Study on the Impact of High-Quality Economic Development and Flood Resilience on Flood Damage in the Yangtze River basin: Evidence from Provincial Administrative Regions in the Yangtze River Basin

Table 9

Sobel–Goodman test results of mediating effect.

	Lnecolosses	Lnaffectedpopu	Lndeaths	IEL
Mediating effect (δ2η)	−1.054	−0.804	−2.446	−1.143
Std. err.	0.463	0.416	0.657	0.359
Z statistic	−2.277	−1.935	−3.722	−3.182
Direction of mediating effect	—	—	—	—
Hypothesis 2 is verified	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Note. , and mean statistically significant at 1%, 5%, and 10%.