Ren Mu

Research Fellow

Texas A&M University

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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.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17752
Digital Roots or Digital Routes? Broadband Expansion and the Rural-Urban Migration in China
Shuang Ma, Ren Mu
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
published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 84, Article 102125
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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