Economists Win WISH/Project SAGES Seed Proposal Award

Left to Right: Professor Cuicui Chen, PhD student Chunyu Guo and Professor Daiqiang Zhang

A research project by Professor Cuicui Chen, Professor Daiqiang Zhang and PhD candidate Chunyu Guo won the WISH/Project SAGES Seed Proposal Award. Their research project is entitled as "Distributional Impacts of Electrifying the Trucking Industry." The project aims to identify charging infrastructure designs under which truck electrification improves environmental justice and to quantify the role of charging infrastructure in mediating the distributional impacts of electric trucks.