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Education and Opportunity: Some Economic Perspectives
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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
Education and Opportunity: Some Economic Perspectives
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Bowman, Mary Jean – Oxford Review of Education, 1975
Diverse definitions of equity in the provision of schooling are enumerated. An important distinction is made between viewing inequalities in earnings as measured in a given year and inequalities as seen on the scale of a lifetime. Accepting the latter view, the distributive effects of educational policies are discussed in terms of how they tend to…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Factors, Economic Status, Educational Economics