Publications

Books
Journal Articles and Book Chapters by Topic
Other Publications

Books

2006
Fischer, Claude S., and Michael Hout. Century of Difference: How the Country Changed During the Twentieth Century. Russell Sage Foundation (November).

Greeley, Andrew, and Michael Hout. The Truth About Conservative Christians. University of Chicago Press.

1996
Fischer, Claude S., Michael Hout, Samuel R. Lucas, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss. Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

1989
Hout, Michael. Following in Father's Footsteps: Occupational Mobility in Ireland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

1983
Hout, Michael. Mobility Tables. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage.

           

Journal Articles and Book Chapters by Topic

Inequality and Stratification
Political Sociology
Religion
Methodology
Demography

Inequality and Stratification

2006
Hout, Michael, and Thomas A. DiPrete. "RC28's Contribution to Knowledge: An Assessment and an Agenda for the Future." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 1-20.

Beller, Emily, and Michael Hout. "Welfare States and Social Mobility." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: forthcoming.

Hout, Michael, and Emily Beller. "Intergenerational Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective." The Future of Children 16: 19-36.

Hout, Michael. “Economic Change and Social Mobility.” Ch. 4 in Inequalities of the World, edited by Goran Therborn. London: Verso.

2004
Gerber, Theodore P., and Michael Hout. “Tightening Up: Inter- and Intragenerational Mobility in Russia, 1988-2002.” American Sociological Review 69 (October): 677-703.

Hout, Michael. “Social Mobility and Inequality: A Review and an Agenda.” Forthcoming in Social Consequences of Growing Inequality, edited by Kathryn Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Hout, Michael. “Educational Progress for African Americans and Latinos Since the 1950s.” Forthcoming in Ethnicity and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective, edited by Glenn Loury, Tariq Modood, and Steven Teles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2002
Hout, Michael, “Test Scores, Education, and Poverty.” Pp. 329-54 in Race and Intelligence, edited by Jefferson Fish. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

2000
Fischer, Claude S., Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss). "Inequality by Design." Chapter 2 in Social Stratification (second edition), edited by David B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Hout, Michael, and Harvey S. Rosen. "Self-employment, Race, and Family Background." Journal of Human Resources35: 670-693.

Hout, Michael, “Social Mobility.” 840-841 in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2nd edition), edited by Joel Krieger. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1998
Gerber, Theodore P., and Michael Hout. "More Shock Than Therapy: Employment and Incomes in Russia, 1991-1996." American Journal of Sociology 104 (July): 1-51.

1997
Hout, Michael. "Inequality at the Margins: The Effects of Welfare, the Minimum Wage, and Tax Credits on Low-Wage Labor Markets." Politics and Society 25 (December): 513-524.

Arum, Richard, and Michael Hout. "The Early Returns: School-to-Work Transitions in the United States." Pp. 130-146 in Educational Origins and Class Destinations, edited by Walter Müller and Yossi Shavit. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

1996
Hout, Michael, Richard Arum, and Kim Voss. "The Political Economy of Inequality in the 'Age of Extremes'." Demography 33 (November): 421-425.

Hout, Michael, and Samuel R. Lucas. "Narrowing the Income Gap Between Rich and Poor." Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 August, p. B1. [reprinted in Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, edited by Paula S. Rothenberg. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998].

1995
Gerber, Theodore P., and Michael Hout. "Educational Stratification in Russia During the Soviet Period." American Journal of Sociology 101 (November): 611-660.

Hout, Michael, and Daniel P. Dohan. "Two Paths to Equality of Educational Opportunity: Sweden and the United States Compared." Pp. 121-146 in Equality of Educational Opportunity in Sweden: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Robert Erikson and Janne Jonsson. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Hout, Michael. "Politics of Mobility." Pp. 301-325 in Generating Social Stratification, edited by Alan C. Kerckhoff. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

1993
Raftery, Adrian E., and Michael Hout. "Maximally Maintained Inequality: Educational Stratification in Ireland". Sociology of Education 65 (January): 41-62.

Hout, Michael, Clem Brooks, and Jeff Manza. "Persistence of Classes in Postindustrial Societies." International Sociology 8 (September): 259-278.

