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Marion County [Oregon] Youth Study, 1964-1979

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Principal Investigator(s): Polk, Kenneth

Summary: For this investigation of young men in Marion County, Oregon, subjects were interviewed in a 12-wave panel study beginning in their sophomore years of high school and continuing to age 30. The study sought to account for what happened as these individuals came of age. The research was concerned primarily with how success, trouble, and delinquency in the high school years exert an influence in later life careers. The first wave, conducted in the respondents' sophomore years of high school in... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08334.v3

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