Thomas S. 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.

Dee’s 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 on critical math and reading skills, 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.