Jason Houle
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology
Affiliate, Quantitative Social Science Program
Area of Expertise
Mental health,
Health disparities,
Social stratification and mobility,
Household debt,
Quantitative methods
Education
PhD, Sociology and Demography The Pennsylvania State University, 2011
MA, Sociology and DemographyThe Pennsylvania State University, 2007
BA, University of Maine, Sociology, 2005
Taught Courses
Publications
Rhodes, Alec, Rachel Dwyer, and Jason Houle. 2024. "Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health:
Evidence from a Cohort of U.S. Young Adults." Forthcoming, Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Berger, Lonnie, Meta Brown, J. Michael Collins, Rachel Dwyer, Jason Houle, Stephanie Moulton, Davon Norris, and Matthew Pesavento. 2024. "Inequality in High-Cost Borrowing and Unemployment Insurance Generosity during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Nature Human Behaviour
Brantez, Jessica† and Jason Houle. 2024. "Revisiting Durkheim: Social Integration and Suicide Clusters." Society and Mental Health 14:91-112
†Dartmouth undergraduate student mentee
Boutcher, Steve, Jason Houle, Carroll Seron, and Anna Raup-Kounovsky. 2023. "A Faustian Bargain? The Role of Debt in Law Student Career Choices." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 20:166-195.
Houle, Jason and Fenaba Addo. 2022. A Dream Defaulted: The Student Debt Crisis Among Black Borrowers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press
Lippert, Adam, Jason Houle, and Katrina Walsemann. 2022. "Student Debt and Cardiovascular Disease
Risk Among U.S. Adults in Early Mid-Life" American Journal of Preventative Medicine 63:151-159.
Warner, Cody, Jason Houle, and Joshua Kaiser. 2021. "Criminal Justice Contact and Indebtedness in
Young Adulthood: Examining the Role of State Hidden Sentence Policies" Social Currents 8:203-228.;
Sun, Rui Ning† and Jason Houle. 2020. "Trajectories of Debt Across the Life Course and Mental Health at Mid Life." Society and Mental Health 10:61-79.
†Dartmouth undergraduate student mentee
Houle, Jason and Fenaba Addo. 2019. "Racial Disparities in Student Loan Debt and the Reproduction of
The Fragile Black Middle Class." Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, 5:562-577.
Berger, Lawrence and Jason Houle. 2019. "Rising Household Debt and Children's Socioemotional Well-Being Trajectories" Demography 56:1273-1301.
Houle, Jason and Cody Warner. 2017. "Into the Red and Back to the Nest? Student Debt, College
Completion, and Returning to the Parental Home among Young Adults." Sociology of Education 90:89-108.
Berger, Lawrence and Jason Houle. 2016. "Parental Debt and Childrens' Socioeomotional Well-being." Pediatrics 137:1-8.
Addo, Fenaba, Jason Houle, and Daniel Simon. 2016. "Young, Black, and (Still) In the Red: Parental Wealth, Race, and Student Loan Debt." Race and Social Problems 8:64-76.
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