Katharine W H Harwood

Biographic Data

ID9538953
NAMEKatharine W H Harwood
GIVEN NAMESKatharine W H
FAMILY NAMEHarwood
SIGNATUREHARWOOD K W H
AFFILIATIONSNYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NYU Furman Center
ORCID0009-0002-7104-9250
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Tale of Two Storms

    Open AccessIngrid Gould Ellen, Katharine W H Harwood et al.ARTICLERSF The Russell Sage Foundation…2026

    We use the case of Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Harvey to test how extreme climate events drive neighborhood racial change and how impacts vary in settings with different socioeconomic characteristics and exposures to past flooding risk. Using data on neighborhood characteristics, mortgage applications, and inundation after the storms, we show that in both New York City and Harris County, Texas, population and housing units actually increased mo…

  • The impact of natural disasters on rental markets

    Open AccessKatharine W H Harwood, Katharine WH HarwoodARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2026

  • Advancing Choice in the Housing Choice Voucher Program

    Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine M O’regan et al.ARTICLEHousing Policy Debate2023

    An elusive goal of the Housing Choice Voucher program is to provide more—and better—locational choices for recipient households. Yet landlord discrimination can be a barrier, particularly in areas of greater opportunity. Using a difference-in-difference design with different comparison groups, we evaluate the effectiveness of source-of-income discrimination laws in 31 jurisdictions enacting such laws between 2007 and 2017 in improving locational …