Jani
Erola
Professor, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
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
Kuksalla, kuupalla ja ämpärillä (2021)
Ydin
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Socioeconomic Background and Gene-Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course (2021)
European Sociological Review
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Compensatory and Multiplicative Advantages: Social Origin, School Performance, and Stratified Higher Education Enrolment in Finland (2021)
European Sociological Review
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Geographical mobility and children's non-completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany: Do parental resources matter? (2021)
British Educational Research Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Is professional regulation a highway to social immobility at top? Social closure and gendered outcomes in Italy (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Lifetrack Policy Brief / Finland (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Formal differentiation at upper secondary education in Finland: subject-level choices and stratified pathways to socio-economic status and unemployment (2021)
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The role of partnering and assortative mating for income inequality: The case of Finland, 1991–2014 (2021)
Acta Sociologica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
From Generation to Generation: The Role of Grandparents in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Non-)Voting (2020)
Political Research Quarterly
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))