After Katrina, researchers found that the worst - flooded residents relied on credit cards in modest amounts — incurring
an average temporary increase of 15 percent, or $ 500, in new credit card debt.
Not exact matches
Second, large numbers of less productive, and mostly
temporary, workers have been laid off leading to a steep
increase in the
average output per unit of labour.
While residents in the most flooded areas
increased their credit card balances on
average by $ 700 (a 22 percent
increase over their
average balance of $ 3200 prior to the storm), the
increase was only
temporary, with subsequent quarters showing statistically insignificant changes to credit card balances.
«Married people who had gotten divorced by the second time the survey researchers contacted them were... healthier...» Williams and Umberson found that men showed
temporary increases in their health when first married and
temporary declines in their health when first divorced or widowed, but» [r] egardless of whether they got married, got unmarried, stayed married, or stayed single, women (on
average) noticed no real changes in their health.»