
Jani
Erola
Professor, INVEST flagship
INVEST Research Flagship
Areas of expertise
socioeconomic inheritance
social moblity
social class
education
income
inequality
life course
Biography
Jani Erola is Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku and the director of INVEST Research Flagship Center (invest.utu.fi). His research interests include intergenerational social mobility and socioeconomic inheritance, social class and stratification, family formation, sociological research methods, welfare state attitudes and social scientific publication patterns. His publications on these topics have appeared in major social scientific journals such as Social Science Research, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Sociology, Acta Sociologica, Journal European Social Policy and Demography. He is a former PI of ERC Consolidator Grant Project "Intergenerational Cumulative Disadvantage and Resource Compensation (INDIRECT)", the editor of Acta Sociologica and the president of the Westermarck Society, the Finnish sociological association. According to Prof. Erola, he originally started looking at intergenerational social mobility as an interesting side project within his PhD, but “questions of inheritance took over and became what really motivated me as a researcher".
Teaching
- Introductory course lectures on sociology
- Master thesis seminar
- Current topics in social inequality
Publications
The pattern of educational inequality—The contribution of family background on levels of education over time and across four countries (2020)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys)Koronakriisin vaikutukset lasten ja nuorten oppimiseen, koulutukseen ja hyvinvointiin pitkällä aikavälillä (2020)
(E1 Yleistajuinen artikkeli, sanomalehtiartikkeli)Vanhempien huono-osaisuuden yhteys lasten koulupudokkuuteen (2020)
(A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Left Behind? The impact of geographical mobility on children´s educational attainment in Finland and Germany (2020)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys)Socioeconomic background and gene-environment interplay in social stratification across the early life course (2020)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys)The role of partnering and assortative mating by social origin for income inequality: The case of Finland, 1991–2014 (2020)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys)From Generation to Generation: The Role of Grandparents in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Non-)Voting (2020)
Political Research Quarterly
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Child's age at parental death and university education (2020)
European Societies
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)