Research Interests
Ren Mu is Robert H. and Judy L. Allen Professor of Economics in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Michigan State University in 2004. Prior to joining Texas A&M University in 2007, she worked as a consultant economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank.
Her research is in applied development microeconomics. She has worked on such topics as rural-to-urban migration, consumption smoothing, population aging and elderly health, gender disparity, and public goods and poverty reduction. Ren joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2012.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18290
Shuang Ma, Ren Mu, Han Xiao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17752
Shuang Ma, Ren Mu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14187
Yanyan Liu, Shuang Ma, Ren Mu
published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 84, Article 102125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10640
Shuang Ma, Ren Mu
published in: World Development, 2020, 132, 104980.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8630
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 100 (2), 521-544
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7466
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28, 631-657
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6797
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31(2), 483-503.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2333
published in: Demography, 2007, 44 (2), 265 - 288
