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Ezra Karger

Ezra Karger

Economist
Microeconomics

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Ezra Karger is an economist in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He conducts research in the areas of labor economics, public economics, and economic history. Prior to joining the Chicago Fed in 2021, he received a B.A. in mathematics, statistics, and economics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Policy Brief
If You Build a Library, Children Will Come—and Learn More, Too
Ezra Karger | 2022 | February
Chicago Fed Letter
Measuring the Relationship Between Business Reopenings, Covid-19, and Consumer Behavior
Diane Alexander, Ezra Karger, Amanda McFarland | 2020 | No. 445 | August Download

Working Papers
Heterogeneous Impacts of Sentencing Decisions
Andrew Jordan, Ezra Karger, Derek Neal | 2022 | No. 2022-02 | January Download
The Returns to Public Library Investment (REVISED July 2021)
Gregory Gilpin, Ezra Karger, Peter Nencka | 2021 | No. 2021-06 | April Download
Tracking U.S. Consumers in Real Time with a New Weekly Index of Retail Trade (REVISED November 2021)
Scott A. Brave, Michael Fogarty, Daniel Aaronson, Ezra Karger, Spencer Krane | 2021 | No. 2021-05 | March Download
Do Stay-at-Home Orders Cause People to Stay at Home? Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Consumer Behavior (REVISED August 2021)
Diane Alexander, Ezra Karger | 2020 | No. 2020-12 | May Download
Heterogeneity in the Marginal Propensity to Consume: Evidence from Covid-19 Stimulus Payments (REVISED February 2021)
Ezra Karger, Aastha Rajan | 2020 | No. 2020-15 | May Download

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