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Jouni Helin
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University teacher by day, PhD student by night. I do research on selection to higher education. University of Jyväskylä, FI.
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Jouni Helin @helinjouni.bsky.social · Jun 13
Are European universities exclusionary ivory towers, limiting access to doctoral education to children of the elites?

Short answer: No.

New paper with @economistatwork.com et al forthcoming in @europeansocieties.bsky.social (🧵 1/4)
Screenshot of the title page of the paper titled "Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe". Abstract: Despite increasing concerns over socioeconomic barriers in access to doctoral education, relatively little is known about the degree to which PhDs are selected in terms of their social background. In this paper, we use combined data on over 200~000 individuals from the European Social Survey, the European Values Study, and the World Values Survey to estimate the strength of the relationship between parental education and child PhD attainment within 26 European countries. We find that intergenerational mobility into PhD degrees is somewhat higher in the Nordic countries, and somewhat lower in the Eastern European countries in our sample, but also that mobility is generally high, that PhDs are socioeconomically diverse, and that mobility differences between the countries in our sample are generally small.
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gillwyness.bsky.social
Is it better to have standardised exams or teacher assessments?

Myself and my colleague @opmc1.bsky.social have read the literature so you don't have to. Our @iza.org world of labour summarises below #econsky
June 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
helinjouni.bsky.social
Miten valikoituneita tohtorikoulutetut ovat sosioekonomisen taustan perusteella Euroopassa?

➡️ Sosiaalinen liikkuvuus tohtoritasolle korkeinta Pohjoismaissa — mutta...
➡️ Liikkuvuus yleisestikin korkeaa
➡️ Erot maiden välillä pieniä

Uusi tutkimuksemme (open access): doi.org/10.1162/euso...
Artikkelin abstrakti: Despite increasing concerns over socioeconomic barriers in access to doctoral education, relatively little is known about the degree to which PhDs are selected in terms of their social background. In this paper, we use combined data on over 200 000 individuals from the European Social Survey, the European Values Study, and the World Values Survey to estimate the strength of the relationship between parental education and child PhD attainment within 26 European countries. We find that intergenerational mobility into PhD degrees is somewhat higher in the Nordic countries, and somewhat lower in the Eastern European countries in our sample, but also that mobility is generally high, that PhDs are socioeconomically diverse, and that mobility differences between the countries in our sample are generally small.
June 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
helinjouni.bsky.social
Are European universities exclusionary ivory towers, limiting access to doctoral education to children of the elites?

Short answer: No.

New paper with @economistatwork.com et al forthcoming in @europeansocieties.bsky.social (🧵 1/4)
Screenshot of the title page of the paper titled "Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe". Abstract: Despite increasing concerns over socioeconomic barriers in access to doctoral education, relatively little is known about the degree to which PhDs are selected in terms of their social background. In this paper, we use combined data on over 200~000 individuals from the European Social Survey, the European Values Study, and the World Values Survey to estimate the strength of the relationship between parental education and child PhD attainment within 26 European countries. We find that intergenerational mobility into PhD degrees is somewhat higher in the Nordic countries, and somewhat lower in the Eastern European countries in our sample, but also that mobility is generally high, that PhDs are socioeconomically diverse, and that mobility differences between the countries in our sample are generally small.
June 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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paulgp.com
Shout out to the audience members who nod their heads when you’re discussing a paper
May 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
helinjouni.bsky.social
Yliopistojen ja ympäröivän yhteiskunnan välinen vuorovaikutus on aiemmin osoitettua voimakkaampaa — erityisesti tieteenaloilla, joilla sitä stereotyyppisesti voisi ehkäpä vähiten odottaa. Siinä pähkinänkuoressa uuden tutkimuksemme tulos. Lyhyt 🧵 (1/10)
Abstract: Tacit knowledge flows can be facilitated by employment transitions, such as for example the transitions of PhDs from university employment to industry. There are however barriers to transitions into and out of university employment, and as a consequence, such transitions are relatively rare. PhDs can circumvent the barriers to permanent transitions by simultaneous secondary employment relationships. Though we know that such cross-employment exists, we do not know how common it de facto is. In this paper, we use a nine-year panel of daily-level employment microdata on the full population of Finnish PhDs to show that about 30% of university-employed PhDs are cross-employed outside of universities. This is a substantial share, and its magnitude alone suggests a central but underappreciated role for cross-employment in contemporary knowledge production and dissemination. We furthermore find that [...]
June 17, 2024 at 9:42 AM
helinjouni.bsky.social
Finland's PISA performance in 2006 vs. 2022
Daniel Craig in a suit (left), and Daniel Craig looking a bit worn out (right)
December 7, 2023 at 11:09 AM
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annastansbury.bsky.social
"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper:

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!)

twitter.com/annastansbur...
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November 3, 2023 at 4:56 PM
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jonasvlachos.bsky.social
The Danish and Swedish labor markets seem to work relatively well for displaced workers. www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
Comparing labor market efficiency across Europe
How do the consequences of losing a job vary in different European countries?
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October 10, 2023 at 6:31 PM
helinjouni.bsky.social
ICYMI:

A new online seminar series on intergenerational mobility kicks off today. 📅 Sep 28 🕟 10:30am EST | 4:30pm CET

What a great line-up! sites.google.com/view/rnim-se...
Schedule
Virtual Seminar Schedule The Virtual Seminars will be held monthly. RNIM members please watch out for a registration invitation that will be sent 1-2 weeks before each seminar. We encourage you to for...
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September 28, 2023 at 9:58 AM