Jani Erola
jani.erola@utu.fi +358 29 450 2157 +358 40 512 5286 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku : 497 |
socioeconomic inheritance, social moblity, social class, education, income, inequality, life course
INVEST Research Flagship
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".
- Introductory course lectures on sociology
- Master thesis seminar
- Current topics in social inequality
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- Beyond the Nordic Welfare State: Extending Social Investments with Interventions (2026) Erola, Jani; Moisio, Pasi; Peltoniemi, Johanna
- Childhood Geographical Mobility, Local Opportunity Structures, and the Pursuit of Higher Education (2025) Karonen, Esa; McMullin, Patricia; Kilpi-Jakonen, Elina; Erola, Jani
- Childhood Geographical Mobility's Role in Shaping Educational and Occupational Attainment by Age 30 in Finland (2025) McMullin, Patricia; Karhula, Aleksi; Erola, Jani
- Economic Circumstances of Children Living in Higher and Lower-Educated Families and the Contribution of Household Structure: A Cross-Country Comparison with a Child’s Perspective (2025)
- Studies of Transition States and Societies
- Inequalities in early childhood and families (2025) Erola, Jani; Heiskala, Laura; Karonen, Esa; Kilpi-Jakonen, Elina
- Intergenerational social mobility of cohorts born from 1951 to 1980 in Finland (2025)
- Acta Sociologica
- Parental involvement in elementary schools and children's academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland (2025)
- Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
- Synthesis on the inequalities across the life course and policy-making levels, and perceptions of inequality (2025) Erola , Jani
- Tutkimus muuttaa yhteiskuntaa, mutta vaikutukset näkyvät usein hitaasti (2025) Ikonen, Milla; Erola, Jani
- White Paper on Social Inequalities in Europe: From Early Childhood to Retirement (2025) Erola, Jani; Vono de Vilhena, Daniela; Kilpi-Jakonen, Elina
- Age of entry into early childhood education and care, literacy and reduction of educational inequality in Nordic countries (2024)
- European Societies
- Change in human capital of the immediate family (2024) Heiskala, Laura; Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, Sanna; Karonen, Esa; Erola, Jani
- Childbearing under different family policy schemes (2024)
- Journal of family research
- Economic circumstances of children living in higher and lower educated families and the contribution of household structure: Comparison of 11 European countries (2024) Heiskala, Laura; Tuominen, Minna; Erola, Jani; Kilpi Jakonen, Elina
- Education, family complexity and heterogeneous causal effects of parental separation (2024) Helske Satu; Erola Jani; Helske Jouni
- Huipputuloisuuden alueellinen periytyminen (2024) Eriarvoisuuden tila Suomessa 2024 Karonen, Esa; Erola, Jani
- Introduction: The economic and sociological approaches to studying the intergenerational transmission of inequality : Similarities, differences and convergence (2024) Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality Blanden Jo, Erola Jani, Kilpi-Jakonen Elina, Macmillan Lindsey
- Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality (2024) Kilpi-Jakonen Elina, Blanden Jo, Erola Jani, Macmillan Linsey
- State-of-the-art review of spillovers over the life course (2024) Figueroa González, Mijail; Erola, Jani
- Educational attainment and family composition across generations, origin and place (2023) Lehti, Hannu; Tuominen, Minna; Kilpi-Jakonen, Elina; Erola, Jani
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