Thomas Dee

Barnett Family Professor of Education, Stanford University, 2018-present
Director, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities, 2018-present
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), 2015-present
Professor of Education, Stanford University, 2012-2018
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Stanford Graduate School of Education, 2015-2018
Director, Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015-2018
Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Virginia, 2010-2012
Research Professor of Education, University of Virginia, 2010-2012
Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Swarthmore College, 2005-2010
Director, Public Policy Program, Swarthmore College, 2005-2010
Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Swarthmore College, 1999-2005.
Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997-1999

Thomas S. Dee, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education at Stanford University and a Research Associate in the Programs on Economics of Education, Health Economics and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses largely on the use of quantitative methods (e.g., panel data techniques, instrumental variables, and random assignment) to inform contemporary policy debates. Recent examples include econometric evaluations of incentive and accountability-based reforms and an analysis of recent, stimulus-funded, school-turnaround initiatives.