Ren Mu

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Texas A&M University

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Ren Mu is an associate professor 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. Her work has been published in Demography, Economics and Human Biology, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Food Policy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Public Economics and Labour Economics.

Ren joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2012.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 14187
Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Post-lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities
Yanyan Liu, Shuang Ma, Ren Mu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10640
Forced off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Shuang Ma, Ren Mu
published in: World Development, 2020, 132, 104980.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8630
Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
John T. Giles, Ren Mu
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 100 (2), 521-544
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7466
Migration and Young Child Nutrition: Evidence from Rural China
Ren Mu, Alan de Brauw
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28, 631-657
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6797
Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China
Ren Mu, Yang Du
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31(2), 483-503.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2333
Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China
John T. Giles, Ren Mu
published in: Demography, 2007, 44 (2), 265 - 288
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