J Erola
Biographic Data
| ID | 17039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Erola |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Erola |
| SIGNATURE | EROLA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8008-7032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 387 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Inter-Cohort Differences in Income over the Life Course
Income trajectories have diverged across birth cohorts in many Western countries, indicating that changing structural conditions may have altered income development over time. However, it is not well understood how inter-cohort variations in social and economic factors—such as education, labor markets, and welfare transfers—have shaped opportunities and constraints, contributing to inter-cohort income differences. Using total-population registers…
Access to Higher Education and Support for Meritocracy
Prior research has emphasized perceptions of effort-based meritocracy (i.e., the descriptive belief that hard work leads to success), noting a rising trend in meritocratic beliefs across countries. The current study proposes focusing on three components of merit—effort, skill, and education — and on a less-examined form of meritocratic beliefs: support for meritocracy (i.e., the prescriptive belief that society should distribute rewards based on …
The Contingency of Future vs. Present Orientation and Status Attainment
Intergenerational social mobility of cohorts born from 1951 to 1980 in Finland
Theories of change in social class mobility present contrasting expectations of either change or persistence in mobility as societies develop. This article examines intergenerational social class mobility for cohorts born from 1951 to 1980 in Finland. We analyse change across cohorts in the main association between social origins and destinations and the intervening associations between origins and education and education and destinations. We inv…
Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality
The Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality is motivated by a core question in social science: to what extent does one’s family background and childhood experience predict success in life? Bringing together experts in their respective fields from across the globe, this innovative Research Handbook provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary account of the rich research on intergenerational inequality, focusing on its origins in sociology…
Age of entry into early childhood education and care, literacy and reduction of educational inequality in Nordic countries
An early start to good-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is considered beneficial, especially for disadvantaged children's development and educational outcomes. This assumption was tested using the latest two waves (2015 and 2018) of data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in five countries using the Nordic model of early education and care: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The article fin…
Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes
In this country-comparative study, we ask to what extent differentiation in secondary education accounts for the association between social origins and social destinations in adult age. We go beyond the widely applied formal definitions of educational tracking and particularly pay attention to country-specific approaches to educational differentiation. Our main expectation is that once we factor in these particularities, the degree to which educa…
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement
Persistent university intentions
Re-applying after an educational rejection is a considerable but understated part of access to selective educational institutions. We study social inequalities in stopping applying to university after an educational rejection to identify the extent to which educational intentions are more constrained among students from the lower social strata. We explore applications to universities in Finland, where student selection takes place at the gates of…
The limited role of personal goal striving in status attainment
Despite evidence of declining intergenerational mobility, recent studies have shown a rising trend of meritocratic belief (e.g., hard work pays off) among American adults. However, as scholarly attention has been focused on the power of adolescent beliefs (e.g., expectations and aspirations), little is known about the role of adults' hard work in status attainment. Using the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) survey data, we examine the role of…
Licensed Professionals and Intergenerational Big-, Meso- and Micro-Class Immobility within the Upper Class; Social Closure and Gendered Outcomes among Italian Graduates
This article examines how processes of social closure promote persistence at the top of the occupational hierarchy and how they vary by gender. We focus on the links between professional closure strategies and intergenerational immobility in professional employment among Italian graduates. Italy displays the highest levels of service market regulation across Europe, and professionals are the largest occupational group within the upper class; ther…
The role of partnering and assortative mating for income inequality
Previous studies covering various developed countries suggest that changes in assortative mating by education have contributed only a little to the changes in income inequality, opposite to the expectations of many. In this paper we consider two potential reasons for the zero effects: (a) that it is the selection into partnership rather than assortative mating according to specific characteristics that matters; and (b) that for assortative mating…
Socioeconomic Background and Gene-Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course
