

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.
2026-09-15
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.
2026-04-18
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)