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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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