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Jani
Erola
Professor, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
INVEST Research Flagship

Contact

+358 29 450 2157
+358 40 512 5286
Assistentinkatu 7
20500
Turku

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

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Sibling Similarity in Family Formation (2014)

Demography
Marcel Raab, Anette Eva Fasang, Aleksi Karhula, Jani Erola
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Labor and love – Wives' employment and divorce risk in its socio-political context (2013)

Wives' employment and divorce risk in its socio-political context
Social Politics
Cooke Lynn, Erola Jani, Evertsson Marie, Gähler Michael, Härkönen Juho, Hewitt Belinda, Jalovaara Marika, Kan Man-Yee, Lyngstad Torkild, Mencarini Letitzia, Mignot Jean-Pierre, Mortelmans Dimitri, Poortman Anne-Rigt, Schmitt Christian, Trappe Heike
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))