Female Labour Market Behaviour and Fertility: A Rational-Choice Approach

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 558-559
Author(s):  
Toni Falbo
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
Choice Approach ◽  
Market Behaviour

The Estimation of Models of Labour Market Behaviour

1983 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chesher ◽  
Tony Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Behaviour

Expansion of the Rational Choice Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-49
Author(s):  
Jonathan S Simmons ◽  
Stephen A Kent
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Control Functions ◽  
Theory Of Religion ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
Choice Approach

Using primary documents from the Children of God and interviews with current and former members, we argue that commitment to this deviant Christian group during the 1970s must be understood as a complex system of immediate an compensatory rewards and punishments. By arguing in this manner, we critically expand upon the Stark/Bainbridge theory of religion, which underemphasizes or ignores the crucial control functions played by punishment systems. Children of God’s punishment system involved purposive, affective, material, and sensual or bodily restraints, which operated both on immediate and postponed (i.e., otherworldly) levels.

Altruismus, Moralität und Vertrauen

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Braun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Individual Rationality ◽  
Social Efficiency ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Individual Decision Making ◽  
Choice Approach

AbstractSuccessful trust-relations exist if the trustee reciprocates in accordance with his/her promises to the trustor’s unilateral cooperation. Using a parametric rational choice approach, Coleman shows that an egoist without a moral conscience may place trust in another unmoral egoist. Consequently, successful trust-relations between those actors are possible if strategic considerations play no role for individual decision-making. This paper focusses on such considerations for the emergence of those relations, given complete information (in the sense of common knowledge) of the players. Generally, trust-relations are hard to establish if unmoral egoists take into account their strategic interdependence. It is shown that two different motivations of the trustee, viz., altruism and morality, may suffice to overcome the characteristic conflict between individual rationality and social efficiency in situations with strategically deciding actors.

scholarly journals ‘Pathways to choice’ of care setting

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH HILLCOAT-NALLÉTAMBY
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Choice Making ◽  
Care Requirements ◽  
Events Data ◽  
Choice Approach ◽  
Choice Of Care

ABSTRACTThis article aims to encourage critical reflection about the limitations of the rational choice approach as an explanatory insight to understanding older people's choice-making about their health or social care requirements. It develops an interpretive framework examining how older people engage in the process of choice-making when selecting a care option. Choice-making is conceptualised as a temporal, processual phenomenon, influenced by others, and characterised by an individual's behavioural responses to changing circumstance and lifecourse events. Data are from qualitative interviews with 29 older adults whose choice of care option involved moving to an extra-care setting in Wales (United Kingdom). Transcripts were coded using in-case and constant-comparison approaches, and analysis was undertaken using concepts ofengagementandtemporalityas elements of the choice-making process. Using an inductive approach, a typology of six different ‘pathways to choice’ of care setting was identified; these findings suggest that choosing a care option in later life is a diverse, interactive and time-bound social phenomenon, inadequately captured by the rational choice approach where it is understood more as an individualised, linear and logical process. Recognising that choice-making evolves through time as part of a process shaped by others means service providers will be better positioned to offer opportunities for more preventative-focused interventions which empower older consumers to make planned and informed choices about care options.

Dictatorship: Analytical Approaches

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Wintrobe
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
The North ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
Choice Approach

This article provides a survey of the work on authoritarianism, which takes an ‘economic’ or rational choice approach. The survey focuses mainly on two issues: the behaviour of dictators and the comparison of their economic performance and redistributive tendencies with democracies. It outlines the author's model about the behaviour of dictators, and then moves on to more recent contributions, such as the important developments within the North framework. The article also examines the Olson model and then studies recent work on economic performance and on redistribution. Theory and evidence are the main focus of the discussion.

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