This study tests the effect of relative income - younger people's earning potential relative to their aspirations, as approximated by older families' income - on the proportions married, by sex, in the first fifteen years out of school. It finds that relative income has become a better measure...

This study tests the effect of relative income - younger people's earning potential relative to their aspirations, as approximated by older families' income - on two measures of fertility: the proportion of women with an own child under one year of age, and the proportion of women with at least...