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262:, Dee finds that assignment of students to a teacher of their own ethnicity significantly increased both black and white students' achievements in mathematics and reading. Vice versa, Dee has also studied how demographic similarity between students and teachers influences teachers' subjective evaluations of student behavior and performance and found students' racial, ethnic and gender characteristics to substantially colour teachers' perceptions of student performance. However, the former two effects mainly appear in conjunction with students coming from poor family backgrounds or living in the 298:(MLDA) from 18 to 21 having reduced the numbers of teen smokers by 3-5% and higher cigarette taxes having lowered the prevalence of teen drinking. However, while teens facing a lower MLDA were substantially more likely to drink, the raise in the MLDA had no significant effect on educational attainment. Further research on the impact of macroeconomic conditions on alcohol abuse by Dee finds binge drinking to be strongly countercyclical, even among those who remain employed during the crisis. Finally, Dee, David Grabowski and Michael Morrisey investigated the impact of the introduction of 282:(NCLB) - and its emphasis on test-based school accountability - on students, teachers, and schools. In particular, Dee and Jacob find that NCLB improved the math achievements of younger students, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, but failed to do so with regard to reading, raised school district expenditure, in particular on teacher compensation, and improved the quality of teachers, and resulted in a shift of teaching time towards math and reading as tested subjects. 294:, e.g. teenage smoking and drinking, sexual activity, and traffic accidents. Analysing how teen drinking and youth traffic fatalities respond to beer taxes, Dee finds that - while results vary substantially between U.S. states - beer taxes are generally ineffective in reducing teen drinking and associated traffic fatalities. In another study on teen drinking, Dee finds teen drinking and smoking to be complementary behaviours, with the increase in minimum 225:'s Career Ladder Evaluation System, which rewarded teachers who increased student achievement, together with Benjamin J. Keys, he finds that the test scores in mathematics of students assigned to career-ladder teachers were 3 percentile points higher than otherwise, but that such an assignment had no significant impact on reading scores. By contrast, his evaluation of IMPACT, the high-powered teacher-evaluation system introduced by 266:, which provides a strong argument for the recruitment of teachers from underrepresented minorities. This research is complemented by Dee's study of the impact of being taught by a teacher of the same gender, which he finds to significantly improve the achievements of both male and female students as well as teachers' perceptions of student performance and engagement. 237:
finds that dismissal threats increased the voluntary attrition of low-performing teachers and improved the performance of remaining teachers, while financial incentives were effective in further improving the performance of high-performing teachers. Additionally, Dee has pioneered research on the
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Throughout his academic career, Dee has studied many topics related to education and education policy, e.g. competition between private and public schools, returns to education, and teacher incentives. Analysing the relationship between public school quality and the effect of competition from
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as professor of education in 2012. From 2015 to 2018, Dee directed the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) and served as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the
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and newspaper readership (a measure of civic knowledge). With regard to the effectiveness of teacher incentives, Dee finds mixed evidence. In his evaluation of
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as research professor of education and professor of public policy and economics (2010–12), before further moving to
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Analysing the impact on students' school achievement of being taught by a teacher of the same ethnic group in
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Profile of Thomas Dee at the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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in 1994 and 1997. After his graduation, Dee worked as an assistant professor of economics at the
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impact of demographic similarity between students and teachers as well as on the impact of
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Thomas Dee's current research interests mostly revolve around education, including the
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Webpage of Thomas Dee on the website of Stanford University. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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Curriculum vitae of Thomas S. Dee (Status: March 2016). Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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Curriculum vitae of Thomas S. Dee (Status: March 2016). Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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The other main area besides education on which Dee has conducted research is
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Ranking of economists registered on IDEAS/RePEc. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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and attitudes, Dee argues that educational attainment strongly increases
340: 154:. In terms of editorial duties, Dee sits on the editorial boards of the 644:"The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Students, Teachers, and Schools" 362: 678: 495: 480:"Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT" 464: 329: 142:, and the China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research at 71: 851: 511:"Teachers, Race, and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment" 820: 873:
Dee, Thomas S.; Grabowski, David C.; Morrisey, Michael A. (2005).
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The impact of demographic similarity between teachers and students
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Dee, Thomas S.; Jacob, Brian; Schwartz, Nathaniel L. (2013).
542:"A Teacher Like Me: Does Race, Ethnicity, or Gender Matter?" 663:"The impact of no Child Left Behind on student achievement" 47: 915: 278:, Thomas Dee has extensively researched the impact of the 875:"Graduated driver licensing and teen traffic fatalities" 341:
Profile of Thomas Dee at NBER. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
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(2010). 478:Dee, Thomas S.; Wyckoff, James (2015). 418:"Are there civic returns to education?" 311: 515:The Review of Economics and Statistics 242:, the flagship education programme of 661:Dee, Thomas S.; Jacob, Brian (2011). 648:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 188:, school finance, school reform, and 184:, the analysis and implementation of 120:Stanford Graduate School of Education 64:Barnett Family Professor of Education 7: 961:University System of Maryland alumni 124:National Bureau of Economic Research 270:The impact of No Child Left Behind 14: 931:21st-century American economists 916:Webpage of Thomas Dee on GitHub 152:Institute of Education Sciences 108:Georgia Institute of Technology 891:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2004.09.013 19:For the Utah businessman, see 1: 782:10.1016/S0167-6296(99)00018-1 751:10.1016/S0047-2727(98)00093-0 434:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2003.11.002 403:10.1016/S0272-7757(97)00040-X 391:Economics of Education Review 140:American Enterprise Institute 86:in economics with a focus on 166:and has sat on the board of 70:, where he also directs the 951:Stanford University faculty 879:Journal of Health Economics 770:Journal of Health Economics 739:Journal of Public Economics 422:Journal of Public Economics 977: 941:American health economists 809:Journal of Labor Economics 577:Journal of Human Resources 558:10.1257/000282805774670446 527:10.1162/003465304323023750 300:graduated driver licensing 18: 956:Swarthmore College alumni 720:10.3102/0162373712467080 546:American Economic Review 280:No Child Left Behind Act 94:in 1990, followed by an 48:https://dee.stanford.edu 834:Dee, Thomas S. 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Thomas Duncombe Dee
https://dee.stanford.edu
economist
Barnett Family Professor of Education
Stanford University
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
B.A.
public policy
Swarthmore College
M.A.
Ph.D.
University of Maryland
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Virginia
Stanford University
Stanford Graduate School of Education
National Bureau of Economic Research
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
CESifo
Danish National Center for Social Research
American Enterprise Institute
Central University of Finance and Economics
Association for Education Finance and Policy
Institute of Education Sciences
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Educational Researcher
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
economics of education
educational policy
high-stakes testing

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