文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Religious diversity and regional development in China

作者：Ying, Zheng[1,2];Liu, Shibao[3];Bao, Shuming[4,5];Zhou, Jianbo[1]

机构：[1]Peking Univ, Sch Econ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China;[2]Harvard Univ, Harvard Law Sch, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA;[3]Drexel Univ, LeBow Coll Business, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA;[4]Univ Michigan, China Data Ctr, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 USA;[5]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Lab Urban & Reg Anal, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2017

卷号：46

起止页码：1

外文期刊名：CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000417008400001)】；

基金：The authors would like to thank Henry Luce Foundation for their funding support for the project of "Spatial Study of Chinese Religions and Society", the China Scholarship Council for their scholarship support, and Harvard University for their sponsorship. The authors would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments that greatly contributed to improving the paper

语种：英文

外文关键词：Religion diversity; Fragmentation; Polarization; Regional development

摘要：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.