M De Vaan
Biographic Data
| ID | 41801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M De Vaan |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | De Vaan |
| SIGNATURE | DE VAAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1971-7290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Friends on the Other Side: Receptiveness to Opposing Views Predicts Formation of Politically Heterogeneous Relationships
Growing evidence points to the corrosive influence of partisanship on society. We examine the relationship between “receptiveness to opposing views” (i.e., an individual difference in the willingness to engage with information from opposing perspectives) and the propensity to form positive and close collaborative relationships with ideologically opposed others. Across three studies varying in sampling and methodological approaches—a retrospective…
Referral Triads
Third parties who refer clients to expert service providers help clients navigate market uncertainty by curating well-tailored matches between clients and experts and by facilitating post-match trust. We argue that these two functions often entail trade-offs because they require referrers to activate network relationships with different experts. While strong ties between referrers and experts promote trust between clients and experts, the presenc…
Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment
Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report on a field experiment conducted by The Dutch Research Council (NWO) in collaboration with the authors in an early-career competition for awards of 800,000 euros of research funding. A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph…
Gender in the Markets for Expertise
Stratification in professional careers arises in part from interpersonal dynamics in client-expert dyads. To reduce perceived uncertainty in judgments of the quality of experts, clients may rely on ascriptive characteristics of experts and on pairwise, relational factors to assess the advice they receive. Two such characteristics, expert gender and client-expert gender concordance, may lead to differences in clients' trust in expert advice. To ex…
Mutual Receptiveness to Opposing Views Bridges Ideological Divides in Network Formation
Friends on the Other Side: Receptiveness to Opposing Views Predicts Formation of Politically Heterogeneous Relationships
Growing evidence points to the corrosive influence of partisanship on society. We examine the relationship between “receptiveness to opposing views” (i.e., an individual difference in the willingness to engage with information from opposing perspectives) and the propensity to form positive and close collaborative relationships with ideologically opposed others. Across three studies varying in sampling and methodological approaches—a retrospective…
Micro-structural foundations of network inequality: Evidence from a field experiment in professional networking
Sociological accounts of network inequality typically rely on the logic of preferential attachment, holding that individuals in a social network prefer to form ties with central rather than peripheral actors. We develop an alternative explanation for the growth of network inequality that does not require actors to have knowledge about the social position of others or to hold explicit preferences for partners based on such knowledge. Instead, we t…
Does Intra-household Contagion Cause an Increase in Prescription Opioid Use
Opioid use claims many thousands of lives each year. This article considers the diffusion of prescription opioid (PO) use within family households as one potential culprit of the proliferation of these medications. In an analysis of hundreds of millions of medical claims and almost 14 million opioid prescriptions in one state between 2010 and 2015, we show that the use of POs spreads within family households. We also show that the treatment effec…
The Downside of Social Capital in New Industry Creation
In this article we develop and test the hypothesis that social capital, defined as a regional characteristic, discourages entrepreneurship in a new and contested industry. The argument follows the logic that high levels of social capital reinforce conformity in values and ideas, and inhibit deviant entrepreneurial activity. Once an industry becomes more legitimized—as a result of an increase in the number of firms present in a region—social capit…
The Matthew effect in science funding
Significance Why do scientists with similar backgrounds and abilities often end up achieving very different degrees of success? A classic explanation is that academic achievement exhibits a “Matthew effect”: Early successes increase future success chances. We analyze data from a large academic funding program that present a unique opportunity to quantify the Matthew effect and identify generative mechanisms. Our results show that winners just abo…
Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity
Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообществ…
The dynamics of interfirm networks along the industry life cycle: The case of the global video game industry, 1987–2007
