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Author: Loury, Linda Datcher
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1. Loury, Glenn C.
Loury, Linda Datcher
Not by Bread Alone: The Role of the African-American Church In Inner-City Development
The Brookings Review 15,1 (Winter 1997): 10-13.
Also: http://www.brook.edu/press/review/gloury_br_winter_1997.htm
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Brookings Institution
Keyword(s): Economic Well-Being; Economics of Minorities; Educational Attainment; Inner-City; Racial Studies; Religion; Religious Influences; Welfare

Loury and Datcher-Loury's article reflects on ways in which church and the church community can positively affect the black urban poor. National Longitudinal Survey data is incorporated as follows: "We are well aware of the knotty problem of inferring causality in this area of research. While it is certainly plausible that religiosity favorably affects work, education, and other behaviors, these behaviors may themselves affect religious commitment and participation. Moreover, measures of religiosity may also be correlated with unobserved nonreligious traits that affect, say, years of schooling. One of us has tried to address these problems in a study of the effect of religious participation on schooling using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. That study looked at how church attendance during the senior year of high school affected the total years of schooling ultimately completed, relying on differences in the effects of church attendance before, during, and after the senior year to control for any spurious correlations. We found that church attendance during the senior year of high school adds about 0.2 years to total schooling for white women and for blacks, but had no significant effect for white men. We construe this as modest evidence that church attendance may alter behavior in a constructive way."
Bibliography Citation
Loury, Glenn C. and Linda Datcher Loury. "Not by Bread Alone: The Role of the African-American Church In Inner-City Development." The Brookings Review 15,1 (Winter 1997): 10-13.
2. Loury, Linda Datcher
All in the Extended Family: Effects of Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles on Educational Attainment
American Economic Review 96,2 (May 2006): pp. 275-278.
Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/000282806777212099
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Educational Attainment; Family Influences; Grandparents; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

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This paper shows that older extended family members--aunts, uncles, and grandparents--independently affect the schooling of their younger relatives. This finding can shed light in many areas. For example, gender differences in relationships with extended family members may partly explain schooling differences among siblings. Extended family members may also account for intergenerational influences not directly tied to observed nuclear family characteristics. In the policy arena, countervailing extended family influences may lower achievement gains from programs that move adolescents to more advantageous neighborhoods and schools. On the other hand, if extended family members can improve adolescent choices, nonparent adult mentors in programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters may also provide effective guidance for teens.
Bibliography Citation
Loury, Linda Datcher. "All in the Extended Family: Effects of Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles on Educational Attainment." American Economic Review 96,2 (May 2006): pp. 275-278.
3. Loury, Linda Datcher
All in the Extended Family: Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles and Educational Attainment
Working Paper 2006, Department of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2006.
Also: http://ase.tufts.edu/econ/papers/200610.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Department of Economics, Tufts University
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Family Influences; Grandparents; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

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Previous work on social interactions has analyzed the effects of nuclear family, peer, school, and neighborhood characteristics. This paper complements this research by first showing that individuals from similar nuclear families often differ in extended family member characteristics. It then demonstrates that older extended family members - aunts, uncles, and grandparents – independently affect college attendance probabilities and test score results of their younger relatives. In some cases, the sizes of the estimated effects are large enough to substantially narrow the achievement gap between disadvantaged and other youth....This paper shows that older extended family members - aunts, uncles, and grandparents – independently affect the schooling of their younger relatives. This means that previous research focusing only on nuclear family, peer, school, and neighborhood characteristics may not include some important social interactions that alter adolescent behavior. For example, youths from low socioeconomic status families may stay in school longer and have higher test scores if they have more educated extended family members. On the other hand, countervailing extended family influences may lower gains for disadvantaged adolescents in high income neighborhoods and schools.
Bibliography Citation
Loury, Linda Datcher. "All in the Extended Family: Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles and Educational Attainment." Working Paper 2006, Department of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2006.
4. Loury, Linda Datcher
Does Church Attendance Really Increase Schooling?
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43,1 (March 2004): 119-127.
Also: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2004.00221.x?cookieSet=1
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Family Influences; Mothers, Education; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Religion; Religious Influences; Schooling

