Changes in subjective risks of hurricanes as time passes: analysis of a sample of Katrina evacuees Academic Article

abstract

• Using a quasi-field experiment, we report on subjects' perceptions of the risks of hurricanes. All experimental subjects were displaced by either Hurricane Katrina or Rita, in New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas, except for a small control group consisting of people who live in central Texas. We examine their perceptions of risks just after the hurricanes occurred, and over one year later to evaluate the change in subjective risk perceptions over time. A latent risk model is estimated in which subjective probabilities of hurricane strike risk are represented as a function of respondents' demographic characteristics and experiences following the storms.

authors

• Shaw, Douglass
• Woodward, Richard

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH

author list (cited authors)

• Baker, J., Shaw, W. D., Riddel, M., & Woodward, R. T.

citation count

• 17

complete list of authors

• Baker, Justin||Shaw, W Douglass||Riddel, Mary||Woodward, Richard T

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Risk Research  Journal

keywords

• Ambiguity
• Hurricane Katrina
• Rita
• Subjective Risk

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/13669870802452798

start page

• 59

end page

• 74

volume

• 12

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1080%2F13669870802452798