Christina Fong

Research Scientist, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Dietrich College

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Education

• University of Massachusetts - Ph D - 2000
• University of Michigan - BA - 1990

Publications

• Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

  (author(s): Christina Fong, Erzo Luttmer)
  Journal of Public Economics 95(5-6), 2011; 372-394

• Fairness, Errors and the Power of Competition

  (author(s): Urs Fischbacher, Christina Fong, Ernst Fehr)
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 72(1), 2009; 527-545

• What’s the Monetary Value of Distributive Justice?

  (author(s): Giacomo Corneo, Christina Fong)
  Journal of Public Economics 92(1), 2008; 289-308

• Strong Reciprocity and the Welfare State
  Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity, and Altruism

  (author(s): Christina Fong, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis)
  North-Holland/Elsevier, 2006; 1439-1464

• Are Decisions Under Risk Malleable?

  (author(s): Christina Fong, Kevin McCabe)
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96, 1999; 10933-10938

• Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor

  (author(s): Christina Fong, Felix Oberholzer-Gee)
  Journal of Public Economics 95(5-6), 2011; 436-444

• What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Racial Group Loyalty

  (author(s): Christina Fong, Erzo Luttmer)
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1(2), 2009; 64-87

• Evidence from an Experiment on Charity to Welfare Recipients: Reciprocity, Altruism and the Empathic Responsiveness Hypothesis

  Economic Journal 117(522), 2007; 1008-1024

• Social Preferences, Self-Interest, and the Demand for Redistribution

  Journal of Public Economics 82(2), 2001; 225-246

WORKING PAPERS

• An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks

  (author(s): Alessandro Acquisti, Christina Fong)

• Redistributive Politics with Target-specific Beliefs

  (author(s): Christina Fong, Panu Poutvaara)

• Prospective Mobility, Fairness, and the Demand for Redistribution