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Christina M. Fong
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Social and
Decision
Sciences
Carnegie
Mellon
University
5000
Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh,
PA
15213
fong2@andrew.cmu.edu
(412) 268-8168 (voice)
412 268-6938 (fax)
Office: Porter Hall 223I
Assistant: Eileen Simeone
eileens@andrew.cmu.edu |
Research interests: Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics.
Publications
Christina Fong and Felix
Oberholzer-Gee. Truth
in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to
the Poor. Journal
of Public Economics. June 2011, 95(5-6), pp. 436-444.
Christina Fong and Erzo Luttmer, "Do Race and Fairness Matter in
Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity
Experiment." Journal of Public Economics. June 2011, 95(5-6), pp. 372-394.
Urs Fischbacher, Christina Fong and Ernst Fehr,
Fairness, Errors and the Power of
Competition. Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization. Oct. 2009, 72(1), pp.
527-545.
Christina Fong
and Erzo Luttmer, What
Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental
Evidence on Racial Group Loyalty. American
Economic Journal: Applied Economics. April 2009, 1(2), pp.
64-87.
Giacomo
Corneo and Christina Fong, Whats the Monetary Value of Distributive Justice? Journal of Public Economics. Feb.
2008, 92(1), pp. 289-308.
Christina
Fong, Evidence from an Experiment on Charity to Welfare Recipients:
Reciprocity, Altruism and the Empathic Responsiveness Hypothesis. Economic Journal. July 2007,
117(522), pp. 1008-1024.
Christina
Fong, Samuel Bowles, and Herbert Gintis, Strong Reciprocity and the Welfare State.
in: Serge-Christophe Kolm and Jean Mercier Ythier, eds. Handbook on the
Economics of Giving, Reciprocity, and Altruism. (North-Holland/Elsevier,
2006).
Also in: Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles,
Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr, eds. Moral Sentiments and Material Interests:
The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life. (The MIT Press, 2005).
Shorter version published by invitation:
Christina Fong, Samuel Bowles, and Herbert Gintis, The Behavioural Motives for
Income Redistribution. Australian
Economic Review. Sept. 2005, 38(3),
pp. 285-197.
Christina
Fong, Social Preferences, Self-Interest, and the Demand for
Redistribution. Journal
of Public Economics. Nov. 2001, 82(2), pp. 225-246.
Christina Fong
and Kevin McCabe, Are Decisions Under Risk Malleable? Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. Sept. 1999, 96,
pp. 10933-10938.
Revise and
Resubmits
Christina Fong, Prospective Mobility, Fairness, and the Demand for
Redistribution. Journal
of Public Economics.