PROFILE

Dr Mu Zheng’s general research interests focus on trends, social determinants and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with special focuses on how marriage and family have served as major inequality-generating mechanisms. Her ongoing research projects examine how internal migration, interactions between gender inequality and intergenerational inequality, and interactions between gender norms and socioeconomic context shape individuals’ time use patterns, family experiences, and well-being in China.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Marriage and Family; Fertility; Ethnicity; Migration

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Mu, Zheng and Yu Xie. 2016. “Motherhood Penalty and Fatherhood Premium? Fertility Effects on Parents in China.” Demographic Research 35: 1373−1410.
• Lai, Qing and Zheng Mu. 2016. “Universal Yet Local: The Religious Factor in Chinese Muslims’ Perception of World Developmental Hierarchy.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 2: 524-546.
• Mu, Zheng and Qing Lai. 2016. “Micro-Macro Interactions in Ethnoreligious Homogamy among Hui Muslims in Contemporary China: The Roles of Residential Concentration and Aging.” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 36: 88-105.
• Mu, Zheng and Xiwei Wu. 2015. “Residential Concentration and Marital Behaviors of Muslim Chinese.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 1: 177-200.
• Mu, Zheng and Yu Xie. 2014. “Marital Age Homogamy in China: A Reversal of Trend in the Reform Era?” Social Science Research 44: 141-157.
• Mu, Zheng and Yu Xie. 2014. “Fertility Effects on Parents’ Subjective Well-being.” Sociological Studies 174: 124-147 (in Chinese).
• Xie, Yu and Zheng Mu. 2014. “Chapter Eight: Conclusion” in Wellbeing Development Report of China 2014 (in Chinese). Beijing: Peking University Press.