Religious diversity and regional development in China

Zheng Ying, Shibao Liu, Shuming Bao and Jianbo Zhou

China Economic Review, 2017, vol. 46, issue C, 1-9

Abstract: This paper investigates possible impacts of religious diversity on regional development in China. We developed the religious fragmentation and polarization indices as measurements for the religious diversity by using the religious site data from the 2004 economic Census data in China. The results from the panel data regressions within national coverage suggest that the religious diversity has positive and significant impacts on regional development in general. The results from the panel data regressions within regional coverage also suggest that religious fragmentation has a positive and significant association with the economic development in the eastern region of China while religious polarization has a positive and significant association with the economic development in the central and western regions of China.

Keywords: Religion diversity; Fragmentation; Polarization; Regional development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 R1 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2017.08.003

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