Christina M. Fong

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.  More specifically, much of my research focuses on the role of fairness in redistributive attitudes and behavior. 

Publications

Christina Fong and Erzo Luttmer, “What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Racial Group Loyalty.American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.  Forthcoming.

 

Giacomo Corneo and Christina Fong, “What’s 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.

 

Urs Fischbacher, Christina Fong and Ernst Fehr, “Fairness, Errors and the Power of Competition.Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

 

Other Working Papers

 

Christina Fong, “Which Beliefs Matter? Target-specific Beliefs versus General Beliefs and the Demand for Redistribution.”

 

Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer. “Willingness to Pay for Justice: Evidence from an Experiment on Giving to the Poor.”