Linda Datcher Loury (January 19, 1952 – September 22, 2011) was an American economist who was a professor of economics at Tufts University.
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.
[1] She married her graduate school classmate Glenn Loury in 1983, and together they raised two sons.
[4] 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.