Cses Working Paper Series

CSES Working Paper Series Paper # 30 Richard Swedberg The Centrality of Materiality : Economics and Technology from Xenophon and Onwards September 2005

Comparative evaluation of three egg production systems: Housing characteristics and management practices

This paper is an integral part of the special publication series that arose from the multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project of the Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply (CSES). The CSES project involves 3 housing systems for egg production at the same research farm site in the Midwest, USA, namely, a conventional cage (CC) house, an aviary (AV) house, and an enriched colony (EC) house...

IT's Fatal Amnesia

If Guinness World Records gave out an award for prolonged futility in successfully developing a US state government IT system, then South Carolina’s Department of Social Services would surely be a contender for the “honor,” in recognition of its protracted attempt to create an automated child-support enforcement system (CSES). The system, which is intended to aid courtordered child-support coll...

The Role of Exports, FDI and Imports in Development: New Evidence from Sub- Saharan African Countries

The disappointing economic performance of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies in the late 1980s prompted economic-wide policy reforms in the early 1990s. The primary objectives of these institutional and structural changes were to promote trade and export activities, enhance foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, and ease foreign access to SSA markets particularly for large multinational ente...

Differential Recall Bias, Intermediate Confounding, and Mediation Analysis in Life Course Epidemiology: An Analytic Framework with Empirical Example

The mechanisms by which childhood socioeconomic status (CSES) affects adult mental health, general health, and well-being are not clear. Moreover, the analytical assumptions employed when assessing mediation in social and psychiatric epidemiology are rarely explained. The aim of this paper was to explain the intermediate confounding assumption, and to quantify differential recall bias in the as...

Men's self-definitions of abusive childhood sexual experiences, and potentially related risky behavioral and psychiatric outcomes.

OBJECTIVES To estimate how many heterosexual and gay/bisexual men self-define abusive childhood sexual experiences (CSEs) to be childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and to assess whether CSA self-definition is associated with risky behavioral and psychiatric outcomes in adulthood. METHODS In Philadelphia County, 197 (66%) of 298 recruited men participated in a telephone survey. They were screened for...