Student and Parental Job Loss During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Effects on Household Economic Security.

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• Alternative Title:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2025, v. 68, no. 5: Student and Parental Job Loss During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Effects on Household Economic Security.
• Journal Article:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Personal Author:
  Silver, Sharon R. ; Shockey, Taylor M. ; Mpofu, Jonetta J.
• Description:
  While studies have examined effects of parental job loss early in the COVID-19 pandemic, few have assessed economic impacts of student job loss.
  
  The Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES) was a one-time online, nationally-representative survey administered by CDC in 2021 to understand high school students' experiences. We assessed associations between student, parent, and dyadic employment experiences and two measures of economic stress: housing instability and food insufficiency.
  
  Parental job loss was common and associated with both adverse economic outcomes. The adjusted prevalence rate (aPR) for housing instability was 2.79, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.73-4.51. A new finding is that student employment may also play a role in food sufficiency. Student job loss was significantly associated with both any food insufficiency and frequent food insufficiency (aPR = 1.61, 95% CI = 1.35-1.93 and aPR = 1.96, 95% CI = 1.43-2.70, respectively).
  
  Analysis of associations between employment status before and during the COVID-19 public health emergency and measures of household economic insecurity reveals social safety net gaps. Our finding that student employment may affect household food sufficiency highlights the need to better understand the role of student employment in household economic stress.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • COVID-19
  • Male
  • Female
  • Students
  • Adolescent
  • Unemployment
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Parents
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  More +
• Keywords:
  • food insufficiency
  • household economic security
  • housing instability
  • job loss
  • youth employment
• Source:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2025, v. 68, no. 5
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23713
• ISSN:
  0271-3586 ; 1097-0274
• Pubmed ID:
  40056145
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11985275
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; The authors received no specific funding for this work./
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  428-438 (18 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  68
• Issue:
  5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/261617/cdc_261617_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 125.56 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:afaf088a76fc9f8096a0af2c11e82e92815f04eb22c68c8ce472ac5b7b29c5df62414f4e9bb9542cb1b70837c422ac9847d5e5dcae3abf6b2b2ad74f621f2181