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Working and Growing Up in America

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Working and Growing Up in America - Mortimer, Jeylan T
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Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school? Doesn't working distract them from schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a "precocious" transition to adulthood? This report from a longitudinal study of 1,000 students, followed from the beginning of high school through their mid-twenties, answers, resoundingly, no.

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Working and Growing Up in America 2005, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674016149

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