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| Title: | Bowman, Mary Jean. Papers |
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| Dates: | 1916-1998 |
| Size: | 21 linear feet (42 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Mary Jean Bowman (1908-2002) University of Chicago economist best known for her work on the economics of education. The Mary Jean Bowman papers contain published work by Bowman as well as manuscript drafts, notes, and research and teaching materials. The collection also includes reprints and manuscripts by other scholars, correspondence, and some personal files. |
Series V includes student evaluative material restricted until 2062 and personal financial material restricted for fifty years. The remainder of the collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Mary Jean Bowman. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Mary Jean Bowman was born in New York City in 1908 and raised in Newton Center, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. in economics from Vassar College in 1930, an M.A. in economics from Radcliffe College in 1932, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1938. During the 1930s Bowman did casework and research at the Massachusetts Women’s State Prison and began teaching at Iowa State College. In 1943 Bowman, along with her husband C. Arnold Anderson, Theodore Schultz. D. Gale Johnson and others left Iowa State during the “oleomargarine controversy.” (During World War II, Iowa State College faculty published a pamphlet recommending the use of oleomargarine during wartime. Under pressure from the state dairy industry, the college president urged the faculty to revise the pamphlet.) Bowman then worked as a price economist for the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to Chicago with her husband in 1949. Because C. Arnold Anderson was a faculty member in the Education department at the University of Chicago, Bowman was not awarded a faculty appointment in the Economics department until 1958 after the University relaxed nepotism rules. She did, however, teach as an Associate Professor in the Economics department prior to 1958. In 1969 she was awarded a joint appointment in the Economics and Education departments.
Bowman was best known for applying human capital theory to the study of education. She published six books and more than seventy five articles over the course of her career. With George Leland Bach, she co-authored the textbook Economic Analysis and Public Policy, which was the most widely used college economics textbook in the 1940s and 1950s. She published influential research on income distribution in the 1950s and produced a major study of the economics of poverty-stricken Eastern Kentucky in the 1960s. She also researched internationally, and published books on the Ivory Coast and Japan as well as numerous articles on economics and education in developing countries. She collaborated with her husband (who directed the University’s Comparative Education Center) to publish work on economics and education based on both domestic and international research.
Mary Jean Bowman died in Chicago in 2002 at age 93.
The Mary Jean Bowman papers include reprints of scholarly articles, manuscripts, notes, correspondence, and other documents. Series I contains work by Mary Jean Bowman, including manuscripts and reprints of articles and books, ranging from 1929 to 1998. Included are works authored by Bowman alone as well as those jointly authored with other scholars, including Bowman’s husband C. Arnold Anderson. Series II contains a variety of research and teaching materials. Included are subject files containing publications and notes on various topics, as well as files of statistical data, syllabi and notes for several courses. Series III contains copies of Bowman’s vitae, information from several conferences, correspondence, miscellaneous notes, and material for a volume about C. Arnold Anderson that Bowman compiled for Anderson’s memorial service in 1990. Series IV contains work by other scholars, including reprints from scholarly journals as well as manuscript drafts. Bowman organized some of these materials by author; the remainder have been grouped into manuscripts organized alphabetically by author (or lead author) name and reprints organized alphabetically by author (or lead author) name. Series V contains restricted material. Box 43 contains financial documents and is restricted for 50 years from date of record creation. Box 44 holds recommendation letters and is restricted for 80 years from date of record creation.
