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Religious diversity and regional development in China
Affiliation:1. School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;2. Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;3. LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;4. China Data Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA;5. Lab for Urban and Regional Analysis, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China;1. Collaborative Innovation Center for the Cooperation and Development of Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China;2. Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5330, United States;3. School of Economics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, Hubei 430073, China;1. KDI School of Public Policy and Management, 263 Nansejong-ro, Sejong, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, 6214 University Avenue, Halifax, NS, Canada
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.
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