1. The reference here is to Theodore W. Schultz's work over the past 25 years on peasant behavior in the Third World. A similar movement has been a foot for some time among economic historians trying to make sense out of the open field system and enclosure.
2. Lindert Peter H. and Williamson Jeffrey G. , “English Workers' Living Standards During the Industrial Revolution: A New Look,” Economic History Review (forthcoming).
3. See “Was the Industrial Revolution Worth It?” where a sample of 66 urban parishes from the 1834 Poor Law Report are subjected to the same econometric analysis as that applied to the 1905 towns reported in “ Urban Disamenities.”
4. “Urban Disamenities,” p. 81, reports the agricultural employment share changes and the urbanization rates used in this calculation.