… Graduates from colleges and universities that were in the top 5% of the quality distribution
earned an average of 12% more per hour than graduates of average-quality universities. The …

The concept of similarity, or a sense of ‘sameness’ among things, is pivotal to theories in the
cognitive sciences and beyond. Similarity, however, is a difficult thing to measure. …

… the effect of paying workers by the hour with the effect of paying them … hour in order to
increase profits: switching to a piece rate gives the worker an incentive to do so; paying by the hour …

… In Raftery and Hout (1985) we found no significant association between participation and …
and either educational attainment or class (Raftery and Hout 1985), so we used all the data in …

… Belief in life after death actually increased (Greeley and Hout 1999a), especially among
people with no religious preference. Thus, the first condition for interpreting the increase in …

… In particular, the effect of origin status on destination status depends on the level of education
achieved (Hout 1984a). The occupational status of high school dropouts is very sensitive …

… At the Tokyo meeting in March 2003, Mike Hout presented the first draft of this paper, and
Wout Ultee and Tom DiPrete provided commentary. From that session and from later …

We focus on the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to be self-employed. Our
emphasis is on the role of family background, and in particular, on what we call the …

… In Century of Difference, Claude Fischer and Michael Hout … Fischer and Hout find that
differences among groups by … Using seventy years of survey data, Fischer and Hout show that …

… A raw data file is available on 3.5” or 5.25” floppy disc for a $10 charge to cover the cost of
the disc and postage from Hout, c/o UC Berkeley Survey Research Center, 2538 Channing …