This article shows that religiosity during adolescence has a significant effect on total number of years of schooling attained. It differs from previous research by focusing on church attendance rather than on denomination and by controlling more completely for the effects of omitted-variables bias. Any estimated correlation between church attendance and schooling without such controls may reflect unmeasured family, community, and individual characteristics. The size of the effect for individuals who attended church 52 weeks per year compared to individuals who do not attend at all is equivalent to over three years of parents' schooling. This finding implies that changes in church attendance, either due to exogenous changes in attitudes or as an indirect effect of government or other institutional activity, may have large spill-over effects on socioeconomic variables.
Bibliography Citation
Loury, Linda Datcher. "Does Church Attendance Really Increase Schooling? ." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43,1 (March 2004): 119-127.
5. Loury, Linda Datcher
Siblings and Gender Differences in African-American College Attendance
Economics of Education Review 23,3 (2004): 213-219.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02727757/23/3
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Black Studies; College Education; College Enrollment; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Siblings

Differences in college enrollment growth rates for African-American men and women have resulted in a large gender gap in college attendance. This paper shows that, controlling for spurious correlation with unobserved variables, having more college-educated older siblings raises rather than lowers the likelihood of college attendance for African-Americans. Furthermore, over one-third of the gender gap is due to the greater influence of older college-educated brothers and sisters on women than on men. This finding has implications for explanations of sibling effects on schooling by gender, for policies to reduce race and gender differences in schooling, and for calculating benefits of programs that increase college enrollments.

2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Bibliography Citation
Loury, Linda Datcher. "Siblings and Gender Differences in African-American College Attendance ." Economics of Education Review 23,3 (2004): 213-219.
6. Loury, Linda Datcher
Some Contacts Are More Equal than Others: Informal Networks, Job Tenure, and Wages
Journal of Labor Economics 24,2 (April 2006): 299-318.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/499974
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Employment; Job Search; Job Tenure; Wage Growth

The explanation typically given for longer tenure among workers who use informal contacts to find jobs is that relatives and friends reduce uncertainty about the quality of the match between worker and employer. An alternative explanation is that workers rely on informal information sources as a last resort. Such workers remain at their current jobs mainly because they have few alternative choices rather than because of better match quality. This article shows that the two different explanations are simultaneously valid for different types of contacts and can account for differences in the wage effects of job contacts.
Bibliography Citation
Loury, Linda Datcher. "Some Contacts Are More Equal than Others: Informal Networks, Job Tenure, and Wages." Journal of Labor Economics 24,2 (April 2006): 299-318.
7. Loury, Linda Datcher
Loury, Glenn C.
Effects of Attitudes and Aspirations on the Labor Supply of Young Black Men
Presented: Cambridge, MA, Conference on Inner City Black Youth Unemployment, August 1983
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: Author
Keyword(s): Employment, Youth; Inner-City; Job Aspirations; Occupational Aspirations; Racial Differences; Work Attitudes

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This study uses not only the Young Men's cohort of the NLS, but also a sample from the 1979 NBER survey of inner city black youth. The NLS sample of black men 17-19 differs considerably from the NBER 20-24 year olds because the latter is restricted to individuals living in low-income, inner city areas of three large northern or midwestern SMSAs whereas the former is a nationally representative sample of all individuals of the relevant age group living in any SMSA. Furthermore, labor supply for the NLS group was measured as of 1972 compared to 1979 for the NBER sample. Nonetheless, the magnitude of the aspiration effects are similar. The results obtained indicate that attitudes and occupational aspirations have a large, significant effect on the hours worked by young men. These effects seem to be stronger for black men than for white men. Evidence from the NLS further suggests that occupational aspirations are not merely a reflection of past labor market contact but may instead be causal factors altering labor supply.
Bibliography Citation
Loury, Linda Datcher and Glenn C. Loury. "Effects of Attitudes and Aspirations on the Labor Supply of Young Black Men." Presented: Cambridge, MA, Conference on Inner City Black Youth Unemployment, August 1983.