Linda Datcher Loury

Linda Datcher Loury (1952-Sept 23, 2011) was a Professor of Economics at Tufts University. Her work on family and neighborhood economics put her among the founders of Social Economics.[1]

Linda Datcher Loury
Born1952
Baltimore, MD
DiedSept 22, 2011
Brookline, MA
NationalityUSA
CitizenshipUSA
Alma materSwarthmore College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forSocial Economics
Spouse(s)Glenn Loury
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsTufts University
University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

Biography

Loury was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1952. She attended the Friends School of Baltimore,[2] Swarthmore College (where she majored in economics, with a concentration in Black Studies),[1] and earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. She held research and teaching positions at the University of Michigan and the Kennedy School of Government before joining the faculty of Tufts University in 1984, where she worked for the remainder of her life.[1] She married her graduate school classmate Glenn Loury in 1983, and together they raised two sons.[2] While raising her children, she founded a network of African-American families in the Boston area, volunteered in her children's school, and was an active member of her church's efforts to assist disadvantaged children.[3][2]

Research

Loury conducted particularly influential research on the importance of social interactions and information networks in job markets.[4] For example, she studied the impact of grandparents educational achievements on their grandchildren, the relationship between job tenure and hiring networks, and the impact of mothers' labor market participation on children's academic achievements.[3]

Selected works
  • Ioannides, Yannis M., and Linda Datcher Loury. "Job information networks, neighborhood effects, and inequality." Journal of economic literature 42, no. 4 (2004): 1056-1093.
  • Loury, Linda Datcher, and David Garman. "College selectivity and earnings." Journal of labor Economics 13, no. 2 (1995): 289-308.
  • Loury, Linda Datcher. "Some contacts are more equal than others: Informal networks, job tenure, and wages." Journal of Labor Economics 24, no. 2 (2006): 299-318.
  • Loury, Linda Datcher. "The gender earnings gap among college-educated workers." ILR Review 50, no. 4 (1997): 580-593.
  • Datcher-Loury, Linda. "Effects of mother's home time on children's schooling." The review of economics and statistics (1988): 367-373.
  • Wallace, Phyllis Ann, Linda Datcher-Loury, and Julianne Malveaux. Black women in the labor force. MIT Press (MA), 1980.

References
  1. Shirk, Martha. "Linda Datcher (Deceased), Swarthmore, PA Pennsylvania". www.swarthmorecollege73.com. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  2. "Obituary: Linda Datcher Loury". The Bay State Banner. 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  3. Marquard, Bryan (2011-10-02). "Linda Datcher Loury, 59, pioneer in social economics". Boston.com. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  4. "In Memory of Linda Loury". The Tufts Daily. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2020-09-15.


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