Thomas Dee

Thomas S. Dee is the Barnett Family Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, and the Faculty Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. Dee is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a senior fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution, and a Research Associate with the programs on education, children, and health at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses largely on the use of data and quantitative methods to inform contemporary issues of education policy and practice. Recent examples include studies of the impact of innovative school curricula and pedagogy and studies of changing patterns of school enrollment and engagement in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) awarded his collaborative research the Raymond Vernon Memorial Award in 2015 and again in 2019. He also received the 2024 Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association. 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 and as an Associate Editor of Economic Inquiry.