To what extent are differences in education, occupational standing, and income attributable to genes, and do genetic influences differ by parents' socioeconomic standing? When in a children's life course does parents' socioeconomic standing matter for genetic influences, and for which of the outcomes, fixed at the different stages of the attainment process, do they matter most? We studied these research questions using Finnish register-based data…
Geographical mobility and children’s non‐completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany
It is often assumed that families migrate to improve their economic and social prospects, and that these additional resources can benefit the whole family. However, existing research suggests that many children who have experienced (internal) migration underperform compared to their non‐migrating peers in terms of different socioeconomic outcomes. In this article, we study the effects of geographical mobility on children’s non‐completion of upper…
Sibling Similarity in Education Across and Within Societies
The extent to which siblings resemble each other measures the omnibus impact of family background on life chances. We study sibling similarity in cognitive skills, school grades, and educational attainment in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also compare sibling similarity by parental education and occupation within these societies. The comparison of sibling correlations across and within societies a…
From Generation to Generation
The literature on the reproduction of political participation across generations has focused almost exclusively on parental effects. Yet, other family members may plausibly play an important role as well. This study explores the role of grandparents in the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to vote. Grandparental effects are theorized in terms of both social learning and status transmission. The analysis takes advantage of a unique …
Compensatory and Multiplicative Advantages
The rules of intake, which determine how educational institutions are accessed, play a significant part in generating intergenerational educational inequalities. Different rules may allow parental advantages to compensate for students' lack of advantages (such as academic performance) or to multiply and help only those students who are in a position to use such additional advantages. In this article, we study compensation and the multiplication o…
Child’s age at parental death and university education
Losing a parent due to premature death is generally associated with negative child outcomes. However, the study of possible (modifying) effects of the child’s age and family background has been neglected in previous research. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between the child’s age at parental death and the child’s university education, and we study whether the possible association is modified by the child’s family background. We apply …
Sibling Similarities and the Importance of Parental Socioeconomic Position in Electoral Participation
We studied the impact of an individual’s family and community background on their voting propensity in the 2015 Finnish parliamentary elections by employing a sibling design on an individual-level register-based dataset. The results showed that a quarter of the total variance in voter turnout was shared between siblings. Considering the dichotomous nature of the turnout variable, this implies that background has a strong effect which is almost co…
The heterogeneous effects of parental unemployment on siblings’ educational outcomes
The literature on the intergenerational effects of unemployment has shown that unemployment has short-term negative effects on children’s schooling ambitions, performance and high school dropout rates. The long-term effects on children’s educational outcomes, however, are mixed. One potentially important limitation of previous studies has been that they have ignored the heterogeneous effects of parental unemployment on children’s education. We st…
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
Parents-in-law tend to form an important part of individuals’ social capital and thus can be expected to have an influence on occupational mobility. With Finnish Census Panel data of almost 100,000 individuals born between 1970 and 1979, followed from the age of 18 to their late thirties, we study whether the resources of the parents-in-law are associated with status attainment. We find that an increase in the resources of parents-in-law is posit…
Tying the Extended Family Knot-Grandparents' Influence on Educational Achievement
In present-day western societies grandparents and grandchildren have longer years of shared lifetime than ever before. We investigate whether children with more grandparent resources have a higher probability of achieving the general secondary degree compared with children with fewer resources, or whether shared life time with grandparents increases the probability of achieving the general secondary degree. We use high-quality Finnish Census Pane…
Institutional change and parental compensation in intergenerational attainment
Previous research has shown how institutional changes, such as educational expansion, have weakened parental influence on educational attainment. We extend this analysis to occupational attainment and put forth a parental compensation hypothesis: as the origin-education (OE) association weakens, parents act to compensate for this in order to maintain their influence on the child's occupational attainment. We should see this as a strengthened orig…
Resource Compensation from the Extended Family
The majority of studies on social and educational mobility neglect the role of the extended family. We argue that this misses important ways in which extended family members may help compensate disadvantage in children’s immediate family. Moreover, existing studies on extended family members have focused on grandparents, with only a couple of studies considering aunts and uncles. We examine the role of both grandparents’ and aunts and uncles’ res…
