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Thomas S. Dee

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Thomas Dee

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tdee@stanford.edu

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Assistant: Mitch Gilmer

Office: CERAS 514

Biography

Thomas S. Dee, Ph.D., is the Barnett Family Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), a Senior Fellow (Joint) at the Hoover Institution, and the Faculty Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. His research focuses largely on the use of quantitative methods to inform contemporary issues of public policy and practice. In 2024, he received the Peter H. Rossi Award for Contributions to the Theory or Practice of Program Evaluation from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) and the Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Other Titles

Professor, Graduate School of Education
Hoover Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Program Affiliations

SHIPS (PhD): Economics of Education
SHIPS (PhD): Education Data Science
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Policy
(MA) POLS
(MA) MA/MBA
(MS) EDS

Recent Publications

Dee, T. S. (2024). No one-size-fits-all solution to chronic absenteeism. PHI DELTA KAPPAN, 106(3), 8–12.

Dee, T. S. (2024). Higher chronic absenteeism threatens academic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(3), e2312249121.

Dee, T. S. (2023). Where the Kids Went: Nonpublic Schooling and Demographic Change during the Pandemic Exodus from Public Schools. TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD, 125(6), 119–129.

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