I am an environmental and labor 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). Currently, I am a Senior Advisor at 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.

Contact information

Jeffrey Shrader
Assistant Professor
Columbia University, SIPA
jgs2103@columbia.edu

On leave 2023–2024 as Senior Advisor
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Executive Office of the President
Office hours: email for an appointment

News and updates

2021-12-21

Two of my graduate students, Anna Papp and Vincent Bagilet, have put together a great set of simulations, example datasets, and code to work through many of the new two-way fixed effects/dynamic diff-in-diff methods. The code and data can be found on Anna’s Github page here. This could be a really helpful resource for students and researchers learning about these methods, so let me know if you find it helpful.

2021-12-01

I will be presenting new work on the value of weather forecasts, joint with Derek Lemoine and Laura Bakkensen, at University of Arizona on December 14th.

2021-09-15

The recording of the presentations from UCLA’s Climate Adaptation Symposium are available here. A great event as always!

2021-09-01

The second UCLA Climate Adaptation Research Symposium will take place on September 8th. You can see my new work on the value of routine weather forecasts during the 10:45-12:15 PT session.

2021-06-17

A new version of my paper on estimating damages from weather while accounting for adaptation is available here. Weather forecasts are really cool and they can help us improve our inference about climate damages.

2021-03-15

A new paper evaluating policies to integrate storage into the electricity grid while reducing emissions is now published here. Good policy design really matters here—a popular policy we analyze can actually increase emissions relative to taking no policy action!