Jani Erola
jani.erola@utu.fi +358 29 450 2157 +358 40 512 5286 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku Office: 497 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8008-7032 |
Areas of expertise
socioeconomic inheritance, social moblity, social class, education, income, inequality, life course
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".
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
- Introductory course lectures on sociology
- Master thesis seminar
- Current topics in social inequality
Publications 
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- 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
(A1 Journal article – refereed) - Geographical mobility and children's non-completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany: Do parental resources matter? (2021)
- British Educational Research Journal
(A1 Journal article – refereed) - Sibling Similarity in Education Across and Within Societies (2021)
- Demography
(A1 Journal article – refereed) - The role of partnering and assortative mating for income inequality: The case of Finland, 1991–2014 (2021)
- Acta Sociologica
(A1 Journal article – refereed) - Child's age at parental death and university education (2020)
- European Societies
(A1 Journal article – refereed) - Compensatory and Multiplicative Advantages: Social Origin, School Performance, and Stratified Higher Education Enrolment in Finland (2020)
- European Sociological Review
(A1 Journal article – refereed) - Eriarvoisuuden periytyminen (2020) Eriarvoisuuden tila Suomessa 2020 Eskelinen Niko, Jani Erola, Aleksi Karhula, Lucia Ruggera, Outi Sirniö
(B2 Book chapter) - From Generation to Generation: The Role of Grandparents in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Non-)Voting (2020)
- Political Research Quarterly
(A1 Journal article – refereed) - Kahden korkeakoulun malli eriyttää oppilaita perhetaustan perusteella (2020)
- INVEST blog
(E1 Popularised article, newspaper article) - Koronakriisin vaikutukset lasten ja nuorten oppimiseen, koulutukseen ja hyvinvointiin pitkällä aikavälillä (2020)
- INVEST Policy brief (Politiikkasuositukset)
(E1 Popularised article, newspaper article) - Koulutuksen yhteys sosiaaliseen liikkuvuuteen vahvistuu (2020)
- Talous & yhteiskunta
(B1 Journal article) - Lasten päivähoitovalintojen yhteys PISA-menestykseen: Ristiriitaisia tuloksia ja tulkintoja (2020)
- Yhteiskuntapolitiikka
(B1 Journal article) - Left Behind? The impact of geographical mobility on children´s educational attainment in Finland and Germany (2020) Patricia McMullin, Aleksi Karhula, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jani Erola
(D4 Published development or research report or study) - Skills, parental background, and changes in educational institutions (2020) Jani Erola, Valeria Breuker
(D4 Published development or research report or study) - Socioeconomic background and gene-environment interplay in social stratification across the early life course (2020) Jani Erola, Hannu Lehti, Tina Baier, Aleksi Karhula
(D4 Published development or research report or study) - The pattern of educational inequality—The contribution of family background on levels of education over time and across four countries (2020) Outi Sirniö, Hannu Lehti, Michael Grätz, Kieron Barcley, Jani Erola
(D4 Published development or research report or study) - The role of partnering and assortative mating by social origin for income inequality: The case of Finland, 1991–2014 (2020) Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
(D4 Published development or research report or study) - Vanhempien huono-osaisuuden yhteys lasten koulupudokkuuteen (2020) Lapsiperheiden köyhyys & huono-osaisuus Johanna Kallio, Helena Hautala, Jani Erola
(A3 Book chapter) - 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
(A1 Journal article – refereed) - Destination as a process: Sibling similarity in early socioeconomic trajectories (2019) Karhula A, Erola J, Raab M, Fasang A
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
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