C. Arnold Anderson. Papers
Series I: Writing by Bowman |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | "Restriction in the Rubber and Coffee Industries," 1929-1930 |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1939-1958 |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1961-1963 |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Manuscripts, 1963-1964 |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1964-1966 |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1966-1967 |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1968-1970 |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1970-1971 |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1972-1974 |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1975-1976 |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1976-1977 |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1978 |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1979-1980 |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1980-1981 |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1984 |
| Box 4 Folder 1 | Manuscripts and reprints, 1985-1991 |
| Box 4 Folder 2 | Manuscripts, 1991-1992 |
| Box 4 Folder 3 | Manuscripts, 1996-1998 |
| Box 4 Folder 4 | Manuscript on Kentucky, undated |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | Manuscript on Kentucky, undated |
| Box 5 Folder 2 | Manuscript on Kentucky, undated |
| Box 5 Folder 3 | Manuscripts. undated |
| Box 5 Folder 4 | Manuscripts. undated |
| Box 5 Folder 5 | Manuscripts. undated |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | Manuscript on Ivory Coast, undated |
| Box 6 Folder 2 | Manuscript on Ivory Coast, undated |
| Box 6 Folder 3 | Manuscripts undated |
| Box 6 Folder 4 | Manuscripts by Mary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson, 1949-1961 |
| Box 7 Folder 1 | "Human Resource Development and Economic Development," Bowman and Anderson, 1961 |
| Box 7 Folder 2 | Manuscripts by Mary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson, 1961- 1965 |
| Box 7 Folder 3 | "Interdisciplinary Aspects of the Theory of Regional Development," Bowman and Anderson, 1965 |
| Box 7 Folder 4 | "Interdisciplinary Aspects of the Theory of Regional Development," Bowman and Anderson, 1965 |
| Box 7 Folder 5 | Manuscripts by Mary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson, 1966 |
| Box 8 Folder 1 | "Commentary on Aid Educational and Manpower Programs in Africa," Bowman and Anderson, 1966 |
| Box 8 Folder 2 | Manuscripts by Mary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson, 1966- 1968 |
| Box 8 Folder 3 | "Students, Teachers, and Opportunity Perceptions in Kenya," Volume I, Bowman and Anderson, 1969 |
| Box 8 Folder 4 | "Students, Teachers, and Opportunity Perceptions in Kenya," Volume II, Bowman and Anderson, 1969 |
| Box 9 Folder 1 | Manuscripts by Mary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson, 1969- 1976 |
| Box 9 Folder 2 | "Notes on a Trip through China," Bowman and Anderson, 1977 |
| Box 9 Folder 3 | "The Participation of Women in Education in the Third World," Bowman and Anderson, 1978 |
| Box 9 Folder 4 | "The Participation of Women in Education in the Third World," Bowman and Anderson, 1978 |
| Box 10 Folder 1 | "The Participation of Women in Education in the Third World," Bowman and Anderson, 1978 |
| Box 10 Folder 2 | "Memorandum on IFER," Bowman and Anderson, 1983 |
| Box 10 Folder 3 | "Mass Higher Education: Some Perspectives from Experience in the U.S., Bowman and Anderson, undated |
| Box 10 Folder 4 | Bowman and Anderson, miscellaneous manuscripts and notes |
| Box 10 Folder 5 | Bowman and Anderson, miscellaneous manuscripts and notes |
| Box 10 Folder 6 | Economic Analysis and Public Policy, Bowman and Bach, 1948 |
| Box 11 Folder 1 | "Communication and the Ecology of Mountain Development," Bowman and Plunkett, 1968 |
| Box 11 Folder 2 | "Communication and the Ecology of Mountain Development," Bowman and Plunkett, 1968 |
