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Agustin Palao Mendizabal

Title: Clinical Assistant Professor

Department: Multidisciplinary Innovation

College: College of Applied and Collaborative Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • MS, University of Texas at Dallas, 2018
    Major: Economics
    Specialization: Econometrics
  • PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, 2017
    Major: Public Policy and Political Economy
    Dissertation: Improving financial access to rural business: An impact evaluation of Guarantee Programs

Current Scheduled Teaching

DSCI 2710.503Data Analysis with SpreadsheetsSpring 2025
DSCI 2710.510Data Analysis with SpreadsheetsSpring 2025
ADAR 4020.520Process Optimization and Prescriptive AnalysisSpring 2025
ADAR 3020.520Inferential AnalysisFall 2024 Syllabus
APMG 4021.501Project Workshop: AdvancedFall 2024 Syllabus
CACS 2020.501Research Design and MethodsFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ACSO 4020.501Process Optimization and Prescriptive AnalysisSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ACSO 4020.520Process Optimization and Prescriptive AnalysisSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
DSCI 2710.510Data Analysis with SpreadsheetsFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ACSO 2020.501Data Design, Analysis and RepresentationSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ACSO 2020.510Data Design, Analysis and RepresentationSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ACSO 4020.520Process Optimization and Prescriptive AnalysisSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
DSCI 2710.501Data Analysis with SpreadsheetsFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
DSCI 2710.510Data Analysis with SpreadsheetsFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
INDS 3000.501Foundations of Science and Technology AnalysisFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ACSO 3020.521Inferential AnalysisFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
DSCI 2710.501Data Analysis with SpreadsheetsSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ACSO 4410.510Introduction to Stochastic ProcessesSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
DSCI 3710.501Business Statistics with SpreadsheetsFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
DSCI 2710.501Data Analysis with SpreadsheetsFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
DSCI 2710.005Data Analysis with SpreadsheetsSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
DSCI 2710.505Data Analysis with SpreadsheetsSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ACSO 4510.511Deterministic Modeling for Operations ResearchSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Palao Mendizabal, A. (2018). Improving financial access to rural business. An impact evaluation of Mexico's credit guarantee programs. Sage Advance Social Sciences and Humanities. https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/preprint/Improving_financial_access_to_rural_business_An_impact_evaluation_of_Mexico_s_credit_guarantee_programs/7293926
  • Journal Article

  • Holmes, J., Palao Mendizabal, A. (2023). Attacking the grid: Lessons from a guerrilla conflict and efforts for peace in Colombia: 1990–2018. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1874548223000343
  • Palao Mendizabal, A., Holmes, J., Callenes, M. Using hotspot analysis to prioritize security efforts in Colombian critical infrastructure, a focus on the power grid. Security Journal. no. 22. Switzerland, Springer. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs41284-021-00300-7#article-info
  • Palao Mendizabal, A., Holmes, J.S., Ortiz, N., Callenes, M., Cardenas, A. (2020). A hotspot analysis of critical hydrocarbons infrastructure in Colombia: ELN (ejército de liberación nacional) and FARC (fuerzas armadas revolucionarias de colombia) attacks on Colombian pipelines. Applied Geography. No. 126 (102376) 14. Elsevier. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622820314752
  • Palao Mendizabal, A. (2020). Mexico’s Credit Guarantee Programs: Shifting Regional Impacts. Investigaciones Geograficas. (101) Mexico, Instituto de Geografia, UNAM. http://www.investigacionesgeograficas.unam.mx/index.php/rig/article/view/59884
  • Palao Mendizabal, A., Holmes, J.S., Callenes, M., Cardenas, \'Alvaro. (2019). Crossing thresholds: The use of spatial analysis to identify intensification of the Colombian conflict. Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 37 (2) 177--187. Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Hoboken, USA. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/crq.21265
  • Holmes, J., Mendizabal, A., Saucedo De La Fuente, D., Callenes, M., Cardenas, A. (2019). Paramilitary violence in Colombia: A multilevel negative binomial analysis. Defence and Peace Economics. No. 32 (2) 193-219. Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10242694.2019.1624067
  • Barreto, C., Cardenas, A., Holmes, J., Mendizabal, A., Restrepo, J. (2019). A business that can’t lose: Investing in attacks against the Colombian power grid. No. 26 (100303) Elsevier. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1874548218301781?via%3Dihub
  • Bagozzi, B.E., Freeman, J., Brandt, P.T., Holmes, J.S., Mendizabal, A., Kim, A., Potz-Nielsen, C. (2018). The prevalence and severity of underreporting bias in machine-and human-coded data. Political Science. No. 7 (3) 641-649. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.11
  • Holmes, J.S., Palao Mendizabal, A., De La Fuente, David Saucedo, Mets, K., C\'ardenas, Alvaro, Armenteras, D., D\'avalos, Liliana M. (2018). Identifying municipal risk factors for leftist guerrilla violence in Colombia. NSF Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP). 24 (2) De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/peps-2017-0009/html
  • Ph.D. Thesis

  • Palao Mendizabal, A. (2017). Mexico's Credit Guarantees Program: Financial Inclusion and the Promotion of Rural Development. Proquest. url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/mexicos-credit-guarantees-program-financial/docview/2100716535/se-2?accountid=7113
  • Technical Report

  • Bagozzi, B.E., Brandt, P.T., Freeman, J.R., Holmes, J.S., Kim, A., Palao Mendizabal, A., Potz-Nielsen, C. (2018). Supplemental Appendix for The Prevalence and Severity of Underreporting Bias in Machine and Human Coded Data. The prevalence and severity of underreporting bias in machine-and human-coded data. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/abs/prevalence-and-severity-of-underreporting-bias-in-machine-and-humancoded-data/E7B648ECA1E52DDAA4BF79CB622F520A#article

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Service

  • Scott-Bracey, P.K. (Principal), Palao Mendizabal, A. (Co-Principal), "UNT Retention Grant," sponsored by UNT Presidents/Provost Office, Local, $7000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
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    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
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    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
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