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)

Latest news and updates

2024-11-10

New working paper: Competition Constrains Adaptation to Climate Shocks. Part of a new series of papers I am working on focused on the costs and constraints people face when adapting to climate shocks. This paper finds that greater market competition reduces the amount of adaptation in the consumer finance sector in Ghana.

2024-10-16

New report on the Frontiers of Benefit-Cost Analysis! Find it here. I am proud to have helped draft this report while I was at OIRA, and it is great to see it published! The first report in the series can be found here.

2024-08-22

A write-up about my talk at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health is now online here.

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