Jason Houle

Selected Publications

• 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, Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.02.002 

• 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329496520974018    

• Sun, Amy Rui Ning (Dartmouth '17)† and Jason Houle. 2020. "Trajectories of Debt Across the Life Course and Mental Health at Mid Life."  Society and Mental Health 10:61-79. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156869318816742

  †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.  https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649218790989

• Berger, Lawrence and Jason Houle. 2019. "Household Debt and Child Development Trajectories."  Demography 56:1273-1301.
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-019-00800-7

• Mackenzie, Todd, Jason Houle, Steven Jiang, and Tracy Onega. 2019. "Middle-aged Death and Taxes in the USA: Association of State Tax Burden and Expenditure in 2005 with Survival from 2006 to 2015." PLOS One 14(4):e0214463. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214463

   

• Houle, Jason and Lonnie Berger. 2017. "Children with Disabilities and Trajectories of Parents' Unsecured Debt Across the Life Course." Social Science Research 64:184-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.10.006

• Houle, Jason and Michael T. Light. 2017. "The Harder They Fall? Race and Sex Specific Suicide Rates in the Foreclosure Crisis." Social Science & Medicine 180:114-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.033

• Houle, Jason N., and Cody Warner. 2017. "Into the Red and Back to the Nest? Student Debt, College Completion, and Returning to the Parental Home among Yount Adults." Sociology of Education  Vol. 90:(1) 89-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040716685873

• 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. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12552-016-9162-0

   

• Lonnie Berger and Jason Houle. 2016. "Parental Debt and Childrens' Socioeomotional Well-being." Pediatrics 137:1-8. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2015-3059

• Houle, Jason and Lonnie Berger. 2015. "Is Student Loan Debt Discouraging Home Buying Among Young Adults?" Social Service Review 89:589-621.