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Bowman, Mary Jean – Oxford Review of Education, 1975
A few of the interactive effects between schooling and patterns of options in life before and after experience in schooling are singled out for comment in their relation to education in economic terms. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Employment Patterns

Bowman, Mary Jean – Oxford Review of Education, 1991
Discusses educational equality and inequality from an economist's perspective. Considers human capital theory and interpretation of life cycles in learning and earning. Addresses schooling and experience components of changes in the inequality of earned incomes, educational expansion, and inequalities in schooling. Explores the roles of skill…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Educational Development, Educational Economics, Educational Opportunities
Bowman, Mary Jean; And Others – 1970
This five-volume report presents detailed procedures and findings of research on Japanese high school seniors, their choice of courses, educational and career expectations and preferences, and the extent to which these attitudes conform to relationships in Japanese labor markets. This fourth volume relates the student's background to his…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education
Bowman, Mary Jean; And Others – 1970
This five-volume report presents detailed procedures and findings of research on Japanese high school seniors, their choice of courses, educational and career expectations and preferences, and the extent to which these attitudes conform to relationships in Japanese labor markets. In this second volume, Chapter 2 traces the development of the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Admission Criteria, Comparative Education, Developed Nations
Bowman, Mary Jean; And Others – 1970
This five-volume report presents detailed procedures and findings of research on Japanese high school seniors, their choice of courses, educational and career expectations and preferences, and the extent to which these attitudes conform to relationships in Japanese labor markets. In an analysis of the transition from secondary school to college or…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Comparative Education, Decision Making, Developed Nations
Bowman, Mary Jean; And Others – 1970
This report presents detailed procedures and findings of research on Japanese high school seniors, their choice of courses, educational and career expectations and preferences, and the extent to which these attitudes conform to relationships in Japanese labor markets. Data came from a 1966 survey of 7,000 male high school seniors enrolled in…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Educational Objectives