Social Inequality Across the Generations
Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement
Social Mobility over Three Generations in Finland, 1950-2000
We modelled social mobility over three generations in Finland from 1950 to 2000. From the 1950 population census sample, and consequent censuses, we constructed 57,585 three-generation lineages. A three-dimensional mobility table, containing eight layers—one for each grandmother and -father, son and daughter, and grandson and -daughter lineage—was built using the Erikson–Goldthorpe class schema. The social inheritance process was found to be very…
Social Mobility and Education of Finnish Cohorts Born 1936-75
This is a study of the intergenerational occupational class mobility of cohorts born 1936-75 in Finland and of the role of the changes in educational attainment. The data are taken from the Finnish Census Panel, from which mobility tables for 5-year cohorts that have reached the age of 25 have been constructed at 7 time-points: 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000. The period change in social fluidity appears to be towards greater openness…
Labor and Love
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…
Social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty in the Nordic countries
Street-level bureaucrats have been given an increasing role in the implementation of policies aimed at the poor. The article analyses: (1) how social workers in the Nordic countries explain the causes of poverty and whether there are variations between countries in social workers’ perceptions; and (2) the nature of the impact, if any, of various individual- and municipal-level factors on social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty. Surve…
Resource Compensation from the Extended Family
The majority of studies on social and educational mobility neglect the role of the extended family. We argue that this misses important ways in which extended family members may help compensate disadvantage in children’s immediate family. Moreover, existing studies on extended family members have focused on grandparents, with only a couple of studies considering aunts and uncles. We examine the role of both grandparents’ and aunts and uncles’ res…
Socioeconomic Background and Gene-Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course
To what extent are differences in education, occupational standing, and income attributable to genes, and do genetic influences differ by parents' socioeconomic standing? When in a children's life course does parents' socioeconomic standing matter for genetic influences, and for which of the outcomes, fixed at the different stages of the attainment process, do they matter most? We studied these research questions using Finnish register-based data…
Sibling Similarity in Education Across and Within Societies
The extent to which siblings resemble each other measures the omnibus impact of family background on life chances. We study sibling similarity in cognitive skills, school grades, and educational attainment in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also compare sibling similarity by parental education and occupation within these societies. The comparison of sibling correlations across and within societies a…
The heterogeneous effects of parental unemployment on siblings’ educational outcomes
The literature on the intergenerational effects of unemployment has shown that unemployment has short-term negative effects on children’s schooling ambitions, performance and high school dropout rates. The long-term effects on children’s educational outcomes, however, are mixed. One potentially important limitation of previous studies has been that they have ignored the heterogeneous effects of parental unemployment on children’s education. We st…
Intergenerational accumulation of social disadvantages across generations in young adulthood
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of social disadvantages in the context of the Finnish welfare state. Previous research on intergenerational transmission has typically concentrated on educational attainment, income and social class as separate factors. Researchers commonly measure parental standing using single indicators that are very general and do not address social disadvantage; rather, these single indicators only address socioe…
Sibling Similarity in Family Formation
Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal family-formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way whether sibling similarity exists in family-fo…
Compensatory and Multiplicative Advantages
The rules of intake, which determine how educational institutions are accessed, play a significant part in generating intergenerational educational inequalities. Different rules may allow parental advantages to compensate for students' lack of advantages (such as academic performance) or to multiply and help only those students who are in a position to use such additional advantages. In this article, we study compensation and the multiplication o…
Parental Resources, Sibship Size, and Educational Performance in 20 Countries
We study whether having several siblings decreases the level of educational performance of adolescents and whether this phenomenon can be compensated by other factors such as the economic or cultural resources of the parents. Based on this compensation model, parental resources should be associated with children’s educational attainments more strongly in families with a higher rather than a lower number of children. We analyzed the Program for In…
Does death really make us equal? Educational attainment and resource compensation after paternal death in Finland
