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9:15-10:30 AM Salon D
Economic growth and competitiveness depend on human capital
quality. Quality is
maximized by early life-cycle investing.
Ross Thompson slides (PDF 421 K)
Ross Thompson speech notes (PDF 33 K)
Flavio Rezende-Cunha paper (PDF 410 K)
Flavio Rezende-Cunha speech notes (PDF 213 K))
Rob Grunewald and Art Rolnick slides (PDF 56 K)
Rob Grunewald and Art Rolnick paper ( PDF 25.8 K)
Rob Grunewald and Art Rolnick speech notes ( PDF 20 K)
Invest in Kids Working Group at the CED
Stuart G. Hoffman, Chief Economist, PNC Financial Services, introducer
Rob Dugger
Managing Director
Tudor Investment Corp.
moderator
Robert Dugger is a Managing Director of Tudor Investment Corporation, a global funds management company participating in major debt, equity, currency, and commodity markets worldwide. Mr. Dugger is responsible for international government policy analysis. He was previously Director for Policy and Chief Economist at the American Bankers Association where he led a panel of nationally recognized bank officers in developing a plan to deal with the US savings and loan crisis. The report of the panel proposed establishing the Resolution Trust Corporation and served as the starting point of the efforts in 1989 to solve the S&L problem.
Mr. Dugger also served as the Chief Economist of the Senate Banking Committee and Senior Staff Member of the Financial Institutions Subcommittee of the House Banking Committee. Mr. Dugger began his career at the Federal Reserve Board.
Mr. Dugger is a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and chairman of the Invest in Kids Working Group. The purpose of the working group is to ascertain and communicate the economic growth and job creation value of investing in young children. Information about the group can be found at www.ced.org . Mr. Dugger is also a co-founder of EveryChildMatters.org and is a member of the board of directors of Generations United.
Mr. Dugger is chairman of the board of directors of the Grumeti Reserves LLC, a Tanzanian ecotourism company organized to preserve the Wildebeest migration route in an area adjacent to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. He is also board chairman of its NGO affiliate, Grumeti Community and Conservation LLC.
Mr. Dugger received his BA from Davidson College and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Flavio Rezende-Cunha
Research Associate
Center for Program
Evaluation, University of Chicago
Dimitriy V. Masterov
Professor
of Economic
University of Chicago
Ross
Thompson
Professor of Psychology
University of California
Ross Thompson is Professor of Psychology at the University
of California, Davis. His research interests are in two fields. As a developmental
psychologist, he studies early parent-child relationships, the development
of emotional understanding and emotion regulation, conscience development,
and the growth of self-understanding. As a psycholegal scholar, he works
on the applications of developmental research to public policy concerns,
including the effects of divorce and custody arrangements on children, child
maltreatment prevention, school readiness, research ethics, and early brain
development and early intervention. Thompson is a founding member of the
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, and was a member of
the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development of
the National Academy of Sciences that produced the report, From Neurons
to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (National
Academy Press, 2000). He has twice been Associate Editor of Child Development, and
is Consulting Editor for a series of topical texts in developmental psychology
published by McGraw-Hill. His books include Preventing Child Maltreatment
through Social Support: A Critical Analysis (Sage, 1995),(edited
with Paul Amato) The Postdivorce Family: Children, Families, and Society (Sage,
1999), and Toward a Child-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Child Protection
System (edited with Gary Melton and Mark Small; Praeger, 2002). He also
edited Socioemotional Development, based on the 1988 Nebraska Symposium
on Motivation (University of Nebraska Press, 1990), and is coauthor of Infant-Mother
Attachment (Erlbaum, 1985). He is currently working on Early Brain
Development, the Media, and Public Policy (University of Nebraska Press)
and Emotional Development (McGraw-Hill). He received his A.B. from
Occidental College in 1976, his A.M. from the University of Michigan in 1979,
and the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Thompson has been a Visiting
Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education
in Berlin, a Senior NIMH Fellow in Law and Psychology at Stanford University,
and a Harris Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. He has received
the Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award for Early Distinguished Achievement
from the American Psychological Association, the Scholarship in Teaching
Award and the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award from the University
of Nebraska, where he was also a lifetime member of the Academy of Distinguished
Teachers.
Rob Grunewald
Regional Economic Analyst
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Grunewald is also responsible for economic education projects, including the Economics Challenge, a national quiz-bowl competition for high school students. He sits on the Advisory Board for the Academy of Finance of St. Paul Public Schools.
Grunewald joined the bank in 1993 and holds a bachelor's degree in economics and religion from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.
