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
Eriarvoisuuden periytyminen (2020)
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2))The heterogeneous effects of parental unemployment on siblings’ educational outcomes (2019)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Tying the Extended Family Knot: Grandparents’ Influence on Educational Achievement (2019)
European Sociological Review
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Tracking and sorting in the Finnish educational system (2019)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Behind every successful (wo)man is a successful parent-in-law? The association between resources of the partner’s parents and individual’s occupational attainment. (2019)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Universal Family Background Effects on Education Across and Within Societies (2019)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Destination as a process: Sibling similarity in early socioeconomic trajectories (2019)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))Sibling Similarities and the Importance of Parental Socioeconomic Position in Electoral Participation (2019)
Social Forces
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Tying the Extended Family Knot – Grandparents’ Influence on Educational Achievement (2018)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Resource Compensation from the Extended Family: Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles in Finland and the United States (2018)
European Sociological Review
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))