Although existing literature documents the negative impacts of ethnic diversity on charitable giving, whether and how religious diversity affect giving behaviors remain vague. Combing the religious diversity index and a nationwide survey in China, our analysis suggests that religious diversity...

The long-term effects of recurrent natural disasters on economic development remain an open question in the existing literature. It is partly because recurrent disasters, unlike one-off catastrophic events, repeatedly strike the same geographic region and have cumulative effects in the long run....