Union Status, Educational Attainment, and Body Mass Index Among Emerging Adults

Rhiannon A Kroeger1

  • 1Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

Emerging Adulthood (Print)
|February 13, 2018
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