We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work

Ashley R. Niccolai; Sarah Damaske; Jason Park

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.04

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 4 87-104

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.04

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 12, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Niccolai, Ashley R., Sarah Damaske, and Jason Park. 2022. “We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(4): 87–104. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.04. The authors thank the editors as well as the PRI family working group members for their helpful critiques. This project was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association for the Advancement of the Discipline, the Population Research Institute at Penn State, and by an infrastructure grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD041025). Direct correspondence to: Sarah Damaske, at sarahdamaske@psu.edu, The Pennsylvania State University, 614 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802, United States; Jason Park, at jpp5931@psu.edu, The Pennsylvania State University, Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Ashley R. Niccolai^a,
Sarah Damaske^b and
Jason Park^c

^aCompleted her doctoral candidacy exams at The Pennsylvania State University, United States
^bAssociate professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at The Pennsylvania State University, United States
^cGraduate student in sociology at The Pennsylvania State University, United States