Haizhen Mou PhD, MA, BA

Haizhen Mou' primary research interests include fiscal policy, fiscal federalism, health policy and social policy. Her research often takes a political economy and interdisciplinary perspective. She received five SSHRC grants and several other awards as the principal investigator.

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Designations

• PhD, Carleton University 
• MA, York University
• MA, Beijing Normal University
• BA, Tianjin University of Commerce  

Haizhen Mou is currently accepting applications for a new PhD student position starting in September 2025 in the following research areas: gender norms and immigrant women's labor outcomes.

Grants

• Principal Investigator, April 2024 – March 2029. SSHRC, Insight Grant, $308,304. Project: “Universal Childcare and Immigrant Women’s Labour Outcomes.” Co-Applicants: Ehab Diab and Akram Mahani.
• Principal Investigator, March 2024 – Feb. 2026. SSHRC, Partnership Engage Grant, $25,000. Project: “Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making: An Evaluation of the 2017 Bilateral Agreements on Mental Healthcare”. Partner: Canadian Mental Health Association. Collaborator: Leyna S. Lowe.
• Principal Investigator, May 2024 – April 2025. Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF), Align Grant. $10,000. Project: “Toward a Patient Medical Home Model of Care: A Study of the Role of Nurses”. Co-Applicants: Emmett Harrison, Tara Lee and Curtis Newton.
• Co-applicant, April 2023 – March 2028. SSHRC, Insight Grant, $396,885. Project: “The Financial, Governance, and Parental Feedback Effects of School Choice in Canada”. Principal Investigator: Jim
• Co-applicant, September 2024 – August 2025. Saskatchewan College of Family Physicians Member Research Grant. $19,799.5. Project: “Toward a Patient Medical Home Model of Care: A Study of Resident Physician’s Role in Quality Improvement and Interdisciplinary Team Leadership”. Principal Investigator: Emmett Harrison.
• Co-applicant, November 2023 – April 2025. Research Junction Development Grant, $29,973. Project: “Public Support and Communication Strategy for Municipal Property Tax Policy Reform: Evidence from a Survey Experiment”. Principal Investigator: Yang Yang.
• Co-applicant, March 2023 – March 2025, $150,000. CIHR, Catalyst Grant: Policy Research for Health System Transformation. Project: “Cross-Sectoral Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Children/Youth in Vulnerable Contexts”. Principal Investigator: Akram Mahani
• Principal Investigator, April 2019 – March 2024, SSHRC, Insight Grant, $170,715. Project: “Fiscal Governance in the Canadian Provinces”. Co-applicant: Michael M. Atkinson. Collaborators: Scott D. Cameron, Judy Ferguson, Mark Hallerberg and Yilin Hou.
• Co-PI, June 2023. SSHRC Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) Grant, $8,000. Book: Fiscal Choices: Canada After the Pandemic. Co-PI: Michael M. Atkinson.
• Principal Investigator, Dec. 2020 – May 2022, Research Junction Development Grant, $15,404. Project: “Maximizing Bang for the Buck: A Guideline for the Allocation of Municipal Business Tax Incentives”. Co-Applicants: Mike Jordan and Yang Yang.
• Principal Investigator, June 2014 – May 2018, SSHRC, Insight Development Grant, $68,957. Project: “Understanding Cost Efficiency in the Public K-12 Education Systems: A Behavioural Approach”. Co-applicants: Michael M. Atkinson and Jim Marshall.

Refereed Articles

• Maritza Lozano Man Hing, Michael Atkinson and Haizhen Mou. 2021. “Democratic Accountability in Times of Crisis: Executive Power, Fiscal Policy, and COVID-19”. Government and Opposition, 58(1): 39-60.
• Haizhen Mou and Maritza Lozano Man Hing. 2021. “Stringency of Balanced Budget Laws and Transparency of Budgeting Process”. Public Budgeting & Finance. 41:45–64.
• Stephanie Ortynsky, Jim Marshall and Haizhen Mou. March 2021. “Budget Practices in Canada’s K-12 Education Sector: Incremental, Performance, or Productivity Budgeting?”. Canadian Public Administration 64(1): 74-98.
• Haizhen Mou and Michael M. Atkinson. March 2020. “Want to Improve Math Scores? An Empirical Assessment of Recent Policy Interventions in Canada” Canadian Public Policy 46(1):107–124.
• Haizhen Mou, Michael M. Atkinson and Jim Marshall. 2019. “Budgeting for Efficiency? A Case Study of the Public K-12 Education Systems of Canada.” Applied Economics 51(34): 3740 – 3757.

Refereed Books

• Michael M. Atkinson and Haizhen Mou. 2024. Fiscal Choices: Canada After the Pandemic. University of Toronto Press. Accepted for publication.
• Daniel Béland, André Lecours, Gregory P. Marchildon, Haizhen Mou, and Rose Olfert (author names are listed in alphabetical order). 2017. Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada: Political and Economic Dimensions. University of Toronto Press.

Non-Refereed Articles

• Michael M. Atkinson and Haizhen Mou. July 2024. “What to do about intergenerational wealth inequality”. Policy Options.
• Haizhen Mou. May 6, 2021. “Canada Health Transfer: Background and future”. Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Commission (IFRC) What Now series. IFRC and Canada West Foundation. https://cwf.ca/research/publications/what-now-canada-health-transfer-background-and-future/
• Michael Atkinson and Haizhen Mou. March 28, 2021. “Climate action, job creation are top post-pandemic priorities for Canadians.” The Conversation, the National Post (March 29, 2021)

Compiled Dataset

• Haizhen Mou and Maritza Lozano Man Hing. 2023. Stringency and Transparency Indices of Fiscal Rules in Canada, 1980-2021 (Download the Data Set). University of Saskatchewan.

• Childcare policy
• Fiscal federalism
• Healthcare models

• JSGS 803 Quantitative Method and Research Design, Fall 2024
• JSGS 802 Public Finance, Winter 2025