| Box 11 Folder 3 | "Communication and the Ecology of Mountain Development," Bowman and Plunkett, 1968 |
| Box 11 Folder 4 | "Communication and the Ecology of Mountain Development," Bowman and Plunkett, 1968 |
| Box 12 Folder 1 | "Communication and the Ecology of Mountain Development," Bowman and Plunkett, 1968 |
| Box 12 Folder 2 | Miscellaneous manuscripts, Bowman and Plunkett, undated |
| Box 12 Folder 3 | "A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Vocational Preparation in Japan," Bowman et. al., 1970 |
| Box 12 Folder 4 | "Frontiers of Economic Research and Development for the 1970s," Bowman et. al., 1971 |
| Box 13 Folder 1 | "Frontiers of Economic Research and Development for the 1970s," Bowman et. al., 1971 |
| Box 13 Folder 2 | Reports to the World Bank, Bowman et. al., 1978 |
| Box 13 Folder 3 | "Education and Income," Bowman et. al., 1980 |
| Box 13 Folder 4 | "Human Resources in Africa," Bowman et. al., 1982 |
| Box 13 Folder 5 | Miscellaneous manuscripts, Bowman et. al., 1983-1984, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 1 | "Emergence of a Modern Labor Force in the Ivory Coast," Bowman and Clignet, 1983 |
| Box 14 Folder 2 | "Fertility, Child Employment and Schooling in Mexico," Bowman and Goldblatt, 1983 |
| Box 14 Folder 3 | "Fertility, Child Employment and Schooling in Mexico," Bowman and Goldblatt, 1984 |
| Box 14 Folder 4 | Manuscripts on Mexico, Bowman and Goldblatt |
| Box 14 Folder 5 | Mexico notes and manuscripts, Bowman and Goldblatt |
| Box 14 Folder 6 | "The Political Economy of Public Support of Higher Education," Bowman et. al., 1986 |
| Box 15 Folder 1 | "The Political Economy of Public Support of Higher Education," Bowman et. al., 1986 |
| Box 15 Folder 2 | Manuscripts on Japan, Bowman et. al., undated |
| Box 15 Folder 3 | "Readings on Education and Economic Development," Bowman et. al., undated |
Series II: Research & Teaching |
| Box 15 Folder 4 | China, 1981-1991 |
| Box 15 Folder 5 | Altruism, 1986-1989 |
| Box 16 Folder 1 | Rational Expectations, 1977-1986 |
| Box 16 Folder 2 | Uncertainty, 1969-1985 |
| Box 16 Folder 3 | Income Distribution, 1964-1983 |
| Box 16 Folder 4 | Income Distribution and Public Policy, 1969-1983 |
| Box 16 Folder 5 | Education and Income, 1916-1971 |
| Box 17 Folder 1 | Education and Income, 1972-1981 |
| Box 17 Folder 2 | Education History, 1946-1979 |
| Box 17 Folder 3 | Economics of Education, 1986 |
| Box 17 Folder 4 | Child Development, 1996-1997 |
| Box 17 Folder 5 | Economic and Time, 1965-1972 |
| Box 17 Folder 6 | Africa, 1983 |
| Box 18 Folder 1 | Methodology, 1969-1986 |
| Box 18 Folder 2 | Non-formal Education, 1973-1976 |
| Box 18 Folder 3 | Poverty and Development, 1980-1988 |
| Box 18 Folder 4 | Growth, Inequality, and Income Distribution in Less Developed
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| Box 18 Folder 5 | Growth, Inequality, and Income Distribution in Less Developed
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| Box 18 Folder 6 | Rationality and Economics, undated |
| Box 18 Folder 7 | Education and Earnings, 1969-1987 |
| Box 19 Folder 1 | Earnings and Labor Markets, 1976-1980, undated |
| Box 19 Folder 2 | Migration, 1980-1987 |
| Box 19 Folder 3 | Economic Theory, 1978-1984 |
| Box 19 Folder 4 | World Bank Africa policy papers, 1984-1986 |
| Box 19 Folder 5 | Japan, reprints and manuscripts |
| Box 19 Folder 6 | Japan, reprints, 1962-1992 |
| Box 20 Folder 1 | Income Distribution and Mobility, 1973-1981 |
| Box 20 Folder 2 | Growth, Demographics and Income Distribution, 1978-1983 |
| Box 20 Folder 3 | Education and Employment, 1977-1987, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 4 | Income Distribution in Developing Countries, 1973, 1976 |
| Box 20 Folder 5 | Education and Inequality, 1973-1984, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 6 | Upsala VI, Notes |
| Box 21 Folder 1 | Dynamic growth theory, manuscripts and notes |
