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Coming of Age in Appalachia, Emerging or Expedited Adulthood?

Emily E. N. Miller, Kathryn Edin
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2022, 8 (4) 50-67; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.02
Emily E. N. Miller
aGraduate student of population studies and social policy at Princeton University, United States
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bWilliam Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, United States
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