In this article, we study the formation of network ties between firms along the life cycle of a creative industry. We focus on three mechanisms that drive network formation: (i) network endogeneity which stresses a path-dependent change originating from previous network structures, (ii) five forms of proximity (e.g. geographical proximity) which ascribe tie formation to the similarity of attributes of firms and (iii) individual characteristics wh…
Clustering and firm performance in project-based industries: The case of the global video game industry, 1972-2007
Explanations of spatial clustering based on localization externalities are being \nquestioned by recent empirical evidence showing that firms in clusters do not \noutperform firms outside clusters. We propose that these findings may be driven by \nthe particularities of the industrial settings chosen in these studies. We argue that \nin project-based industries, negative localization externalities associated with \ncompetition grow proportionally…
The colophon of Avestan manuscripts Pt4 and Mf4
L'article presente une nouvelle transcription, translitteration et traduction de la partie centrale du colophon pehlevi des manuscrits avestiques Pt4 et Mf4, dans lequel est relatee l'histoire des manuscrits. Ceci nous amene a interpreter la preface differemment de nos predecesseurs : la reunion du texte avestique et du texte pehlevi dans un meme manuscrit doit etre datee d'avant 1020, et pas d'une date plus tardive comme il etait admis jusqu'a p…
Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity
Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообществ…
The dynamics of interfirm networks along the industry life cycle: The case of the global video game industry, 1987–2007
In this article, we study the formation of network ties between firms along the life cycle of a creative industry. We focus on three mechanisms that drive network formation: (i) network endogeneity which stresses a path-dependent change originating from previous network structures, (ii) five forms of proximity (e.g. geographical proximity) which ascribe tie formation to the similarity of attributes of firms and (iii) individual characteristics wh…
Does Intra-household Contagion Cause an Increase in Prescription Opioid Use
Opioid use claims many thousands of lives each year. This article considers the diffusion of prescription opioid (PO) use within family households as one potential culprit of the proliferation of these medications. In an analysis of hundreds of millions of medical claims and almost 14 million opioid prescriptions in one state between 2010 and 2015, we show that the use of POs spreads within family households. We also show that the treatment effec…
Clustering and firm performance in project-based industries: The case of the global video game industry, 1972-2007
Explanations of spatial clustering based on localization externalities are being \nquestioned by recent empirical evidence showing that firms in clusters do not \noutperform firms outside clusters. We propose that these findings may be driven by \nthe particularities of the industrial settings chosen in these studies. We argue that \nin project-based industries, negative localization externalities associated with \ncompetition grow proportionally…
Gender in the Markets for Expertise
Stratification in professional careers arises in part from interpersonal dynamics in client-expert dyads. To reduce perceived uncertainty in judgments of the quality of experts, clients may rely on ascriptive characteristics of experts and on pairwise, relational factors to assess the advice they receive. Two such characteristics, expert gender and client-expert gender concordance, may lead to differences in clients' trust in expert advice. To ex…
The Downside of Social Capital in New Industry Creation
In this article we develop and test the hypothesis that social capital, defined as a regional characteristic, discourages entrepreneurship in a new and contested industry. The argument follows the logic that high levels of social capital reinforce conformity in values and ideas, and inhibit deviant entrepreneurial activity. Once an industry becomes more legitimized—as a result of an increase in the number of firms present in a region—social capit…
The colophon of Avestan manuscripts Pt4 and Mf4
L'article presente une nouvelle transcription, translitteration et traduction de la partie centrale du colophon pehlevi des manuscrits avestiques Pt4 et Mf4, dans lequel est relatee l'histoire des manuscrits. Ceci nous amene a interpreter la preface differemment de nos predecesseurs : la reunion du texte avestique et du texte pehlevi dans un meme manuscrit doit etre datee d'avant 1020, et pas d'une date plus tardive comme il etait admis jusqu'a p…
The dynamics of interfirm networks along the industry life cycle: The case of the global video game industry, 1987–2007
In this article, we study the formation of network ties between firms along the life cycle of a creative industry. We focus on three mechanisms that drive network formation: (i) network endogeneity which stresses a path-dependent change originating from previous network structures, (ii) five forms of proximity (e.g. geographical proximity) which ascribe tie formation to the similarity of attributes of firms and (iii) individual characteristics wh…
Clustering and firm performance in project-based industries: The case of the global video game industry, 1972-2007