| Box 21 Folder 2 | Dynamic growth theory, manuscripts and notes |
| Box 21 Folder 3 | Yugoslavia, notes, 1973 |
| Box 21 Folder 4 | Brownfields, notes and research |
| Box 21 Folder 5 | Miscellaneous notes |
| Box 21 Folder 6 | NIE report, correspondence and notes |
| Box 22 Folder 1 | Miscellaneous notes |
| Box 22 Folder 2 | Option values, notes |
| Box 22 Folder 3 | Rural development, notes |
| Box 22 Folder 4 | Miscellaneous references |
| Box 22 Folder 5 | Japan, notes |
| Box 22 Folder 6 | Japan, notes |
| Box 22 Folder 7 | Miscellaneous tables |
| Box 22 Folder 8 | Charts on Women |
| Box 22 Folder 9 | Zero order correlation matrix of 1970 data |
| Box 23 Folder 1 | Data sets, 1968-1970, 1984, 1986 |
| Box 23 Folder 2 | Charts, 1982 |
| Box 23 Folder 3 | Data sets, 1984-1987 |
| Box 23 Folder 4 | Data sets, 1987 |
| Box 23 Folder 5 | Data sets, 1986-1987 |
| Box 23 Folder 6 | Data sets, 1985-1986 |
| Box 24 Folder 1 | Data sets, 1986 |
| Box 24 Folder 2 | Data sets, 1986-1978 |
| Box 24 Folder 3 | State equations data sets, 1983-1986 |
| Box 24 Folder 4 | State univariate tables |
| Box 24 Folder 5 | Data sets, 1986 |
| Box 24 Folder 6 | State univariates |
| Box 24 Folder 7 | Data sets, 1985 |
| Box 24 Folder 8 | Correlations, 1960 |
| Box 25 Folder 1 | Data sets, 1983, 1985 |
| Box 25 Folder 2 | Data sets, 1985 |
| Box 25 Folder 3 | Data sets. 1985 |
| Box 25 Folder 4 | Health data |
| Box 25 Folder 5 | Data sets, 1985 |
| Box 25 Folder 6 | Data sets, 1983-1985 |
| Box 26 Folder 1 | Data sets, 1985 |
| Box 26 Folder 2 | Data, 1970 |
| Box 26 Folder 3 | Course materials, Education 322 |
| Box 26 Folder 4 | Course materials, Education 326 |
| Box 26 Folder 5 | Course materials, Human Resources, Berkeley, 1948-1949 |
| Box 26 Folder 6 | Miscellaneous course notes |
Series III: Personal Files, Correspondence, and Miscellaneous |
| Box 27 Folder 1 | Bowman vitae, publications, employment history |
| Box 27 Folder 2 | Bowman, awards, 1982, 1995 |
| Box 27 Folder 3 | Correspondence, 1938-1988 |
| Box 27 Folder 4 | Correspondence, 1990-1999 |
| Box 27 Folder 5 | Correspondence, undated |
| Box 27 Folder 6 | Address lists |
| Box 28 Folder 1 | Letters for C. Arnold Anderson memorial service, 1990 |
| Box 28 Folder 2 | "Bits of the Lives of Students and Close Associates," C. Arnold
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| Box 28 Folder 3 | University of Chicago Comparative Education Center |
| Box 28 Folder 4 | National Institute of Education Conference, 1971 |
| Box 28 Folder 5 | Symposium on Expectations and Demands for Places in Higher Education Institutions, 1984 |
| Box 29 Folder 1 | Miscellaneous conferences |
| Box 29 Folder 2 | Compton Lecture Series, 1996 |
| Box 29 Folder 3 | Press coverage of University of Chicago economists |
| Box 29 Folder 4 | Correspondence, information, and statements about T.W. Schultz |
| Box 29 Folder 5 | Miscellaneous vitae |
| Box 29 Folder 6 | Miscellaneous manuscripts |
| Box 29 Folder 7 | Miscellaneous |
| Box 30 Folder 1 | Miscellaneous newsletters |
Series IV: Writing by Others |
| Box 30 Folder 2 | Gary Becker, reprints and manuscripts,1966-1977 |
| Box 30 Folder 3 | Gary Becker, reprints and manuscripts,1981-1993 |
| Box 30 Folder 4 | Gary Becker, vitae and reviews |
| Box 30 Folder 5 | Yoram Ben-Porath, reprints and manuscripts, 1980 |
| Box 30 Folder 6 | Mark Blaug, reprints, 1975-1984 |
| Box 31 Folder 1 | Mary Brinton, manuscript, 1990 |
| Box 31 Folder 2 | Martin Carnoy, reprints, 1970, 1982 |
| Box 31 Folder 3 | Claudio de Moura Castro, manuscripts, 1989, undated |
| Box 31 Folder 4 | D.P. Chaudri, manuscripts, 1969, 1977 |
| Box 31 Folder 5 | Carmel Chiswick, manuscript, 1975 |
| Box 31 Folder 6 | David Cooper, reprints, 1980 |
| Box 31 Folder 7 | G.M. Criel, manuscript, 1981 |
| Box 31 Folder 8 | Ronald Dore, reprints and manuscripts, 1962-1978 |
