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Biography
Thomas S. Dee, Ph.D., is the Barnett Family Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), the Robert and Marion Oster Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 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): Educational Data Science
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Policy
(MA) POLS
(MA) MA/MBA
(MS) EDS
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
Research interests
Recent publications
Dee, T. S., & Huffaker, E. (2026). Accelerating Opportunity: The Effects of Instructionally Supported Detracking. AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL.
Dee, T. S., & Pyne, J. (2025). Emergency mental health co-responders reduce involuntary psychiatric detentions in the USA. Nature Human Behaviour.
Dee, T. S. (2025). Recent immigration raids increased student absences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(45), e2510395122.