Attempts to explain the persistent importance of family background for children's educational attainment typically highlight the ways in which parents pass down educational, economic and social resources to their children. However, parental resources may also play a crucial role for preventing family crises from spiraling into cumulative disadvantage. To study such compensation processes, we examine the consequences of a father's death on childre…
Institutional change and parental compensation in intergenerational attainment
Previous research has shown how institutional changes, such as educational expansion, have weakened parental influence on educational attainment. We extend this analysis to occupational attainment and put forth a parental compensation hypothesis: as the origin-education (OE) association weakens, parents act to compensate for this in order to maintain their influence on the child's occupational attainment. We should see this as a strengthened orig…
Cumulative Socio-economic Disadvantage and Secondary Education in Finland
We analyse how the disadvantages that are associated with parental background, as measured using multiple indicators, are related to the probability of a child completing secondary school by the age of 22. We measure family background by the parents’ relative income poverty, the social assistance that they received, and their unemployment when their children were young. We further study how negative associations between such disadvantages and the…
Why Probability Has Not Succeeded in Sociology
Arguably, sociologists often apply deterministic explanations, unlike in many other sciences where probabilistic explanations have turned out to be more efficient. The advantages of applying probabilistic explanations more frequently could be: improved possibilities for cross-disciplinary work; the simplification of successful explanations; an easier way to implement uncertainty to models; new ways to utilize the classical theories of sociology; …
Tying the Extended Family Knot-Grandparents' Influence on Educational Achievement
In present-day western societies grandparents and grandchildren have longer years of shared lifetime than ever before. We investigate whether children with more grandparent resources have a higher probability of achieving the general secondary degree compared with children with fewer resources, or whether shared life time with grandparents increases the probability of achieving the general secondary degree. We use high-quality Finnish Census Pane…
Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes
In this country-comparative study, we ask to what extent differentiation in secondary education accounts for the association between social origins and social destinations in adult age. We go beyond the widely applied formal definitions of educational tracking and particularly pay attention to country-specific approaches to educational differentiation. Our main expectation is that once we factor in these particularities, the degree to which educa…
Child’s age at parental death and university education
Losing a parent due to premature death is generally associated with negative child outcomes. However, the study of possible (modifying) effects of the child’s age and family background has been neglected in previous research. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between the child’s age at parental death and the child’s university education, and we study whether the possible association is modified by the child’s family background. We apply …
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
Parents-in-law tend to form an important part of individuals’ social capital and thus can be expected to have an influence on occupational mobility. With Finnish Census Panel data of almost 100,000 individuals born between 1970 and 1979, followed from the age of 18 to their late thirties, we study whether the resources of the parents-in-law are associated with status attainment. We find that an increase in the resources of parents-in-law is posit…
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
This article investigated the associations between nonresident fathers’ involvement and cognitive and educational achievements in children. In particular, we tested the resource compensation model, which predicts that the involvement of nonresident fathers should compensate for the lack of household resources and that the effect should be strong, particularly in families with low resources. We use the British Millennium Cohort Study (n = 3445), i…
No Crisis but Methodological Separatism
This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented sociology using data from the articles of three Nordic sociological journals: one international ( Acta Sociologica), one Finnish ( Sosiologia), and one Danish ( Dansk Sociologi). The data consists of 943 articles in total: 353 published in Acta Sociologica, 277 in Sosiologia and 313 in Dansk Sociologi over the period 1990-2009. We distinguish between three main…
From Generation to Generation
The literature on the reproduction of political participation across generations has focused almost exclusively on parental effects. Yet, other family members may plausibly play an important role as well. This study explores the role of grandparents in the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to vote. Grandparental effects are theorized in terms of both social learning and status transmission. The analysis takes advantage of a unique …
The limited role of personal goal striving in status attainment
Despite evidence of declining intergenerational mobility, recent studies have shown a rising trend of meritocratic belief (e.g., hard work pays off) among American adults. However, as scholarly attention has been focused on the power of adolescent beliefs (e.g., expectations and aspirations), little is known about the role of adults' hard work in status attainment. Using the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) survey data, we examine the role of…
