Impact of gender diversity on several approaches

• Grant number: 22/05452-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2022
• End date: August 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Regional and Urban Economics
• Principal Investigator: André Luis Squarize Chagas
• Grantee: Eduarda Miller de Figueiredo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contabilidade e Atuária (FEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/50848-9 - INCT 2014: INCT for Climate Change, AP.PFPMCG.TEM

Abstract

Through an interdisciplinary analysis, this project aims at a better understanding of the female gender impact on different aspects of brazilian reality, based on the relevance of gender equality as a fundamental element for global sustainable development. The first study is based on an gender diversity analysis regarding adaptation to climate changes, examining the factors that highlight these differences. Previous literature suggests that low income households headed by women are more vulnerable to climate change in developing countries. We proppose an estimation through a multivariate probit model to assess the elements that affect household decisions concerning climate change adaptation strategies. In the second study we proppose an assessment of the impact of women that are in board positions over the level of wages of their female employees, as well as, to evaluate women manager's competence to discriminate different social minorities' heterogeneities. The literature reveals that the presence of women on the firm's board impact on the wage distribution of the women that work on these firms. We proppose a bidirectional fixed effect model with endogeneity control a la Heckman (1979). Finally, in the third study aims at filling the existent gap in literature regarding the impact of women's presence on firms' board over brazilian firms' performance. In this sense, we proppose a robust strategy to evaluate the impact of female boarding on brazilian firms'. Therefore, with these studies we intend to obtain results about topics that lack empirical evidence from an economic, environmental and social point of view, confronting the challenges of global sustainable development.