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Earnings, Relative Income, and Family Formation

Author(s) -

Maurice MacDonald,

Ronald R. Rindfuss

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061088

Subject(s) - earnings , social security , demographic economics , survey of income and program participation , economics , net income , population , family income , demography , labour economics , sociology , economic growth , finance , market economy

The probability of first marriage for men who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957 was analyzed with respect to their Social Security earnings records, Wisconsin income tax reports for parents, and other variables. The findings provide no support for Easterlin's hypothesis that marriage will occur earlier when young men judge their economic prospects favorably with respect to their parents' income. However, young men's earnings and time spent in schooling to increase them were found to be important influences on marriage timing. Additional schooling had little effect net of the time it absorbed.

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