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
The Middle Class in Finland (2018)
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2))Varhaisen päivähoidon pitkän aikavälin vaikutukset : virheitä ja vahvistuneita havaintoja (2018)
Yhteiskuntapolitiikka
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Tying the Extended Family Knot – Grandparents’ Influence on Educational Achievement (2018)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Home sweet home? Long-term educational outcomes of childcare arrangements in Finland (2017)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Sosiaalisen huono-osaisuuden ylisukupolvisuus Suomessa (2017)
Yhteiskuntapolitiikka
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Swinging support? Economic cycles and changes in the public attitudes towards welfare recipients in Finland 1995-2010 (2017)
European Societies
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Compensation and other forms of accumulation in intergenerational social inequality (2017)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Less Advantaged More Averse? Heterogeneous Effects of Parental Unemployment on Siblings’ Educational Achievement (2017)
(Muu (O2))Does death really make us equal? Educational attainment and resource compensation after paternal death in Finland (2017)
Social Science Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Do nonresident fathers compensate for a lack of household resources? The associations between paternal involvement and children's cognitive and educational assessments in the UK (2017)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))