Former graduate student Ted Chen and current graduate student Boyoon Lee have published “Income-based inequality in post-disaster migration is lower in high resilience areas: Evidence from U.S. internal migration” in Environmental Research Letters. The authors use network regression models to look at how internal migration patterns in the United States vary by disaster-related property damage, household income, and local-level disaster resilience. Their results show that post-disaster migration patterns vary considerably by the income level of sending and receiving counties, which suggests that income-based inequality impacts both individuals’ access to relocation and the ability of disaster-afflicted areas to rebuild. Furthermore, they find evidence that income-based inequality in post-disaster outmigration is attenuated in areas with higher disaster resilience, not due to increased relocation out of poorer areas but instead because there is decreased relocation from richer ones. The article is available here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5692
