E J Raker
Biographic Data
| ID | 58576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E J Raker |
| GIVEN NAMES | E J |
| FAMILY NAME | Raker |
| SIGNATURE | RAKER E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7822-7032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Local Social Capital, Disaster Housing Damage, and Mental Health: Insights from Hurricane Harvey
Community-level social capital has been theorized to shape mental health, particularly in disaster contexts, but methodological complexities hamper prior studies. Pairing zip-code-level data on social capital from Opportunity Insights with repeated cross-sectional health survey data before and after Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas, we examine how local social capital moderated the mental health consequences of disaster housing damage. We first…
Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States
Increasing evidence links exposure to extreme weather events in utero with adverse health outcomes at birth, including lower birth weight. This research, however, often faces data limitations because natural disasters may be localized, often affecting some neighborhoods but not others, whereas outcome data are often available only at higher geographic levels, such as counties. In this article, we introduce a novel strategy for estimating the effe…
Disastrous Burdens: Hurricane Katrina, Federal Housing Assistance, and Well-Being
Few existing studies of federal disaster aid examine the logics that govern assistance access. Applying the lens of administrative burdens, we identify four onerous aspects of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) housing aid program—regulations regarding application unit, documentation, and damage sufficiency, and long processing times—that prompt assistance delay or denial for in-need households. Our empirical strategy pairs administ…
Climate-Related Disasters and Children's Health: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey
Children have been theorized as vulnerable to the health consequences of climate change, but data limitations have hampered prior studies of climate-related disasters in the United States. In this article, the author exploits the interruption of a health survey in Houston by Hurricane Harvey, linked to local flooding data ( n = 1,123, ages 5-17 years). Multivariable models on a matched sample show that Harvey led to worse parent-reported health a…
The geography of ethnoracial low birth weight inequalities in the United States
In this article, we describe, decompose, and examine correlates of the geography of ethnoracial inequalities in low birth weight (LBW) in the United States. Drawing on the population of singleton births to U.S.-born White, Black, Latinx, and Native American parents in the first decade of the twenty-first century (N = 28.2 million births), we calculate county-level LBW rates and rate ratios. Results demonstrate a stark racial hierarchy in which Bl…
Disastrous Burdens: Hurricane Katrina, Federal Housing Assistance, and Well-Being
Few existing studies of federal disaster aid examine the logics that govern assistance access. Applying the lens of administrative burdens, we identify four onerous aspects of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) housing aid program—regulations regarding application unit, documentation, and damage sufficiency, and long processing times—that prompt assistance delay or denial for in-need households. Our empirical strategy pairs administ…
Climate-Related Disasters and Children's Health: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey
Children have been theorized as vulnerable to the health consequences of climate change, but data limitations have hampered prior studies of climate-related disasters in the United States. In this article, the author exploits the interruption of a health survey in Houston by Hurricane Harvey, linked to local flooding data ( n = 1,123, ages 5-17 years). Multivariable models on a matched sample show that Harvey led to worse parent-reported health a…
The geography of ethnoracial low birth weight inequalities in the United States
In this article, we describe, decompose, and examine correlates of the geography of ethnoracial inequalities in low birth weight (LBW) in the United States. Drawing on the population of singleton births to U.S.-born White, Black, Latinx, and Native American parents in the first decade of the twenty-first century (N = 28.2 million births), we calculate county-level LBW rates and rate ratios. Results demonstrate a stark racial hierarchy in which Bl…
Climate-Related Disasters and Children's Health: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey
Children have been theorized as vulnerable to the health consequences of climate change, but data limitations have hampered prior studies of climate-related disasters in the United States. In this article, the author exploits the interruption of a health survey in Houston by Hurricane Harvey, linked to local flooding data ( n = 1,123, ages 5-17 years). Multivariable models on a matched sample show that Harvey led to worse parent-reported health a…
Disastrous Burdens: Hurricane Katrina, Federal Housing Assistance, and Well-Being
Few existing studies of federal disaster aid examine the logics that govern assistance access. Applying the lens of administrative burdens, we identify four onerous aspects of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) housing aid program—regulations regarding application unit, documentation, and damage sufficiency, and long processing times—that prompt assistance delay or denial for in-need households. Our empirical strategy pairs administ…
Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States
Increasing evidence links exposure to extreme weather events in utero with adverse health outcomes at birth, including lower birth weight. This research, however, often faces data limitations because natural disasters may be localized, often affecting some neighborhoods but not others, whereas outcome data are often available only at higher geographic levels, such as counties. In this article, we introduce a novel strategy for estimating the effe…
Local Social Capital, Disaster Housing Damage, and Mental Health: Insights from Hurricane Harvey
Community-level social capital has been theorized to shape mental health, particularly in disaster contexts, but methodological complexities hamper prior studies. Pairing zip-code-level data on social capital from Opportunity Insights with repeated cross-sectional health survey data before and after Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas, we examine how local social capital moderated the mental health consequences of disaster housing damage. We first…
Disaster Management and Resilience (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Disaster Response and Management (2 works)