Transportation

Vehicle electrification

From Diesel to Electric: Overcoming Grid Integration Challenges in the Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Sector.  

Final Summary Report: Zero-Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Mandates Workshop

Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification: Challenges, Policy Solutions, and Open Research Questions.

“The Electric Vehicle Rebound Effect”, with Kenneth Gillingham and Marta Talevi. 2024 (work in progress).

“Charging Stations and the City”, with Rachel Wilwerding. 2024 (work in progress)

"Equity in Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure", with Suzanne Russo and Rachel Wilwerding. 2024 (work in progress).

“A tale of two investments: charging stations and purchase subsidies for EV adoption”, with Penny Liao and Bei Luo. 2024 (work in progress)

Critical minerals

"Policy Challenges for Accessing Critical Minerals to Electrify Vehicle Transport", with Mike Toman and Sangita Gayatri Kannan

Electricity pricing for electric vehicles

"The Effect of Electricity Tariff Design on Medium- and Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Fleets", with Eleftheria Kontou, Ben Mandel, Elizabeth Stein, and Alexander Yoshizumi. 2024. (work in progress).

Smart Pricing Principles for Charging Electric Trucks and Buses

Vehicle demand and gasoline prices

“Modeling the shipping sector for policy analysis”, with Josh Linn, Nafisa Lohawala, and Emma DeAngelis. 2024. (work in progress, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation).

 Understanding the Heterogeneous Effects of Gasoline Taxes Across Income and Location

The Effect of Gasoline Taxes and Public Transit Investments on Driving Patterns

Evaluating 'Cash-for-Clunkers': Program Effects on Auto Sales, Jobs and the Environment

Fuel Taxes and the Poor: The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy

Household Vehicle Bundle Choice and Gasoline Demand: A Discrete-Continuous Approach (working paper)

Regulations and Incentives for Alternative Fuels and Alternative Vehicles

Energy

Electricity demand and pricing

Cost-Reflective Residential Electricity Tariff Design: Synthesis of research findings on the impacts on customer bills, adoption of distributed energy resources and pollution

Retail Electricity Tariff Design, Distributed Energy Resources, and Emissions (working paper)

Electricity Demand Simulations on the Distribution Edge: Developing a Granular Representation of End-User Preferences using Smart Meter Data

Creating Representative Profiles from Clustered Non-Electric Heating Customers Load Profiles (technical appendix)

 A Primer on Time-Variant Pricing

Renewables and distributed energy resources

The Role of Electricity Tariff Design in Distributed Energy Resource Deployment

The Environmental Impacts of Green Technologies in TX

The Health Benefits of Solar Power Generation: Evidence from Chile (Forthcoming, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management).

Electric sector regulation

Proactively Planning and Operating Energy Storage for Decarbonization: Recommendations for Policymakers

Policy Brief—Designing Electric Utility Rates: Insights on Achieving Efficiency, Equity, and Environmental Goals

 “How Utility Regulation and Market Design Fuels the ‘Dash to Gas’”, with Gabe Chan. 2023. (work in progress).

Housing markets and land use

The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development

Are Property Values affected by concerns over groundwater contamination from shale?

 “The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act”, with Eyal Frank, Maximillian Auffhammer, David McLaughlin, and David Sunding. 2024. (work in progress).

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