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
Columbia University, SIPA

jgs2103@columbia.edu
Office hours: Mondays 9 to 10, IAB 1430A or Thursdays 11 to noon on Zoom (click here to book)

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2025-09-22

Matthew Gibson and I have submitted even more public comments, this time to the EPA on their “Reconsideration of the 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards.”

2025-09-02

Matthew Gibson and I have submitted these public comments to the DOE on their recent climate impacts report. The report does a terrible job accurately portraying the climate impacts literature. Our comments focus on three particular areas where the report team failed to cite many relevant studies—mortality, non-fatal health impacts, and market impacts as measured by GDP.

2025-08-08

Working on a paper recently, I wanted to cite the original Nordhaus DICE paper. The list below is me trying to sort out the publication history. If you see errors, let me know! (...more)

2025-07-27

Running weather regressions and using clustered standard errors? I have a modest proposal to cluster at the National Weather Service (NWS) County Warning Area (CWA) level. (...more)

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