Bowman Anderson, 19082002 Jean Bowman Anderson, a leading
University economist who studied the economic value of
education, who wrote one of the most widely used economics
textbooks, and who, as a woman, was a pioneer in an
overwhelmingly male discipline, died Monday, June 24, at her
home in Hyde Park. She was 93. Bowman is best known for her work
in applying human capital theory to the study of education. She
was one of the leaders in studying the impact of education on
occupation, earnings and unemployment, said Nobel laureate Gary
Becker, University Professor in Economics and Sociology. Jean
was an extraordinary person who might well have been one of the
Universitys Nobel Prize winners had she not chosen a somewhat
different career path, said Robert Myers, a former student of
Bowmans who is an economist and educational researcher in Mexico
City. Bowman, an empirical economist, had a remarkably varied
career. She wrote six books and more than 75 articles and
studied a wide-range of topics from entrepreneurs