Diversidade religiosa e crescimento econômico nos municípios brasileiros

Abstract

This work aims to measure the relationship between economic growth of Brazilian municipalities and religious diversity; it seeks to measure its effect, including with regard to religious diversity in the evangelical-pentecostal context. It is proposed to estimate simple models via the Ordinary Least Squares Method (OLSM), measuring the effect of religious diversity (IDR) on the rate of change of municipal GDP (at current prices and per capita), as well as some commonly used variables in empirical research on growth (such as human capital, urbanization, initial level of GDP and others). The estimated models suggest that total religious diversity, considering all religious denominations, shows evidence of a positive effect on municipal economic growth, but evangelical-pentecostal diversity does not.