Leveraging the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) to design and implement more effective and inclusive community-based programs Insights into gender and food security.

🆕 #Blog Leveraging the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (#WEAI) to design and implement more effective and inclusive community-based programs

🖊️ By Samantha Chai and Daniel Lam.

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If you are using the #weai program in #Stata to calculate the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), it's time to upgrade to version 2.0 which includes a critical bug fix!

To reinstall write "ssc install weai" in your command line.

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A group photo before heading to the AERE-sponsored reception

Participants in the Natural Disasters and Health session

At the reception

At the reception 2

AERE@WEAI hosted 16 🌎 environmental and resource economics 📊 sessions with 53 presentations at the 100th #WEAI Conference in San Francisco! 🥳
Huge thanks to everyone who presented, attended, and helped make this milestone event such a success! 🎉
#Econsky

Presenting latest work on "Minimum wages and vertical restraints" at #weai conference, SF. Interested in how franchise chain laws interact with min wage? Please drop by our session: Imperfect competition in labor markets: June 23rd (12:30-2:15 session) at Pacific C.

I’m hosting a Session at #WEAI100: STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
🗓 Sun, Jun 22 | 10:15–12 PDT
📍 SF Marriott Marquis, L2, Foothill D
Papers on:
🎮 Nationalism in games
🚕 Market homophily
💡 Online Knowledge contributions
🔥 Hot-hand belief
#WEAI #BehavioralEcon #Econsky

🔗 Learn more about WEAI here: weai.ifpri.info

#IFPRI50 #IFPRI50Innovations #WEAI #ProWEAI #WomensEmpowerment #WomenInAgriculture #Research #SDG5 #IWD2025
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Calculating the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) using Stata - Malick Dione, Greg Seymour, Nathaniel Ferguson, Hazel Malapit, 2024 The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a standardized, survey-based tool that has been widely used to track gender equality and measure empowerm...

Some good news to start 2025! You can now calculate ALL versions of the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) on #Stata using the #weai program: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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I am planning on having a paper ready a spring/early summer #EconConf and have been thinking about submitting to #WEAI. Does anyone have a sense if it's feasible to submit solo or is it better to submit as a full session?

Follow-up does anyone want to be part of a panel with me?

#EconSky

SoftBank Finally Gets Its Piece of OpenAI The internet didn’t hold back in mocking OpenAI and SoftBank in response to my scoop on SoftBank’s Vision Fund investing $500 million at a $150 billion pre-investment valuation in the ChatGPT develope...

In other news, OpenAI to rebrand as "WeAI" with SoftBank's investment ;) @softbank @openai @theinformation #llm #weai www.theinformation.com/articles/sof...

If you are attending the #WEAI conference tomorrow, please consider attending our session on economic impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Coming up! 👇 #reproducibility #econsky #seattle #weai