Tom is a Meta-Analysis Professor in Deakin Business School. For 31 years, he taught many different courses in economics, statistics, and the humanities at Hendrix College, an elite, nationally recognized, undergraduate teaching university. In spite of his heavy teaching load of 6 or 7 different courses per year, his pioneering work on meta-analysis has received wide acclaim, with nearly all meta-analyses of economics research using the methods and the research framework developed and introduced in his papers. In particular, Stanley and Jarrell (Journal of Economic Surveys, 1989) was the first paper on meta-analysis in economics, introducing a new empirical review and assessment methodology, meta-regression analysis, specifically designed to evaluate econometric research findings. This paper along with meta-regression analysis, in general, was chosen by the editors of the Journal of Economic Survey in 2011 as one of the four most important developments in economics over the last quarter century. His paper, “Wheat from chaff: Meta-analysis as quantitative literature review,” published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (a leading American Economic Association journal) in 2001, has become the standard reference in the field of meta-regression with 854 citations.