Kalena Cortes
@kalenacortes
Kruse ’52 Founders Professor & Director Program in Ed Policy (pep.tamu.edu) @TAMU's @BushSchool. Research Associate @nberpubs. Research Fellow @iza_bonn.
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A new study found that Black and Hispanic students and those in low-income families who lived more than 30 miles from a public two-year college were significantly less likely to attend college. edsurge.com/news/2024-10-2… Riley Acton @edsurge
🚨New Annenberg Institute at Brown Working Paper: Testing (Katharine Meyer Lindsay Page) two randomization strategies in a large-enrollment, in-person college course we found minimal contamination risk with individual-level randomization Available here: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1083
Thurs 8:30-10:00am (Chesapeake 6): My coauthor Riley Acton will present our work with Kalena Cortes and Camila Morales about how the impacts of college proximity on enrollment and degree completion differ by race/SES
Sat 1:00-2:45pm: Rewind of the APPAM panel "Building Human Capital in Underserved Populations" where I will present my joint work with Riley Acton Kalena Cortes and Camila Morales
Very excited to be headed to #APPAM2024 to present joint work with Miranda Lambert , Kalena Cortes , and Brian Holzman !
Brian Holzman will share insights on the patterns and mechanisms of parent-child engagement in Texts4Teens—a text messaging program designed to motivate middle school parents and strengthen parent-child relationships
First time talking to a reporter about my research ✅ Thanks so much to Lexi Lonas Cochran for the coverage, and to my coauthor Riley Acton for passing this one off to me to talk about our work with Kalena Cortes and Camila Morales 😊 thehill.com/homenews/educa…
Excited to team up w/ SDSU ECON for a stellar Spring ’25 Seminar Series ft. Anne M. Burton, David Figlio, Melanie Wasserman, Chad Cotti, Philipp Barteska, Lisa Kahn, Andy Garin, Kalena Cortes, @BigOrangeEcon, @MeeraMahadevan, Osea Giuntella, Maria Zhu, Cody Tuttle & John Cawley!
Los niños de jardín de infantes que se benefician de tutores a tiempo parcial en el aula con ráfagas de instrucción personalizada tienen + de 2x de chances de alcanzar los objetivos de lectura. Kalena Cortes, Karen Kortecamp, Susanna Loeb y Carly Robinson. nber.org/papers/w32039
✨ #IZAdventCalendar 1⃣9⃣ 🎁 Today's insight: Living in a "community college desert" hinders enrollment and degree completion, especially for low-income and underrepresented minority students. Study by Riley Acton Kalena Cortes Lois Miller Camila Morales newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/res…
Very excited to be in San Francisco for #ASSA2025! Can’t wait to present my joint work with Miranda Lambert, Kalena Cortes, and Brian Holzman tomorrow at 12:30 at the Hilton in Union Square 21!
Geographic access to colleges shapes degree outcomes. Students in community college deserts face disparities while White students pivot to 4-year colleges and Black/Hispanic students often forgo college, from Riley Acton, Kalena Cortes, @Lois-Miller, and Camila Morales
My work with Kalena Cortes on “The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation” has been cited in the 2025 Economic Report of the President whitehouse.gov/cea/written-ma…
Honored to be one of the recipients of the 2025 Brown University Postdoctoral Excellence Awards! Huge thanks to @OUPA_Brown for this recognition and to Lindsay Page and Annenberg Institute at Brown for their support in advancing my research! ¡Seguimos!
In Palo Alto for a quick visit/talk, and so glad I was able to see Kalena Cortes (despite flight cancellations and rescheduling)