Explanations of spatial clustering based on localization externalities are being \nquestioned by recent empirical evidence showing that firms in clusters do not \noutperform firms outside clusters. We propose that these findings may be driven by \nthe particularities of the industrial settings chosen in these studies. We argue that \nin project-based industries, negative localization externalities associated with \ncompetition grow proportionally…
Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity
Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообществ…
The Matthew effect in science funding
Significance Why do scientists with similar backgrounds and abilities often end up achieving very different degrees of success? A classic explanation is that academic achievement exhibits a “Matthew effect”: Early successes increase future success chances. We analyze data from a large academic funding program that present a unique opportunity to quantify the Matthew effect and identify generative mechanisms. Our results show that winners just abo…
Does Intra-household Contagion Cause an Increase in Prescription Opioid Use
Opioid use claims many thousands of lives each year. This article considers the diffusion of prescription opioid (PO) use within family households as one potential culprit of the proliferation of these medications. In an analysis of hundreds of millions of medical claims and almost 14 million opioid prescriptions in one state between 2010 and 2015, we show that the use of POs spreads within family households. We also show that the treatment effec…
The Downside of Social Capital in New Industry Creation
In this article we develop and test the hypothesis that social capital, defined as a regional characteristic, discourages entrepreneurship in a new and contested industry. The argument follows the logic that high levels of social capital reinforce conformity in values and ideas, and inhibit deviant entrepreneurial activity. Once an industry becomes more legitimized—as a result of an increase in the number of firms present in a region—social capit…
Mutual Receptiveness to Opposing Views Bridges Ideological Divides in Network Formation
Friends on the Other Side: Receptiveness to Opposing Views Predicts Formation of Politically Heterogeneous Relationships
Growing evidence points to the corrosive influence of partisanship on society. We examine the relationship between “receptiveness to opposing views” (i.e., an individual difference in the willingness to engage with information from opposing perspectives) and the propensity to form positive and close collaborative relationships with ideologically opposed others. Across three studies varying in sampling and methodological approaches—a retrospective…
Micro-structural foundations of network inequality: Evidence from a field experiment in professional networking
Sociological accounts of network inequality typically rely on the logic of preferential attachment, holding that individuals in a social network prefer to form ties with central rather than peripheral actors. We develop an alternative explanation for the growth of network inequality that does not require actors to have knowledge about the social position of others or to hold explicit preferences for partners based on such knowledge. Instead, we t…
Gender in the Markets for Expertise
Stratification in professional careers arises in part from interpersonal dynamics in client-expert dyads. To reduce perceived uncertainty in judgments of the quality of experts, clients may rely on ascriptive characteristics of experts and on pairwise, relational factors to assess the advice they receive. Two such characteristics, expert gender and client-expert gender concordance, may lead to differences in clients' trust in expert advice. To ex…
Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment
Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report on a field experiment conducted by The Dutch Research Council (NWO) in collaboration with the authors in an early-career competition for awards of 800,000 euros of research funding. A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph…
Friends on the Other Side: Receptiveness to Opposing Views Predicts Formation of Politically Heterogeneous Relationships
Growing evidence points to the corrosive influence of partisanship on society. We examine the relationship between “receptiveness to opposing views” (i.e., an individual difference in the willingness to engage with information from opposing perspectives) and the propensity to form positive and close collaborative relationships with ideologically opposed others. Across three studies varying in sampling and methodological approaches—a retrospective…
Referral Triads
Third parties who refer clients to expert service providers help clients navigate market uncertainty by curating well-tailored matches between clients and experts and by facilitating post-match trust. We argue that these two functions often entail trade-offs because they require referrers to activate network relationships with different experts. While strong ties between referrers and experts promote trust between clients and experts, the presenc…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (4 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)