This paper tests for the long-term and short-term relationships between fertility and relative cohort size for the … in studies of human fertility both in the short run and in the long-run for the United States. In addition, our results …

approximated by older families' income - on two measures of fertility: the proportion of women with an own child under one year of … increases in fertility among women with higher levels of education over the last decade has been a function of this emerging … positive effect of the female wage, among older more educated women. -- fertility, relative income ; relative cohort size …