
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
Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement (2016)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Grandparental Presence, Parental Involvement and Educational Outcomes among Adolescents in 20 Countries (2016)
(O2 Muu)Valitaan lehdet JUFO-tasoille äänestämällä! (2016)
Acatiimi
(D1 Artikkeli ammattilehdessä)
Parental Resources, Sibship Size, and Educational Performance in 20 Countries: Evidence for the Compensation Model (2016)
Cross-Cultural Research
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Do Nonresident Fathers Compensate the Lack of Family Resources? (2016)
(O2 Muu)Suomen lisääntynyt sosiaalinen liikkuvuus harvinaista muualla Euroopassa (2015)
Talous & yhteiskunta
(B1 Kirjoitus tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Swinging support? Economic cycles and changes in the public attitudes towards welfare recipients in Finland 1995 – 2010 (2015)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys)Editorial note from the incoming editorship (2015)
Acta Sociologica
(B1 Kirjoitus tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
No Crisis but Methodological Separatism: A Comparative Study of Finnish and Danish Publication Trends between 1990 and 2009 (2015)
Sociology
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
The Sins of the Fathers in Troubled Times – The Long-Term Effect of Parental Unemployment during Recession on Children’s Socioeconomic Achievement (2015)
The Long-Term Effect of Parental Unemployment during Recession on Children’s Socioeconomic Achievement
(O2 Muu)