Juho Härkönen

Biography

Juho Härkönen is Professor of Sociology, Dean of Postdoctoral Studies and Director of the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies at the European University Institute. He joined the EUI in February 2018, while on leave from Stockholm University. He took his PhD from the EUI in 2007, and was a postdoc at Yale before moving to Stockholm in 2009. He was visiting professor at the University of Turku (2010-18).

His research interests cover life course research, the causes and consequences of family dynamics and structure, social stratification, and health. His recent publications have covered antecedent and outcomes of divorce, social stratification in health, and educational inequality.

Juho Härkönen supervises dissertations on the above topics, but is also open to advising doctoral work more broadly on topics in sociology. Although he uses quantitative methods in his own work, he open to projects using qualitative methods as well.

As Director of the Max Weber Programme and Dean of Postdoctoral Studies, he is responsible for the overall management of the Programme.

Juho Härkönen is also co-director of the Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre, and of Florence Population Studies, and editor-in-chief of Advances in Life Course Research.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

CLIC

Completed

Technological inequality – Understanding the relation between recent technological innovations and social inequalities

Supervisees

Mentor for

Fields of expertise

Life course research Stratification, social stratification Family demography Health and aging Comparative research design

Recent research output

FRESE, Joris; HARKONEN, Juho; HIX, Simon (2024), Brextinction? : how cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit, Article
GRÄTZ, Michael; HARKONEN, Juho (2024), The effect of parental separation on educational achievement : an instrumental variable analysis, Article
COZZANI, Marco; HARKONEN, Juho (2023), The influence of early health on educational and socioeconomic outcomes, Contribution to book
PORTHAN, Elviira; LINDBERG, Matti; HARKONEN, Juho; SCHEININ, Noora M.; KARLSSON, Linnea; KARLSSON, Hasse; EKHOLM, Eeva (2023), Childhood trauma and fear of childbirth : findings from a birth cohort study, Article
BILLINGSLEY, Sunnee; HARKONEN, Juho; HORNUNG, Maria (2023), The sensitivity of family-related behaviors to economic and social turbulence in post-socialist countries, 1970-2010, Article
MOGENSEN, Hanna; TETTAMANTI, Giorgio; ELMERDAHL FREDERIKSEN, Line; TALBÄCK, Mats; HARKONEN, Juho; MODIG, Karin; PEDERSEN, Camilla; KROYER, Anja; HIRVONEN, Elli; KYRÖNLAHTI, Anniina; HEYMAN, Mats; SÄLLFORS HOLMQVIST, Anna; HASLE, Henrik; MADANAT-HARJUOJA, Laura; MALILA, Nea; FALCK WINTHER, Jeanette; ERDMANN, Friederike; FEYCHTING, Maria (2024), Educational attainment in survivors of childhood cancer in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, Article
HARKONEN, Juho; BILLINGSLEY, Sunnee; HORNUNG, Maria (2020), Divorce trends in seven countries over the long transition from state socialism : 1981-2004, Contribution to book
HARKONEN, Juho; GROTTI, Raffaele (2021), Le conseguenze del divorzio per il benessere dei figli, Contribution to book
SETTERSTEN, Richard A. Jr.; BERNARDI, Laura; HARKONEN, Juho; ANTONUCCI, Toni C.; DYKSTRA, Pearl A.; HECKHAUSEN, Jutta; KUH, Diane; MAYER, Karl Ulrich; MOEN, Phyllis; MORTIMER, Jeylan T.; MULDER, Clara H.; SMEEDING, Timothy; VAN DER LIPPE, Tanja; HAGESTAD, Gunhild O.; KOHLI, Martin; LEVY, René; SCHOON, Ingrid; THOMSON, Elizabeth (2021), The Covid-19 pandemic : inequalities and the life course, Contribution to book
JONSSON, Martin; HARKONEN, Juho; LJUNGMAN, Petter; NORDBERG, Per; RINGH, Mattias; HIRLEKAR, Geir; RAWSHANI, Araz; HERLITZ, Johan; LJUNG, Rickard; HOLLENBERG, Jacob (2021), Inequalities in income and education are associated with survival differences after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest : nationwide observational study, Article

Additional information

Seminar: Sociology, together with Herman van de Werfhorst and Arnout van de Rijt (Winter 2023)

Workshop: Longitudinal data analysis: Sequence analysis and growth curve models (Spring 2023)

Seminar: Life course research: change and inequality over human lives (Winter 2023)

Workshop: Panel Data (Spring 2022)

Seminar: Social Demography (Spring 2022)

Seminar: Intermediate Quantitative Methods (Winter 2021)

Workshop: Measurement in the social sciences, organised with L. Littvay, CEU (Spring 2021)

Seminar: Advanced topics in life course research, together with Fabrizio Bernardi (Winter 2020)

Seminar: Introduction to Quantitative Methods, together with Arnout van de Rijt (Autumn 2020)

Workshop: Sequence Analysis in the Social Demography (Spring 2020), organised with Anette Fasang (Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences)

Workshop: Multilevel modelling (Spring 2020), organised with L. Littvay (Max Weber Fellow)

Workshop: Panel Data Analysis (Spring 2020), organised with R. Grotti (Research Fellow)

Seminar: Social Demography (Winter 2020)

Seminar: Introduction to Quantitatve Methods, together with Arnout van de Rijt (Autumn 2019)

Workshop: Panel Data Analysis (Spring 2019), organised with R. Grotti (Research Fellow)

Workshop: Event History Analysis (Spring 2019)

Seminar: Life Course Research (Winter 2019)

Seminar: Introduction to Quantitative Methods (together with Elias Dinas) (Autumn 2018)

Seminar: Multilevel modelling (Winter 2018)

Härkönen, J., Jalovaara, M., Lappalainen, E., & Miettinen, A. 2023. Double disadvantage in a Nordic welfare state: A demographic analysis of the single parent employment gap in Finland, 1987–2018. European Journal of Population
Hogendoorn, B., & Härkönen, J. 2023. Single motherhood and multigenerational coresidence in Europe. Population and Development Review
Härkönen, J., Brons, M.D., & Dronkers, J. 2021. Family forerunners? Parental separation and partnership formation in 16 countries. Journal of Marriage and Family 83(1): 119-36.
Härkönen, J. & Sirniö, O. 2020. Educational transitions and educational inequality: A multiple pathways sequential logit model analysis of Finnish birth cohorts 1960-85. European Sociological Review 36(5): 700-19.

More information

26 - 28 October 2022; Popfest 2022

18 - 19 October 2019: Divorce conference, co-organised with F. Bernardi and the University of Florence

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Juho Härkönen

Biography

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Supervisees

Mentor for

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

Additional information

Teaching - seminars and workshops

Selected Publications

Events and conferences

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