Time Use and Labor Productivity: The Returns to Sleep (forthcoming)
Review of Economics and Statistics
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Focus areas: environmental economics, labor economics
Jeffrey Shrader is an Assistant Professor at SIPA. His research areas include environmental and labor economics. His work focuses on the role of expectations and forecasts in helping individuals prepare for changing environmental and economic conditions. This work helps policymakers understand the benefits and limitations of information-based policy interventions and sheds light on the total economic costs of environmental changes. Shrader also studies how individuals choose to use their time and the implications that time use decisions have for economic productivity.
Prior to joining SIPA, he was the 2017–2018 Economic Fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law. At the Institute, he worked to improve federal and state decision-making related to climate, environmental, and energy policies. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego and a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Columbia University.
Review of Economics and Statistics
The European Physical Journal: Special Topics
Andrew Wilson, Danny Bressler, and Jeffrey Shrader reshape our understanding of heat vulnerability: their study in Mexico reveals people under 35 — especially outdoor workers — bear the greatest burden of rising temperatures.
Researchers, including SIPA's Jeffrey Shrader, said the findings challenge the conventional belief that the elderly population are especially vulnerable to extreme heat on its head.
Jeffrey Shrader and co-authors found in study that making forecasts 50% more accurate would save more lives and have a net value that’s nearly twice the annual budget of the National Weather Service.
Jeffrey Shrader said “when the forecasts underplayed the risk, even small forecast errors led to more deaths.”
Jeff Shrader and co-authors determined that “making forecasts 50% more accurate would save 2,200 lives per year across the country.”