| Box 31 Folder 9 | Ronald Dore, manuscripts on Japan, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 1 | Gary S. Fields, reprints and mansucripts, 1976-1980 |
| Box 32 Folder 2 | Penelope Flores, vitae and manusripts, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 3 | Bruce Harker, mansucrips, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 4 | Stephen Heyneman, reprints, 1978-1980 |
| Box 32 Folder 5 | Stephen Heyneman, reprints and manuscripts, 1980-1984 |
| Box 33 Folder 1 | Stephen Heyneman, reprints and manuscripts, 1985-1995 |
| Box 33 Folder 2 | Torsten Husén, reprints, 1975, 1977 |
| Box 33 Folder 3 | William Hyde, reprints and manuscripts, 1975-1979 |
| Box 33 Folder 4 | Harry G. Johnson, reprints and manuscripts, 1971, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 5 | Dale Jorgenson, manuscripts, 1977, 1987 |
| Box 33 Folder 6 | Simon Kuznets, reprints and manuscripts, 1972-1977 |
| Box 33 Folder 7 | Henry Levin, reprints, undated |
| Box 34 Folder 1 | Assar Lindbeck, manuscripts, 1986-1987 |
| Box 34 Folder 2 | Robert Lucas, vitae, reprints, press coverage, 1977-1995 |
| Box 34 Folder 3 | Donald McCloskey, vitae, reprints, 1972, 1984, undated |
| Box 34 Folder 4 | Jacob Mincer, reprints and manuscripts, 1958-1989 |
| Box 34 Folder 5 | Peter Mook, reprints and manuscripts, 1974-1978 |
| Box 34 Folder 6 | Jerry Olson, Chicago Teachers' Center manuscript and brochure, 1990 |
| Box 34 Folder 7 | Josef Orczyk, manuscripts, 1971, undated |
| Box 34 Folder 8 | Michel Petty, reprints, undated |
| Box 34 Folder 9 | Dudley Plunkett, manuscripts, 1965, 1967 |
| Box 34 Folder 10 | Suet-ling Pong and David Post, manuscripts, 1988, undated |
| Box 34 Folder 11 | David Post, reprints, manuscripts, correspondence, 1985-1988, undated |
| Box 35 Folder 1 | George Psacharopoulos, reprints and manuscripts, 1970-1980 |
| Box 35 Folder 2 | George Psacharopoulos, reprints and manuscripts, 1981-1984 |
| Box 35 Folder 3 | George Psacharopoulos, reprints and manuscripts, 1985-1992 |
| Box 35 Folder 4 | George Psacharopoulos, reprints and manuscripts, undated |
| Box 35 Folder 5 | Jeffrey Puryear, reprints and manuscripts, 1979-1996 |
| Box 35 Folder 6 | Sherwin Rosen, vitae, reprints, 1972-1988 |
| Box 36 Folder 1 | Edward Rannells, manuscripts, 1958-1962, undated |
| Box 36 Folder 2 | Jorge Sanguinetty, manuscript, 1980 |
| Box 36 Folder 3 | T. Paul Schultz, reprints and manuscripts, 1980, 1982 |
| Box 36 Folder 4 | John Smyth, reprints and manuscripts, 1969-1984 |
| Box 36 Folder 5 | Daniel Socolow, manuscript, 1972 |
| Box 36 Folder 6 | George Stigler, reprint and manuscripts, undated |
| Box 36 Folder 7 | Vincent Tinto, reprints, 1973, 1981 |
| Box 36 Folder 8 | Jan Tinbergen, manuscripts and reprints, 1972-1973, undated |
| Box 37 Folder 1 | Finis Welch, reprints and manuscripts, 1972-1989 |
| Box 37 Folder 2 | Robert Willis, reprints, 1979, 1986 |
| Box 37 Folder 3 | Douglas Windham, reprints and manuscripts, 1976, 1980 |
| Box 37 Folder 4 | Adrian Ziderman, manuscripts, 1989-1990 |
| Box 37 Folder 5 | Miscellaneous reprints by students, 1961-1987 |
| Box 37 Folder 6 | Miscellaneous articles by Univeristy of Chicago faculty, 1978-1991 |
| Box 38 Folder 1 | Ashenfalter - Burt |
| Box 38 Folder 2 | Cameron - Choi |
| Box 38 Folder 3 | Epstein - Jensen |
| Box 38 Folder 4 | Jin Lian - King |
| Box 39 Folder 1 | Knight - Mingat |
| Box 39 Folder 2 | Mingat - Peterson |
| Box 39 Folder 3 | Ram - Zimmerman |
| Box 40 Folder 1 | Abel - Bowles |
| Box 40 Folder 2 | Buchanan - Davidson |
| Box 40 Folder 3 | Davies - Foster |
| Box 41 Folder 1 | Foster - Johnson |
| Box 41 Folder 2 | Karen - Lundberg |
| Box 41 Folder 3 | Machan - Michael |
| Box 41 Folder 4 | Mishkin - Owen |
| Box 42 Folder 1 | Peshkin - Sen |
| Box 42 Folder 2 | Shea - Woodhall, unidentified |
| Box 42 Folder 3 | World Bank staff, "International Technology Transfer" |
Series V: Restricted |
| Box 43 Folder 1 | Financial papers, 1996-1997 |
| Box 44 Folder 1 | Letters of recommendation, 1984 |