is a blessing.” Oakland's analysis showed that the living conditions in New Orleans were not attractive for the poor to begin with and Hurricane Katrina provided an exit from those conditions, resulting in the lack of interest to return to the area. Honors received Brookings Institution Fellow (1963–1964) Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1961–1963) Who's Who in America (1986) References http://www.tulane.edu/~economic/faculty/woakland.html http://www.tulane.edu/~economic/vita/oakland.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/1829175 https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/us/nationalspecial/21orleans.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 1939 births 2007 deaths Tulane University faculty University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni People from Chicopee, Massachusetts Economists from Massachusetts 20th-century American economists