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Christina Fong

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Research Scientist, Department of Social and Decision Sciences

Education:
  • University of Michigan - B.A. - 1990
  • University of Massachusetts - Ph.D. - 2000
Teaching and Research Interests:
  • Public economics, experimental economics, behavioral economics.
Website and/or personal homepage:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/fong2/

Published Papers: 
  • What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Racial Group Loyalty
    American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Forthcoming.
    (With: Erzo Luttmer)

  • What's the Monetary Value of Distributive Justice?
    Journal of Public Economics 92, February 2008; 289-308.
    (With: Giacomo Corneo)

  • Evidence From an Experiment on Charity to Welfare Recipients: Reciprocity, Altruism and the Empathic Responsiveness Hyposthesis
    Economic Journal 117, July 2007; 1008-1024.

  • Reciprocity and the Welfare State
    in Jean Mercier-Ythier (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism, and Reciprocity, 2, 2006.
    (With: S. Bowles, H. Gintis)

  • Social Preferences, Self-Interest, and the Demand for Redistribution
    Journal of Public Economics 82, 2001; 225-246.

  • Are Decisions Under Risk Malleable?
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999; 10927-10932.
    (With: K. McCabe)

Working Papers: 
  • Willingness to Pay for Justice: Evidence from an Experiment on Giving to the Poor
    July, 2007.
    (With: Felix Oberholzer)

  • Prospective Mobility, Fairness, and the Demand for Redistribution
    September, 2006.

  • Fairness, Errors, and the Power of Competition
    September, 2005.
    (With: Urs Fischbacher, Ernst Fehr)

  • Which Beliefs Matter? Target-specific Beliefs versus General Beliefs and the Demand for Redistribution
    September, 2004.

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