Earnings, Relative Income, and Family Formation
Open Access
- 1 May 1981
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Demography
- Vol. 18 (2) , 123-136
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2061088
Abstract
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.Keywords
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