NBER

University student presence—not Gen-z population, not educated urban adults—predicts where protests start and also how they diffuse into an off-campus uprising, from @ProfSultanEcon and @mushfiq_econ nber.org/papers/w35983

Using LLMs as synthetic survey respondents finds that institutions report weaker green tastes yet greener portfolio tilts than retail investors, citing outside pressure, from Xindi He and Lubos Pastor nber.org/papers/w35982

The same inflation news can lead professional forecasters to revise stock return expectations differently, depending on their narratives, from Christian Conrad, Julius Theodor Schoelkopf, Michael Weber, and Frank Brueckbauer nber.org/papers/w35981

Post-Covid-19 inflation was predominantly driven by unexpectedly strong demand forces, both in the United States and in the Euro Area, from @DomenicoGiannon and @gprimice nber.org/papers/w35980

Self-censorship on college campuses is not simply about being conservative: students with moderate views self-censor the most, due to differences in topic saliency and confidence, from Peter Arcidiacono, Cory Dowd, and Matthew Lilley nber.org/papers/w35979