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2252
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1090

Overview

Thomas S. Dee is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans education, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, general health professions, and accounting, with a prominent focus on education.

Their research topics cover various issues in education and social wellbeing, including:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

Thomas S. Dee has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Educational Researcher
  • Economics of Education Review
  • Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers with corresponding year and venue:

  • Ethnic studies increases longer-run academic engagement and attainment, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Higher chronic absenteeism threatens academic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Unconscious bias in the classroom: Evidence and opportunities, 2023, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • A community response approach to mental health and substance abuse crises reduced crime, 2022, Science Advances
  • Patterns in the Pandemic Decline of Public School Enrollment, 2021, Educational Researcher

Frequent collaborators with whom Thomas S. Dee has co-authored multiple publications include:

  • Jaymes Pyne
  • Elizabeth Huffaker
  • Emily Merola
  • Chloe Gibbs
  • Emily K. Penner

Best Publications

  • Teachers, Race and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment

    Thomas S. Dee

  • A Teacher Like Me: Does Race, Ethnicity, or Gender Matter?

    Thomas S. Dee

  • The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement.

    Thomas S. Dee;Brian Jacob

  • Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement

    Thomas S. Dee

  • Are there civic returns to education

    Thomas S. Dee

  • The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence From an Ethnic Studies Curriculum

    Thomas S. Dee;Emily K. Penner

  • Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT.

    Thomas S. Dee;James Wyckoff

  • The impact of no Child Left Behind on student achievement: The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement

    Thomas S. Dee;Brian Jacob

  • Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS

    Melinda Adnot;Thomas Dee;Veronica Katz;James Wyckoff

  • State alcohol policies, teen drinking and traffic fatalities

    Thomas S Dee

  • Alcohol abuse and economic conditions: evidence from repeated cross-sections of individual-level data.

    Thomas S. Dee

  • Competition and the quality of public schools

    Thomas S. Dee

  • The Why Chromosome: How a Teacher's Gender Affects Boys and Girls

    Thomas S. Dee

  • THE NON-COGNITIVE RETURNS TO CLASS SIZE

    Thomas S. Dee;Martin Raymond West

  • The Effects of NCLB on School Resources and Practices.

    Thomas S. Dee;Thomas S. Dee;Brian Jacob;Brian Jacob;Nathaniel L. Schwartz

  • Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools. IES Practice Guide. NCEE 2008-4020.

    Rebecca Herman;Priscilla Dawson;Thomas Dee;Jay Greene

  • Graduated driver licensing and teen traffic fatalities

    Thomas S. Dee;David C. Grabowski;Michael A. Morrisey

  • Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT: Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance

    Thomas S. Dee;James Wyckoff

  • The race connection: are teachers more effective with students who share their ethnicity?

    Thomas S. Dee

  • Does merit pay reward good teachers? Evidence from a randomized experiment

    Thomas S. Dee;Benjamin J. Keys

  • The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement. NBER Working Paper No. 15531.

    Thomas Dee;Brian Jacob

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian A. Jacob
Brian A. Jacob University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James Wyckoff
James Wyckoff University of Virginia
Theodore J. Joyce
Theodore J. Joyce Baruch College
Jonah E. Rockoff
Jonah E. Rockoff Columbia University
Martin R. West
Martin R. West Harvard University
Michael A. Morrisey
Michael A. Morrisey Texas A&M University
Joshua Aronson
Joshua Aronson New York University
Susanna Loeb
Susanna Loeb Brown University

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