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Research Article

Social-economics, community, campus and family: a nationwide empirical investigation on the association between adverse childhood experiences and early career choice of youths and adolescents

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Pages 221-239 | Received 05 Mar 2019, Accepted 12 Apr 2019, Published online: 25 Apr 2019

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