Sanni Kotimäki
PhD
sanni.kotimaki@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1587-7975 |
Areas of expertise
Social health disparities; intergenerational effects; quantitative methods; childhood experiences; mental health; life-course research
Social health disparities; intergenerational effects; quantitative methods; childhood experiences; mental health; life-course research
Research
Sanni's research interests are focused on life courses, socioeconomic health disparities, intergenerational effects and the mechanisms behind these phenomena. She is analysing the role of parental resources, parental health and childhood environment in health and socioeconomic wellbeing.
Teaching
Quantitative methods, Applied statistics
Publications 
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- Do Workplace Structures Limit Fathers’ Use of Parental Leave? (2026)
- Social Policy Blog
(Other publication) - Support or suppress: Father’s parental leave uptake in the private-sector workplace context in Finland (2026)
- Journal of Social Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The very early antecedents of NEET: understanding the role of birthweight (2026)
- Journal of Social Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Very Early Antecedents of NEET: Understanding the Role of Birthweight (2026)
- Social Policy Blog
(Other publication) - Heterogeneous workplace peer effects in fathers’ parental leave uptake in Finland (2024) Helske, Satu; Helske, Jouni; Chapman, Simon; Kotimäki, Sanni; Salin, Milla; Tikka, Santtu
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Support or suppress: Father’s parental leave uptake in the workplace context in Finland (2024) Chapman, Simon; Kotimäki, Sanni; Helske, Satu; Hägglund, Anna Erika
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Birth weight, maternal education, and NEET status in young adulthood: Evidence using sibling fixed-effects (2023) Eskelinen, Niko; Salonen, Laura; Kotimäki, Sanni; Lindberg, Matti; Härkönen, Juho
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Meso-level contextual patterns of fathers' family leave uptake in Finland (2022) Chapman Simon, Kotimäki Sanni, Helske Satu
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Fathers on family leaves: Who, when, and why? (2021)
- INVEST blog
(E1 Popularised article) - Mechanisms in health and socioeconomic wellbeing – The role of parental resources, early-life experiences, and their accumulation (2021) Kotimäki Sanni
(G5 Article dissertation )
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