Linda Datcher Loury

Linda Datcher Loury (January 19, 1952 – September 22, 2011) was an American economist who was a professor of economics at Tufts University. Her work on family and neighborhood economics put her among the founders of social economics.

Biography Loury was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1952. She attended the Friends School of Baltimore, Swarthmore College (where she majored in economics, with a concentration in Black Studies),

Research Loury conducted particularly influential research on the importance of social interactions and information networks in job markets.

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