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Jeffrey Shrader
Associate Professor
Columbia University, SIPA
jgs2103@columbia.edu
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News and updates
2023-07-15
I have taken a one-year leave to be Senior Advisor at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), a division of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President.
2023-07-12
Derek, Laura, and I have written an op-ed on the role of weather forecasts in saving people’s lives from extreme temperatures. Check it out here at the LA Times.
2023-07-03
“Choose Your Moments: Peer Review and Scientific Risk Taking” is now available as a working paper from the NBER.
2023-06-22
As a super busy June comes to a close, I have another new paper draft available! “Choose Your Moments: Peer Review and Scientific Risk Taking”, coauthored with Richard Carson and Josh Graff Zivin, shows that biomedical scientists in the U.S. would prefer to take more risks than the NIH when funding scientific proposals. We derive the funding rule scientists want the NIH to follow, showing that it would cause a reevaluation of funding for $3 billion worth of medical research each year.
2023-06-19
New paper draft! The paper “Fatal Errors: The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts” is now available as an NBER working paper.
2023-06-18
A new version of the paper “Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism” is available here. It includes the results of a new, large-scale experiment studying how overconfidence can cause procrastination.