Jeffrey Shrader

Focus area: environmental economics 

Jeffrey Shrader is an Associate Professor (without tenure) at SIPA. His work focuses on the role of expectations and forecasts in helping individuals prepare for changing environmental and economic conditions, with a particular focus on the effects of climate change. 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.

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. From 2023 to 2024, he was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a component of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. 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.

Education

• PhD, UC San Diego
• MA, UC San Diego
• BA, Columbia University

Honors and Awards

• Ben Horne Memorial Prize
• Clive Granger Research Fellowship
• NOAA Sea Grant
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• WFA Award for the Best Paper on Financial Institutions
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Columbia University Departmental Honors in Economics