Social Mobility over Three Generations in Finland, 1950-2000
We modelled social mobility over three generations in Finland from 1950 to 2000. From the 1950 population census sample, and consequent censuses, we constructed 57,585 three-generation lineages. A three-dimensional mobility table, containing eight layers—one for each grandmother and -father, son and daughter, and grandson and -daughter lineage—was built using the Erikson–Goldthorpe class schema. The social inheritance process was found to be very…
Social Mobility and Education of Finnish Cohorts Born 1936-75
This is a study of the intergenerational occupational class mobility of cohorts born 1936-75 in Finland and of the role of the changes in educational attainment. The data are taken from the Finnish Census Panel, from which mobility tables for 5-year cohorts that have reached the age of 25 have been constructed at 7 time-points: 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000. The period change in social fluidity appears to be towards greater openness…
Why Probability Has Not Succeeded in Sociology
Arguably, sociologists often apply deterministic explanations, unlike in many other sciences where probabilistic explanations have turned out to be more efficient. The advantages of applying probabilistic explanations more frequently could be: improved possibilities for cross-disciplinary work; the simplification of successful explanations; an easier way to implement uncertainty to models; new ways to utilize the classical theories of sociology; …
More Careful or Less Marriageable? Parental Divorce, Spouse Selection and Entry into Marriage
Despite the large literature on the long-term effects of parental divorce, few studies have analyzed the effects of parental divorce on spouse selection behavior. However, the characteristics of one's spouse can have important effects on economic well-being and on marital success. We use discrete-time, event-history data from Finnish population registers to study the effects of parental divorce on entry into marriage with spouses who have differe…
Labor and Love
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…
Social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty in the Nordic countries
Street-level bureaucrats have been given an increasing role in the implementation of policies aimed at the poor. The article analyses: (1) how social workers in the Nordic countries explain the causes of poverty and whether there are variations between countries in social workers’ perceptions; and (2) the nature of the impact, if any, of various individual- and municipal-level factors on social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty. Surve…
Sibling Similarity in Family Formation
Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal family-formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way whether sibling similarity exists in family-fo…
No Crisis but Methodological Separatism
This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented sociology using data from the articles of three Nordic sociological journals: one international ( Acta Sociologica), one Finnish ( Sosiologia), and one Danish ( Dansk Sociologi). The data consists of 943 articles in total: 353 published in Acta Sociologica, 277 in Sosiologia and 313 in Dansk Sociologi over the period 1990-2009. We distinguish between three main…
The Replaceable
T his paper studies how socioeconomic attainments of parents in intact two-parent families, non-residential parents, single parents, and parents in stepfamilies affect children's attainments. In doing so, we draw together two lines of research: one on the inheritance of social status that consistently reports that children benefit from greater maternal and paternal resources, and another on family instability that argues that parental separation …
Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement
Parental Resources, Sibship Size, and Educational Performance in 20 Countries
We study whether having several siblings decreases the level of educational performance of adolescents and whether this phenomenon can be compensated by other factors such as the economic or cultural resources of the parents. Based on this compensation model, parental resources should be associated with children’s educational attainments more strongly in families with a higher rather than a lower number of children. We analyzed the Program for In…
Cumulative Socio-economic Disadvantage and Secondary Education in Finland
We analyse how the disadvantages that are associated with parental background, as measured using multiple indicators, are related to the probability of a child completing secondary school by the age of 22. We measure family background by the parents’ relative income poverty, the social assistance that they received, and their unemployment when their children were young. We further study how negative associations between such disadvantages and the…
Social Inequality Across the Generations
Swinging support? Economic cycles and changes in the public attitudes towards welfare recipients in Finland 1995–2010
This article analyses the variation in public attitudes towards welfare recipients according to economic cycles. This question is of great importance at the time of recent fiscal crisis across Europe. Previous research has indicated that economic recession leads to declining welfare state support, although some findings show stronger support during times of increased financial strain. Finland provides ample opportunity to investigate the effects …
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
