This finding suggests that the effect on countries' production efficiency is positive for lower number of disaster events; however, after a specific threshold value, the effect becomes negative.
If the Sendai Framework achieves its goals, by 2030 a much lower risk of disaster will result in fewer lives lost, more livelihoods safeguarded, and healthier communities (UNISDR 2015a).
This implies that a lower number of disaster occurrences has a positive influence on countries' productivity improvement due to possible stimulation of restructuring and investment policies imposed by governments as counteractions of those events.
Moreover, the results indicate that a lower number of disaster occurrences have a positive influence on countries technological change and technological catch-up due to possible stimulation of restructuring and investment policies imposed by governments as counteractions of those events.
Non-participants reported lower levels of disaster exposure and lower levels of posttraumatic stress symptoms.
According to Galea, Nandi, and Vlahov [ 1], the prevalence of Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder (PTSD) is generally lower after natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes, hurricanes, floods) than after human-made/technological disasters.
Disasters lower the life expectancy of women more than the life expectancy of men.
This finding suggests that lower number of disasters tend to increase countries' technological change and technological catch-up up to a certain point.
The positive effect maybe attribute to the fact that for lower number of disasters, countries engage restructuring and investment, which in turn accelerates both their technological change and technological catch-up levels.
Even at the lower end of disasters, like getting fired or my apartment flooding, I would be fucked.