Hout, Michael, Adrian E. Raftery, and Eleanor O. Bell. "Making the Grade: Educational Stratification in the United States, 1925-1989." Pp. 25-50 in Persisting Inequality: Educational Stratification in Thirteen Countries, edited by Yossi Shavit and Hans-Peter Blossfeld. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

1992
Hout, Michael, and Robert M. Hauser. "Hierarchy and Symmetry in Occupational Mobility." European Sociological Review 8 (December): 239-266.

1988
Hout, Michael. "More Universalism and Less Structural Mobility: The American Occupational Structure in the 1980s." American Journal of Sociology 93 (May): 1358-1400.

1986
Hout, Michael and John A. Jackson. "Dimensions of Occupational Mobility in the Republic of Ireland." European Sociological Review 2 (September): 114-137.

Hout, Michael. "Opportunity and the Minority Middle Class: A Comparison of Blacks in the U.S. with Catholics in Northern Ireland." American Sociological Review 51 (April): 212-223.

1985
Sobel, Michael E., Michael Hout, and Otis Dudley Duncan. "Exchange, Structure, and Symmetry in Occupational Mobility." American Journal of Sociology 91 (September): 359-372.

Raftery, Adrian E., and Michael Hout. "Does Irish Education Approach the Meritocratic Ideal?" Economic and Social Review 16 (January): 115-140.

1984
Hout, Michael. "Occupational Mobility of Black Men: 1962-1973." American Sociological Review 49 (June): 308-322. [reprinted in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender, edited by David B. Grusky. Boulder: CO: Westview Press, 1994.]

Hout, Michael. "Status, Autonomy, and Training in Occupational Mobility." American Journal of Sociology 89 (May): 1379-1409.

1982
Hout, Michael. "The Association Between Husbands' and Wives' Occupations in Two-Earner Families." American Journal of Sociology 87 (September): 397-409.

1981
Garnier, Maurice A. and Michael Hout. "Schooling Processes and Educational Outcomes in France." Quality and Quantity 15 (Summer): 151-177.

1979
Hout, Michael, and Maurice A. Garnier. "Educational Stratification and Curriculum Placement in France." Sociology of Education 52 (July): 146-156.

1976
Garnier, Maurice A., and Michael Hout. "Inequality of Educational Opportunity in France and the United States." Social Science Research 5 (September): 225-246.

1975
Hout, Michael, and William R. Morgan. "Race and Sex Variations in the Causes of Expected Attainments." American Journal of Sociology 81 (September): 364-394.

Political Sociology

2006
Hout, Michael, and Benjamin Moodie. "The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting, 1948-2004." Forthcoming in Social Stratification: Readings in Class, Race, and Gender, edited by David Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi. Boulder CO: Westview Press.

1999
Hout, Michael. "Abortion Politics in the United States, 1972-1996." Gender Issues 17: 3-34.

Hout, Michael, Jeff Manza, and Clem Brooks. "Classes, Unions, and the Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting, 1952-1992." Pp. 114-130 in The End of Class Politics?, edited by Geoff Evans. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1996
Hout, Michael, Clem Brooks, and Jeff Manza. "Elezioni presidentiali e riallineamento di classe negli Stati Uniti, 1948-1992." Polis 10 (April): 5-24.

1995
Hout, Michael, Clem Brooks, and Jeff Manza. "The Democratic Class Struggle in U.S. Presidential Elections: 1948-1992." American Sociological Review 60 (December): 805-828.

Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks, and Michael Hout. "Class Voting in Western Democracies." Annual Review of Sociology 21:137-163.

1988
Sniderman, Paul M., Philip E. Tetlock, Donald Green, James Glaser, and Michael Hout. "Tolerance and American Democratic Values." British Journal of Political Science 19 (September): 25-45.

1975
Hout, Michael, and David Knoke. "Changes in Voting Turnout: 1952-1972." Public Opinion Quarterly 39 (Spring): 52-62.

1974
Knoke, David, and Michael Hout. "Social and Demographic Factors in American Political Party Preferences." American Sociological Review 39 (October): 700-713.

Religion

2004
Hout, Michael, and Melissa J. Wilde. “Denominational Society Reconsidered.” Forthcoming in The Secularization Debate in Europe and the United States, edited by Alasdair Crockett and Richard O’Leary. London: Taylor Francis.