This article investigated the associations between nonresident fathers’ involvement and cognitive and educational achievements in children. In particular, we tested the resource compensation model, which predicts that the involvement of nonresident fathers should compensate for the lack of household resources and that the effect should be strong, particularly in families with low resources. We use the British Millennium Cohort Study (n = 3445), i…
Intergenerational accumulation of social disadvantages across generations in young adulthood
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of social disadvantages in the context of the Finnish welfare state. Previous research on intergenerational transmission has typically concentrated on educational attainment, income and social class as separate factors. Researchers commonly measure parental standing using single indicators that are very general and do not address social disadvantage; rather, these single indicators only address socioe…
Does death really make us equal? Educational attainment and resource compensation after paternal death in Finland
Attempts to explain the persistent importance of family background for children's educational attainment typically highlight the ways in which parents pass down educational, economic and social resources to their children. However, parental resources may also play a crucial role for preventing family crises from spiraling into cumulative disadvantage. To study such compensation processes, we examine the consequences of a father's death on childre…
Institutional change and parental compensation in intergenerational attainment
Previous research has shown how institutional changes, such as educational expansion, have weakened parental influence on educational attainment. We extend this analysis to occupational attainment and put forth a parental compensation hypothesis: as the origin-education (OE) association weakens, parents act to compensate for this in order to maintain their influence on the child's occupational attainment. We should see this as a strengthened orig…
Resource Compensation from the Extended Family
The majority of studies on social and educational mobility neglect the role of the extended family. We argue that this misses important ways in which extended family members may help compensate disadvantage in children’s immediate family. Moreover, existing studies on extended family members have focused on grandparents, with only a couple of studies considering aunts and uncles. We examine the role of both grandparents’ and aunts and uncles’ res…
Sibling Similarities and the Importance of Parental Socioeconomic Position in Electoral Participation
We studied the impact of an individual’s family and community background on their voting propensity in the 2015 Finnish parliamentary elections by employing a sibling design on an individual-level register-based dataset. The results showed that a quarter of the total variance in voter turnout was shared between siblings. Considering the dichotomous nature of the turnout variable, this implies that background has a strong effect which is almost co…
The heterogeneous effects of parental unemployment on siblings’ educational outcomes
The literature on the intergenerational effects of unemployment has shown that unemployment has short-term negative effects on children’s schooling ambitions, performance and high school dropout rates. The long-term effects on children’s educational outcomes, however, are mixed. One potentially important limitation of previous studies has been that they have ignored the heterogeneous effects of parental unemployment on children’s education. We st…
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
Parents-in-law tend to form an important part of individuals’ social capital and thus can be expected to have an influence on occupational mobility. With Finnish Census Panel data of almost 100,000 individuals born between 1970 and 1979, followed from the age of 18 to their late thirties, we study whether the resources of the parents-in-law are associated with status attainment. We find that an increase in the resources of parents-in-law is posit…
Tying the Extended Family Knot-Grandparents' Influence on Educational Achievement
In present-day western societies grandparents and grandchildren have longer years of shared lifetime than ever before. We investigate whether children with more grandparent resources have a higher probability of achieving the general secondary degree compared with children with fewer resources, or whether shared life time with grandparents increases the probability of achieving the general secondary degree. We use high-quality Finnish Census Pane…
Child’s age at parental death and university education
Losing a parent due to premature death is generally associated with negative child outcomes. However, the study of possible (modifying) effects of the child’s age and family background has been neglected in previous research. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between the child’s age at parental death and the child’s university education, and we study whether the possible association is modified by the child’s family background. We apply …
Geographical mobility and children’s non‐completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany
It is often assumed that families migrate to improve their economic and social prospects, and that these additional resources can benefit the whole family. However, existing research suggests that many children who have experienced (internal) migration underperform compared to their non‐migrating peers in terms of different socioeconomic outcomes. In this article, we study the effects of geographical mobility on children’s non‐completion of upper…
Sociology (34 works) · Economics (30 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Demographic economics (27 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (26 works) · Demography (25 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Population (18 works) · Socioeconomic status (16 works)