Thomas Dee
Thomas S. Dee is the Barnett Family Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, the Robert and Marion Oster Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Faculty Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, and a Research Associate with the programs on education, children, and health at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on using the modern tools of causal inference to provide novel and credible evidence on important innovations and controversies in public policy. Recent examples include studies of the impact of innovative school curricula and pedagogy, studies of changing patterns of school enrollment and academic engagement in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and evaluations of emerging local initiatives to field mental-health specialists as first responders on targeted emergency calls.
In 2024, Professor Dee received both the Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Peter Rossi Award for contributions to program evaluation from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). His collaborative research also received APPAM’s Raymond Vernon Memorial Award in 2015 and again in 2019. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Education Finance and Policy.