An Interview with Michael Hout

Michael Hout, Natalie Cohen Professor of Sociology and Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, and contributing author of the 2012 Annual Review of Sociology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his article Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States. The research he cites shows that despite all the criticism about its cost and the skills it teaches, higher education still makes a significant difference in people's lives, for the better, and it also benefits society as a whole.