Details about Ezra Karger

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Short-id: pka1537

Working Papers

2025

1. Self-Resolving Prediction Markets for Unverifiable Outcomes
   Papers, arXiv.org

2024

2. Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   Also in Working Papers, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State (2023) View citations (2)
   HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris (2023) View citations (2)
   Working Papers, HAL (2023)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023) View citations (2)
   Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies (2023) View citations (2)
3. Early Predictors of Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice Involvement
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
4. How Much Can Households Gain and Lose with Unexpected Inflation?
   On the Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
5. Nominal Maturity Mismatch and the Liquidity Cost of Inflation
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis View citations (1)
6. Religion as Social Insurance: Evidence From the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
   CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany
7. The Black-White Lifetime Earnings Gap
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   See also Journal Article The Black–white lifetime earnings gap, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (2024) (2024)

2023

8. Heterogeneous Impacts of Sentencing Decisions
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   Also in Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (2022)
9. School and Crime
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2023)

2021

10. Do Stay-at-Home Orders Cause People to Stay at Home? Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Consumer Behavior
    Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (29)
    Also in Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (2020) View citations (51)
    See also Journal Article Do Stay-at-Home Orders Cause People to Stay at Home? Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Consumer Behavior, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2023) View citations (8) (2023)
11. Heterogeneity in the Marginal Propensity to Consume: Evidence from Covid-19 Stimulus Payments
    Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (9)
    Also in Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (2020) View citations (22)
12. The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s
    SocArXiv, Center for Open Science View citations (3)
13. The Returns to Public Library Investment
    Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article The Returns to Public Library Investment, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association (2024) (2024)
14. Tracking U.S. Consumers in Real Time with a New Weekly Index of Retail Trade
    Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (1)

2020

15. School Closures During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (10)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2024) View citations (3) (2024)

Journal Articles

2024

1. School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic
   (School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic)
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, (1), 266-276 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper School Closures During the 1918 Flu Pandemic, CEPR Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (10) (2020)
2. The Black–white lifetime earnings gap
   Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 94, (C)
   See also Working Paper The Black-White Lifetime Earnings Gap, IZA Discussion Papers (2024) (2024)
3. The Returns to Public Library Investment
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16, (2), 78-109
   See also Working Paper The Returns to Public Library Investment, Working Paper Series (2021) View citations (3) (2021)
4. Treasury Debt and Inflation Tax
   Review, 2024, 106, (9), 1-11

2023

5. Do Stay-at-Home Orders Cause People to Stay at Home? Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Consumer Behavior
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105, (4), 1017-1027 View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper Do Stay-at-Home Orders Cause People to Stay at Home? Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Consumer Behavior, Working Paper Series (2021) View citations (29) (2021)
6. The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names
   Explorations in Economic History, 2023, 87, (C) View citations (4)

2020

7. Measuring the relationship between business reopenings, Covid-19, and consumer behavior
   Chicago Fed Letter, 2020, (445), 6