Jeffrey Shrader

The expected rate of decarbonization of the economy is strongly determined by the expected rate of technological progress in lower-polluting energy sources. As discussed in the recent review article by [Dugoua and Moscona](https://www.nber.org/papers/w34601), technological progress towards greener energy faces a wide range challenges, some unique to green tech but many shared by other technologies. (...more)

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)

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.

Nature Communications has now published Global Inequalities in Weather Forecasts!

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.

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!