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Author: Loury, Glenn C.
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Loury, Glenn C. Loury, Linda Datcher |
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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." |
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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.
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Loury, Linda Datcher Loury, Glenn C. |
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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 Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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. |
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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. |