I am an environmental economist at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). I am affiliated with CEEP, the Climate School, and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). From 2023 to 2024, I was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). I study how forecasts and other types of information affect actions in settings including adaptation to climate change, risk-taking in research, and time use. These days, I am especially fascinated by how people perceive and use weather forecasts—a decades-long information intervention going on every hour of the day, all around the world.

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Jeffrey Shrader
Associate Professor (without tenure)
Columbia University, SIPA

jgs2103@columbia.edu
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New working paper, coauthored with Tarikua Erda, on how people are judged for wearing different hair styles, focusing on academic settings. Black women face the strongest penalties for wearing natural hair styles.

Assume we have a time machine and transport ourselves to the year 2100. Would we, with the benefit of decades of extra data, be able to use purely reduced-form econometric methods to estimate the overall economic damage from climate change? I say no. But I also say that we can make progress on understanding climate change impacts by being more syncretic in our methods and by leveraging knowledge from other (non-climate-related) areas of economics. (...more)

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