2003
Hout, Michael. “Demographic Methods for the Study of Religion.” Pp. 145-154 in Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, edited by Michele Dillon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2002
Hout, Michael, and Claude S. Fischer, “Explaining the Rise of Americans with No Religious Preference: Generations and Politics.” American Sociological Review 67: 165-190.

2001
Hout, Michael, Andrew M. Greeley, and Melissa J. Wilde, “The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change.” American Journal of Sociology 107: 468-500.

2000
Hout, Michael, "Alienation Among Divorced and Remarried Catholics in the United States." America:

1999
Greeley, Andrew, and Michael Hout. "Americans' Increasing Belief in Life After Death: Competition and Assimilation." American Sociological Review 65 (December): 813-836.

Greeley, Andrew, and Michael Hout, "Measuring the Strength of the Christian Right." Christian Century 116 (September): 810-813.

1998
Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. "What Church Officials' Reports Don't Show: Another Look at Church Attendance Data." American Sociological Review (February): 113-119.

1993
Hout, Michael. "Counting the Returnees." Catholic World 112 (January): 29-38.

1989
Greeley, Andrew M., and Michael Hout, "The Secularization Myth." The Tablet (10 June): 665-668.

1988
Greeley, Andrew M., and Michael Hout. "Musical Chairs: Patterns of Denominational Change in the United States, 1947-1986." Sociology and Social Research 72 (January): 75-86.

1987
Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. "The Center Doesn't Hold: Church Attendance in the United States, 1940-1984."American Sociological Review 52 (June): 325-345.

Methodology

2004
Evans, William R., Susan Mayer, and Michael Hout. “Inequality Effects” Forthcoming in Social Consequences of Growing Inequality, edited by Kathryn Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

2001
Goodman, Leo A., and Michael Hout. “Statistical Methods and Graphical Displays for Comparing How Two-Way Associations Vary Among Countries, Among Groups, or Over Time, Part II: Some Simple Extensions and Simple Examples.” Sociological Methodology 31: 189-211.

1998
Goodman, Leo A., and Michael Hout. "Statistical Methods and Graphical Displays for Comparing How Two-Way Associations Vary Among Countries, Among Groups, or Over Time." Sociological Methodology 28: 175-239 (with discussion by Yu Xie, pp. 231-236, Kazuo Yamaguchi, pp. 237-248, and Goodman-Hout, pp. 249-262).

1997
Yamashita, Robert C., Thomas Piazza, Howard Besser, Troy Duster, and Michael Hout. "The Quality of the Quantity: Information Technology and the Evaluation of Data." Bulletin of Sociological Methodology 54 (March): 317-325.

1987
Hout, Michael, Otis Dudley Duncan, and Michael E. Sobel. "Association and Heterogeneity: Structural Models of Similarities and Differences." Sociological Methodology 17: 145-184.

1982
Hout, Michael. "Using Uniform Association Models: An Example from Delinquency Research." Pp. 115-128 in Quantitative Criminology: Innovations and Applications, edited by John Hagan. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage.

1977
Hamblin, Robert L., Michael Hout, Jerry L. L. Miller, and Brian L. Pitcher. "Arms Races: A Test of Two Models." American Sociological Review 42 (April): 338-354.

Hout, Michael. "A Cautionary Note on the Use of Two-Stage Least Squares." Sociological Methods and Research 5 (February): 335-346.

Demography

2004
Fischer, Claude S., Gretchen Stockmayer, Jon Stiles, and Michael Hout. “Distinguishing the Levels and Dimensions of U.S. Metropolitan Segregation, 1960-2000.” Demography 41: 37-59.

1994
Hout, Michael, and Joshua R. Goldstein. "How 4.5 Million Irish Immigrants Came to Be 41 Million Irish Americans: Demographic, Social, and Subjective Components of the Ethnic Composition of the White Population of the United States." American Sociological Review 59 (February): 64-82.

1985
Sullivan, Teresa A., Francis P. Gillespie, Michael Hout, and Richard G. Rogers. "Alternative Estimates of Mexican American Mortality in Texas, 1980." Social Science Quarterly 65 (June): 609-617.

