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Biography
Thomas S. Dee, Ph.D., is the Barnett Family Professor at º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø University’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), the Robert and Marion Oster Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Senior Fellow at the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø 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,
Hoover Senior Fellow,
Senior Fellow,
Member,
Program affiliations
SHIPS (PhD): Economics of Education
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Data Science
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Policy
(MA) POLS
(MA) MA/MBA
(MS) EDS
Research interests
Recent publications
Ganelin, D., & Dee, T. S. (2025). New Advanced Placement course designed to broaden access promotes participation and demographic diversity in computer science education. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(15), e2422298122.
Dee, T. S. (2025). The Case for Preregistering Quasi-Experimental Program and Policy Evaluations. Evaluation Review, 193841X251326738.
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.
