In the Media
Should We Ban Gasoline Cars?
Jun 17, 2021 // Erin Mansur and coauthors Stephen Holland and Andrew Yates provide a framework for assessing costs and benefits, elucidating key unknown parameters, and designing effective policies to discourage the use of gasoline.
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How Green Are Electric Vehicles?
Mar 02, 2021 // Cites the paper "Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation," co-authored by Erin Mansur.
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Business School Research with Social Impact
Feb 23, 2020 // Highlights research by Erin Mansur and Emily Blanchard among the top 100 business school studies with social impact in the last five years, accounting for references ranging from academic citations to policy documents, social media posts, and more.
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Do Electric Vehicles Help the Environment?
Apr 21, 2017 // Cites the paper “Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance of Local Factors,” co-authored by Erin Mansur, the Revers Professor of Business Administration, in an article about whether electric-vehicles (EV) are truly better for the environment.
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Why Electric Cars Are Only as Clean as Their Power Supply
Dec 06, 2016 // Cites the paper “Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Marginal Emissions: Implications for Electric Cars and Other Electricity-Shifting Policies,” co-authored by Erin Mansur, the Revers Professor of Business Administration, in an article about how electric car emission impact is highly dependent on how the electricity
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The Surprisingly Unequal Benefits of Electric Vehicles, Mapped
Dec 05, 2016 // Cites the paper “Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption,” co-authored by Erin Mansur, in an article about whether electric-vehicles (EV) are truly better for the environment.
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The ZEV’s invisible tailpipe
Nov 25, 2014 // Features a study by Erin Mansur and his colleagues that looks at emissions caused by marginal increases in electricity demand, in different parts of the country, at different times of the day.
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Are Electric Cars Greener? Depends on Where You Live.
Nov 17, 2014 // Erin Mansur writes that electric vehicles result in more carbon dioxide emissions than gas vehicles in regions where electricity is produced from coal.
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