Faculty Research
Did the U.S. Just Start a Climate Trade War?
The Inflation Reduction Act subsidizes domestic production of electric vehicles and carbon-reducing technologies, but at the potential cost of angering...
Student Research
New England’s electricity transmission system needs a makeover. A new report shows how that could happen.
Dartmouth engineering professor, Amro Farid explains the transmission system is responsible for handling our electricity, like a network of highways...
Faculty Research
The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles
Joint research by Professor Erin Mansur on the potential for electric vehicles to transform personal transportation.
Student Research
The Impact of China’s Ban on Imports of Recyclables on U.S. Waste Management Industry by Maxime Pinto T’20 and Deepak Sankaran T’20
In January 2018 China implemented National Sword, a policy designed to severely restrict the quantity and quality of imported recyclable material...
Faculty Research
The Environmental Benefits from Transportation Electrification: Urban Electric Buses
Joint research by Erin Mansur on the environmental benefit of using electric buses rather than diesel or CNG for urban...
Faculty Research
Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation
Joint research by Professor Erin Mansur that calculates the economic value of the decline in emissions from U.S. power...
Faculty Research
Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption
Joint research by Professor Erin Mansur that examines the distributional effects of changes in local air pollution from driving electric...
Faculty Research
Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets: A Revealed Preference Approach using the Shale Revolution
Joint research by Professor Erin Mansur that examines how carbon pricing would reduce emissions in the electricity sector.
Faculty Research
Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution
Joint research by Professor Erin Mansur that tracks the geographic and temporal propagation of local economic shocks from new oil...
Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance of Local Factors
We combine a theoretical discrete-choice model of vehicle purchases, an econometric analysis of electricity emissions, and the AP2 air pollution...
Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution
The combining of horizontal drilling technology with hydrofracturing has unleashed a boom in oil and gas production in several hundred...
Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets
This paper, by Joseph A. Cullen and Erin T. Mansur, examines how much carbon emissions from the electricity industry would...
The Impact of Dynamic Capabilities on Resource Access and Development
This study analyzes dynamic capabilities that support activities directed toward accessing resources and further developing resources to make them commercially...
Damages and Expected Deaths Due to Excess NOx Emissions from 2009 to 2015 Volkswagen Diesel Vehicles
Featured in Environmental Science & Technology, this study estimates the damages and deaths relating to Volkswagen Diesel Vehicles as a result...
Measuring climatic impacts on energy consumption: A review of the empirical literature
This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between climate and the energy sector. In particular, it discusses empirical papers...
Marginal emissions: Implications for electric cars and other electricity-shifting policies
In this paper, a methodology is developed for estimating marginal emissions of electricity demand that vary by location and time...