

Columbia University

Jeffrey Shrader
Associate Professor (without tenure)
Columbia University, SIPA
jgs2103@columbia.edu
Office hours: click here to book. Appointments are generally Mondays or Thursdays.
2026-10-17
Recently, I was reading about what research says about running training and marathon performance. Some large-scale studies that use Strava data are nicely summarized [here](https://runnersconnect.net/sub-3-marathon-training/). The article is great and informative. But it also includes a perfect example of a particularly counterintuitive and interesting way that data can be misleading about causality. (...more)
2026-09-15
Here you can listen to a podcast I did with Martha Wells for Resources Radio on my recent publication on global inequalities in weather forecasts.
2026-09-14
Nature Communications has now published Global Inequalities in Weather Forecasts!
2026-08-25
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.
2026-07-20
Global Inequalities in Weather Forecasts, coauthored with Manuel Linsenmeier, has now been accepted at Nature Communications, making it my 5th publication or accepted paper of the year so far!
2026-04-20
SIPA has released a Q&A with me and Stephan Thies on our new paper in PNAS.