Jani
Erola
Professor, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
INVEST Research Flagship
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
Less Advantaged More Averse? Heterogeneous Effects of Parental Unemployment on Siblings’ Educational Achievement (2017)
(O2 Muu julkaisu )Does death really make us equal? Educational attainment and resource compensation after paternal death in Finland (2017)
Social Science Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Do nonresident fathers compensate for a lack of household resources? The associations between paternal involvement and children's cognitive and educational assessments in the UK (2017)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Intergenerational scars? The long-term effects of parental unemployment during a depression (2017)
Research On Finnish Society
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Ylisukupolvinen kasautuva huono-osaisuus Turussa ja muissa Suomen suurissa kaupungeissa (2017)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))The Replaceable: The Inheritance of Paternal and Maternal Socioeconomic Statuses in Non-Standard Families (2017)
Social Forces
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Periytyvää eriytymistä - vanhemmilla selvä vaikutus nuorten äänestämiseen (2017)
Tieto & Trendit : talous- ja hyvinvointikatsaus
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1))
Social Inequality Across the Generations: The Role of Compensation and Multiplication in Resource Accumulation (2017)
(Toimitustyö tieteelliselle lehdelle, kokoomateokselle tai konferenssijulkaisulle (C2))Kansainvälinen tiede, kotoperäinen hallinto (2017)
Professoriblogi
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))