Responsibly evaluating different paths toward decarbonization of the energy system requires understanding how the benefits and burdens created are distributed across racial, economic, and geographic groups. This grant, led by Catie Hausman at the University of Maryland and Arik Levinson at Georgetown University, funds an initiative by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to stimulate high quality research that examines the distributional equity dimensions of energy decarbonization in the United States.  NBER will hold two broad and open call for new research papers on these topics, one focusing on research examining the distributional effects of new energy technologies and the other focusing on the distributional effects of new energy policies.  The initiative expects to produce a total of 16 original high-quality papers on these topics, and the papers for each call will be shared with other scholars and experts at dissemination workshops.