rouge MSA) | Louisiana | Nearby | 0.02 | 0.23 | 0.21 |
| Lafourche (Houma-Thibodaux MSA) | Louisiana | Coastline | 0.02 | 0.22 | 0.19 |
| Washington | Louisiana | Nearby | 0.02 | 0.19 | 0.17 |
| Iberville (Baton Rouge MSA) | Louisiana | Nearby | 0.00 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| Pike | Mississippi | Nearby | 0.01 | 0.19 | 0.17 |
| Terrebonne (Houma-Thibodaux MSA) | Louisiana | Coastline | 0.02 | 0.19 | 0.16 |
| Hancock (Gulfport-Biloxi MSA) | Mississippi | Coastline | 0.04 | 0.18 | 0.15 |
| Adams | Mississippi | Nearby | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.18 |
| Pearl River | Mississippi | Nearby | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.14 |
Note: Probabilities are multiplied by 100 to facilitate interpretation in percentage terms.
Note: Coastline refers to “disaster-affected coastline counties”; nearby refers to “nearby counties”; and distant refers to “Distant counties.”