Early parental death and being not in education, employment, or training (NEET-status) in Norway: a population-wide study on the moderating role of parental education.

ABSTRACT: Childhood parental death has been linked to adverse young adult outcomes, potentially influenced by family background. This study quantifies the association between parental death during childhood and NEET-status (not in education, employment, or training) in young adulthood, focusing on the moderating role of parental education. Causes of death were leveraged to explore the extent of confounding in the relationship between parental death and NEET-status. The study utilized Norwegian registry data from birth cohorts 1977-87 (574 229 individuals). We identified individuals with and without the experience of parental death between ages 0-17 and tracked their NEET-status between ages 22-29. Poisson regression models estimated incidence risk ratios for NEET years based on parental death, paren

SUBMITTER: Delalic L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12529293 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature