Jason Houle

Selected Publications

• Rhodes, Alec, Davon Norris, Jason Houle, Rachel Dwyer, Sarah Bruch, and Lonnie Berger. 2026. "Unsecured Credit and the Social Safety Net in U.S. States." American Sociological Review, Forthcoming (Online First). 

• Chanda, Trisha, Jason Houle, Lisa Klein-Vogel, Rachel Dwyer, and Lonnie Berger. 2026. ""First Phone Call is Usually Family": Informal Borrowing Among Low-Income Debtors." Journal of Marriage and Family 88:213-226.

• Rhodes, Alec, Rachel Dwyer, and Jason Houle. 2025. "Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health: Evidence from a Cohort of U.S. Young Adults." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 66:36-56

• 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.