Making social investment work: Exploring the expected outcomes of educational attainments

From 17:00 to 18:00
UNIL, IDHEAP, Room 005

The Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) is thrilled to invite you to the upcoming conference:

"Making social investment work: Exploring the expected outcomes of educational attainments", with Costanzo Ranci, professor of Economic Sociology at the Polytechnic of Milan and LIVES Visiting fellow

This talk adress the importance of the socio-economic context for the effectiveness of social investment policies. Based on joint work with Yuri Kazepov, our guest speaker Prof. Ranci will adress the importance of the socio-economic context for the effectiveness of social investment policies. The assumption is that social investment policies interact with embedded socio-economic structures, welfare arrangements, and production regimes, yielding context-specific results. The talk will focus on  the labour market-education nexus to identify key contextual conditions for social investment's positive impact on social outcomes.

The talk will be introduced by Prof. Giuliano Bonoli (IDHEAP-LIVES) and Prof. Leen Vandecasteele (ISS-LIVES) will kick-off the discussion

A few words about the speaker, Prof. Costanzo Ranci: 

Mister Ranci is a professor of Economic Sociology at the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. He has published several books and articles on welfare, social vulnerability, and long-term care policies. He has served as a consultant for many public institutions in Italy. He was  visiting scholar at the University of California – Berkeley, the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona, Harvard University, and Oxford University. His current research focuses on middle-class insecurity, social investment policies, and social care policies. In spring 2026, Prof Ranci is based at IDHEAP thanks to a LIVES visitor grant.