Dr. Renfu LUO

  Professor

  School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences (SAAS)

  Senior Research Fellow

  China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP)

  Peking University

  Email: luorf.ccap@pku.edu.cn 

Research Area

Rural Public Goods, Rural Education and human capital; Rural Development  

Short Bio

Renfu Luo, Ph.D in Human Geography from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor with Tenure at School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University. He has worked on rural public goods, rural education and human capital and rural development for about 20 years. By June 2023, Dr. Luo has published 170 articles in international and Chinese peer-reviewed journals, of which 90 papers are published in SCI/SSCI listed journals, including those published in top journals in the relevant fields, such as Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Nutrition, and American Journal of Public Health, etc. He has been listed by Elsevier on “Most Cited Chinese Researchers” for eight years in a row since 2014, and has been listed as “Highly Cited Social science scholars” from 2014 to 2019, as well as a “highly cited Scholar of Applied Economics” from 2020 to 2022. 

Selected Publications

1.  Sean Sylvia, Nele Warrinnier, Renfu Luo, Ai Yue, Orazio Attanasio, Alexis Medina and Scott Rozelle From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-Based Parenting Intervention Through China’s Family Planning Cadres. The Economic Journal, Volume 131, Issue 635, April 2020, Pages 1365–1400, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa114.

2.  Renfu Luo, Miller Grant, Scott Rozelle, Sylvia Sean, Vera-Hernández Marcos, 2020; Can Bureaucrats Really be Paid Like CEOs? School Administrator Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China; Journal of the European Economic Association; 18(1):165–201, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy047.

3.  Wong Ho Lun, Wang Yu, Renfu Luo*, Zhang Linxiu, Rozelle Scott; Local governance and the quality of local infrastructure: Evidence from village road projects in rural China; Journal of Public Economics, 2017,152: 119-132.

4.  Renfu Luo, Emmers Dorien, Warrinnier Nele, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia; Using community health workers to deliver a scalable integrated parenting program in rural China: A cluster-randomized controlled trial; Social Science & Medicine; 2019, 239:1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112545.

5.  Wong Ho Lun, Renfu Luo, Zhang Linxiu, Rozelle Scott; Providing quality infrastructure in rural villages: The case of rural roads in China; Journal of Development Economics; 2013, 103:262-274. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.03.002.

Courses Taught at Peking University

Advanced Development Economics, Nutrition, Health, and Education in Rural China