Laura Heiskala
VTT / D.Soc.Sc.
lamhei@utu.fi : 497 |
social inequality; educational inequality; intergenerational inequality; quantitative methods
I work as a senior researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre. I successfully defended my PhD thesis in December 2024, focusing on intergenerational inequality in higher education in Finland.
Currently, I am involved in two research projects: Mapping inequalities through the life course (Mapineq) and Sufficiency solutions for a resilient, green, and just Finland (SISU).
In the academic year 2024–2025, I am involved in teaching the following methods courses in the Master’s Degree Programme in Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State: Panel Regression and Multilevel Modelling.
- Change in human capital of the immediate family (2024) Heiskala, Laura; Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, Sanna; Karonen, Esa; Erola, Jani
- 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
- Opportunity, choice, and barriers: A Register-based study on social stratification in higher education in Finland (2024) Heiskala, Laura
- Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison (2023)
- International Journal of Comparative Sociology
- Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s) (2023)
- Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
- Cyclic Educational Transitions and Social Inequality: Re-applications After Educational Rejections
(2022) Heiskala Laura, Kilpi-Jakonen Elina, Sirniö Outi, Erola jani - Utbildningsnivån i arv från föräldrarna till barnen bland finsk och svenskspråkiga finländare (2022)
- SFV-kalendern
- Compensatory and Multiplicative Advantages: Social Origin, School Performance, and Stratified Higher Education Enrolment in Finland (2021)
- European Sociological Review
- 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
- Lifetrack Policy Brief / Finland (2021) Heiskala Laura, Erola Jani
- Kahden korkeakoulun malli eriyttää oppilaita perhetaustan perusteella (2020)
- INVEST blog
- Koronakriisin vaikutukset lasten ja nuorten oppimiseen, koulutukseen ja hyvinvointiin pitkällä aikavälillä (2020)
- INVEST Policy brief (Politiikkasuositukset)
- Tracking and sorting in the Finnish educational system (2019) Laura Heiskala, Jani Erola
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