We propose a one-shot, non-cooperative mechanism that implements the core in a large class of public goods games. Players simultaneously choose conditional commitment functions, which are binding unilateral commitments that condition a player’s contribution on the contributions of others. We...

We demonstrate that racial biases against tutors hinder learning. In e-learning experiments, U.S. conservatives are more likely to disregard advice from Black tutors, resulting in reduced performance compared to learners taught by white tutors. We show that the bias is unconscious and,...

Economic agents often infer latent structures - such as preference types - from data, without exogenously specified priors. We model such agents as empirical Bayesians. They estimate both the prior over types and the meanings of types via maximum likelihood. We show this estimation is equivalent...