Date:
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"The Greener Gender: Women Politicians and Deforestation in Brazil"
Speaker:
Kathryn Baragwanath, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.
Moderator:
Steve Levitsky, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.
Registration:
This event is hybrid. Please register to attend this event via Zoom.
Contact:
Darinelle Merced-Calderon
dmercedcalderon@fas.harvard.edu
Presented by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Abstract:
This paper examines the impact of women’s political representation on deforestation rates in Brazil. Using close election regression discontinuity design, we show that women, when elected to office, are more likely to drive improved environmental outcomes due to factors such as reduced access to corrupt networks that influence the enforcement of environmental laws at the local level. Altogether, our findings demonstrate that women’s political representation significantly reduces deforestation rates in the Brazil.
