Entry:

O’Rourke, Kevin H; Sinnot, Richard, “Migration Flows: Political Economy of Migration and the Empirical Challenges,” Presented to Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, Paris, 2003.

Abstract:

Subjective family affluence does not consistently exert significant effects on family size expectations among men or to the long-term plans of women. However, upwardly mobile men tend to generate expected family sizes above the average while the downwardly mobile tend to expect fewer.