Nee Victor - The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research

The HANDBOOK of RATIONAL CHOICE SOCIAL RESEARCH

EDITED BY

Rafael Wittek

Tom A. B. Snijders

Victor Nee

Stanford Social Sciences

An Imprint of Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press

Stanford, California

2013 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The handbook of rational choice social research / edited by Rafael Wittek, Tom A.B. Snijders, and Victor Nee

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8047-8418-4 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-8047-8550-1 (e-book)

1. Rational choice theory. I. Wittek, Rafael, editor of compilation. II. Snijders, T. A. B., editor of compilation. III. Nee, Victor, editor of compilation.

HM495.H36 2013

330.01dc23 2012033972

Typeset at Stanford University Press in 10.5/12 Bembo

Acknowledgments

The editors would like to thank the Russell Sage Foundation for generous support of an author conference at New York City in November 2007, Suzanne Nichols for guidance during the early phase of this project, and four anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions. We also would like to thank Kate Wahl from Stanford University Press for her encouragement, patience, and formidable support. Saskia Simon from the Department of Sociology at the University of Groningen deserves a very special thanks for her high-quality secretarial support in all phases of this project, including the final preparation of the manuscript. Rafael Wittek also gratefully acknowledges funding from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (NWO 016-005-052 and 400-05-704).

Contents

Rafael Wittek, Tom A. B. Snijders, and Victor Nee

Simon Gchter

Siegwart Lindenberg

Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub

Frans N. Stokman, Jelle Van der Knoop, and Reinier C. H. Van Oosten

Karen S. Cook and Coye Cheshire

Henk Flap and Beate Vlker

Tom A. B. Snijders

Ross L. Matsueda

Nan Dirk De Graaf

Victor Nee and Richard Alba

Ignacio Snchez-Cuenca

James D. Morrow

Edgar Kiser and Erin Powers

Carlos Can, Guido Friebel, and Paul Seabright

Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein

Rafael Wittek and Arjen Van Witteloostuijn

Contributors

RICHARD ALBA: Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Center for Urban Research, City University of New York (CUNY). His fields of interest are race, ethnicity, and immigration. His recent books include Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America (Harvard University Press, 2009), The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective (coedited with Mary Waters, NYU Press, 2011), and the award-winning Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (with V. Nee, Harvard University Press, 2003).

VINCENT BUSKENS: Professor of Theoretical Sociology, Utrecht University and Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) and Professor of Empirical Legal Studies, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main research areas are social dilemmas, cooperation, trust, social networks, mathematical sociology, complexity, experimental research, empirical studies on regulation and institutions, sociological applications of neuroscience. He is co-editor of Micro-Macro Links and Microfoundations (with W. Raub and M. van Assen, Routledge, 2012) and eTrust: Forming Relations in the Online World (with K. Cook, C. Snijders and C. Cheshire, Russell Sage, 2009).

CARLOS CAN: Economist at the Financial Stability Division of Banco de Mxico (Mexican Central Bank). He received his PhD from the Toulouse School of Economics with a dissertation on the Theory and Econometric Models of Platforms. His main area of interest is industrial organization, market design, and econometrics.

COYE CHESHIRE: Associate professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. He studies social exchange, interpersonal relationships, and paths of participation in computer-mediated environments. Recent articles have appeared in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Daedalus, and Proceedings of the ACM Conference of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

KAREN S. COOK: Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Her fields of interest are social psychology, organizational behavior, group processes, social networks, and health care. For the Russell Sage Foundation, she has edited Trust in Society (2001), Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Emerging Perspectives (with R. Kramer, 2004), eTrust: Forming Relations in the Online World (with C. Snijders, V. Buskens and C. Cheshire, 2009), and Whom Can We Trust? (with M. Levi and R. Hardin, 2009).

NAN DIRK DE GRAAF: Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. His main research areas are social stratification, cultural sociology, sociology of religion, pro-social behavior, and political sociology. He edited with Geoff Evans Political Choice Matters: Explaining the Strength of Class and Religious Cleavages in Cross-National Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2013). Recent articles have appeared in American Sociological Review, Sociology of Health and Illness, Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

HENK FLAP: Professor of Sociology Utrecht University and Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). His main research interest is social capital. He is editor (with B. Vlker) of Creation and Returns of Social Capital: A New Research Program (2005). Recent articles have appeared in Social Networks, European Sociological Review, and Social Science & Medicine.

NICOLAI J. FOSS: Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Copenhagen Business School and a part-time Professor of Knowledge-based Value Creation at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. His main areas of interest are the theory of the firm, economic organization, and strategy. Among his recent book publications are Management Innovation (with T. Pedersen, J. Pyndt and M. Schultz), Opportunity Discovery and Economic Organization: Entrepreneurship and the Theory of the Firm (with P. Klein, Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Knowledge Governance: Perspectives from Different Disciplines (with Snejina Michailova, Oxford University Press, 2009).

GUIDO FRIEBEL: Professor, Department of Economics and Business, Goethe University Frankfurt. His main area of interest is applied contract theory (organizations and personnel economics), industrial organization and regulation (in particular of railroads), and institutional and transition economics. Recent articles have appeared in American Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Economic Journal.

SIMON GCHTER: Professor of the Psychology of Economic Decision Making at the University of Nottingham, UK. His main area of interest is the role of social norms in economic decision making. He has published in