1983
Gillespie, Francis P., Andrew M. Greeley, Michael Hout, and Teresa A. Sullivan. "Public Policy, Ethnic Codes, and Hispanic Vital Statistics." La Red/The Net 70 (July): 9-13.

Gillespie, Francis P., Teresa A. Sullivan, Michael Hout, and Andrew M. Greeley. "Surname Versus Self-Identification in the Analysis of Hispanic Data." Proceedings of the American Statistical Association 80 (August): 117-122.

1980
Hout, Michael. "Trade Dependence and Fertility in Hispanic America: 1900-1975." Pp. 159-188 in Studies of the Modern World System, edited by Albert Bergesen. New York: Academic Press.

1979
Hout, Michael. "Age Structure, Unwanted Fertility, and the Association Between Racial Composition and Family Planning Program Services." Social Forces 57 (June): 1387-1393.

1978
Hout, Michael. "Determinants of Marital Fertility in the United States, 1968- 1970: Inferences from a Dynamic Model." Demography 15 (May): 139-161.

1977
Hout, Michael. "Family Planning Program Activity and Patient Enrollments in the United States." Demography 14 (May): 213-222.

Hout, Michael. "Determinants of Patient Enrollments in Publicly Funded Family Planning Programs: 1969-1971." Pp. 33-54 in The Impact of Family Planning Programs on Fertility: The U.S. Experience, by Phillips Cutright and Frederick S. Jaffe. New York: Praeger.

1976
Cutright, Phillips, Michael Hout, and David R. Johnson. "Structural Determinants of Fertility in Latin America: 1800-1970" American Sociological Review 41 (June): 511-526.

Other Publications

2007
Hout, Michael. “Occupational Structure and the Socioeconomic Lifecycle: Otis Dudley Duncan’s Role in Stratification Research.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25: forthcoming.

2006
Hout, Michael. "Occupational Structure and the Socioeconomic Lifecycle: Otis Dudley Duncan's Role in Stratification Research." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24.

2004
Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. "A Hidden Swing Vote: Evangelicals." Op-ed article in N.Y. Times, 4 September.

Hout, Michael, "Bush's Jobs Deficit." Op-ed article in L.A. Times, 1 March.

Hout, Michael. “Houses Divided: Review of The Hidden Cost of Being African American by Thomas M. Shapiro.” Washington Post Book World, 15 February, p. 3.

Hout, Michael. “Review of The Pecking Order by Dalton Conley.” Contexts, Spring, p. 37.

2003
Hout, Michael, and Claude S. Fischer. “Oh, Be Some Other Name: Reply to Marwell and Demerath.” American Sociological Review 69: .

2000
Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. “Getting to the Truths That Matter: Reply to Stolzenberg.” American Sociological Review 66: 152-158..

1999
Hout, Michael. Review of The Black-White Test Score Gap by Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips. Contemporary Sociology 28:538-541.

1998
Review of Modernization and Postmodernization by Ronald Inglehart. Contemporary Sociology 27: 190-192.

1992
Hout, Michael. "Social Mobility." Pp. 840-841 in Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, edited by Joel Krieger. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1991
Sniderman, Paul M., Philip E. Tetlock, Donald Green, James Glaser, and Michael Hout. "Democratic Values and Mass Publics." Pp. 120-140 in Reasoning and Choice, edited by Paul M. Sniderman and David Brady. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1989
Review of Causal Inference from Quasi-Experimental Data, by Christopher Achen. American Journal of Sociology: 468-470.

1988
Review of Beyond the Color Line, by Reynolds Farley and Walter Allen. American Journal of Sociology: 695-697.

1987
Review of Gender and Work, by Patricia A. Roos. Contemporary Sociology:

1986
Sobel, Michael E., Michael Hout, and Otis Dudley Duncan. "Saving the Bath Water." Sociological Methods and Research 14 (Feb.): 271-285.

1985
Hout, Michael. "Reply to DeGraaf." American Journal of Sociology 90 (March): 1083-88.

1982
Review of Linear Panel Analysis, by Ronald Kessler and David Greenberg. Public Opinion Quarterly (Winter): 601-602.

1981
Review of Economics and the Family, edited by Stephen J. Bahr. Contemporary Sociology 10 (July): 539-540.

1976
Knoke, David, and Michael Hout. "Reply to Glenn." American Sociological Review 41 (October): 905-908.

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