Michael Hout

Ph.D. 1976 (Sociology), Indiana University;

M.A. 1973 (Sociology); B.A. 1972 (Sociology and History), University of Pittsburgh.

Inequality; Social Change; Demography; and Quantitative Methods

Published Articles and Chapters:

2021. Hout, Michael, and Christopher J. Maggio. 2021. “Immigration, Race, and Political Polarization." Daedalus 150 (2) (Spring): forthcoming. [no link yet]

2020. Douds, Kiara W., and Michael Hout. “Microaggressions in the United States.” Sociological Science 7: 528-543. [link]

2020. Marsden, Peter V., Tom W. Smith, and Michael Hout. "Tracking U.S. Social Change over a Half Century:  The GSS at Fifty." Annual Review of Sociology 46: 109-134. [link]

2020. Groves, Robert, Mary Travis Bassett, and Michael Hout. “Encouraging Participation and Cooperation and Participation in Contract Tracing.” National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.SEAN Rapid Consultation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. [link]

2019. Grusky, David B., Michael Hout, Timothy M. Smeeding, and C. Matthew Snipp. "The American Opportunity Study: A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Outcomes, Evaluating Policy, and Advancing Basic Science" RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5: 20-39. [link]

2019. Eaton, Charlie, Sheisha Kulkarni, Robert Birgeneau, Henry Brady, and Michael Hout. "The Organizational Ecology of College Affordability: Research Activity, State Grant Aid Policies, and Student Debt at U.S. Public Universities." Socius 4: 1-19. [link]

2017. Hout, Michael. “Religious Ambivalence, Liminality, and the Increase of No Religious Preference in the United States, 2006-2014.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55: 52-63. [link]

2016. Hout, Michael and Orestes P. Hastings. “Reliability of the Core Items in the General Social Survey: Estimates from the Three-wave Panels, 2006–2014.” Sociological Science 3: 971-1002. [link]

2016. Hout, Michael. “Money and Morale: Growing Inequality Affects How Americans View Themselves and Others.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 663: 204-228. [link]

2016. Hout, Michael. “St. Peter’s Leaky Boat: Falling Intergenerational Persistence Among US-Born Catholics Since 1974.” Sociology of Religion 77: 1-17. [link]