Jeffrey Shrader
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Personal Details
Focus areas: environmental economics, labor economics
On Partial Leave for the 2023-2024 Academic Year
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.
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
Research And Publications
In The Media
This year’s newcomers include two distinguished experts in international security studies; among high-profile visitors are former senior diplomats from India and Chile.