Browsing AURA by Author "Gonzales Martinez, Rolando"
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Bifurcations in business profitability : An agent-based simulation of homophily in self-financing groups
Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; Mersland, Roy; D'Espallier, Bert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Formal financial institutions inadequately distribute startup capital to business ventures of ethnic minorities, women, low-educated, and young people. Self-financing groups fill this gap because in these associations ... -
Can Women’s Self-help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; Dang, Hai-Anh H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
Environmental risk factors of airborne viral transmission: Humidity, Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in the Netherlands
Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; Ravelli, Edsard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Objective: The relationship between specific humidity and influenza/SARS-CoV-2 in the Netherlands is evaluated over time and at regional level. Design: Parametric and non-parametric correlation coefficients are calculated ... -
How good is good? Bayesian machine-learning estimation of probabilistic benchmarks in noisy datasets and an application to nanofinance+
Gonzales Martinez, Rolando (Journal article, 2022)Benchmarks are reference standards that are calculated using key performance indicators (KPIs). Calculating benchmarks in noisy datasets is challenging because noise in KPIs reduces the accuracy and precision of benchmarks. ... -
Inflation shocks and income inequality: An analysis with genetic algorithms and Bayesian quantile regressions
Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; Rojas-Hosse, Andrea (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019) -
The interaction effect of gender and ethnicity in loan approval : A Bayesian estimation with data from a laboratory field experiment
Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; Aguilera-Lizarazu, Gabriela; Rojas-Hosse, Andrea; Aranda Blanco, Patricia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Microfinance targets women and uses loan provision as a tool for empowerment, which translates into better household nutrition, improved education, and a scale down of domestic violence. However, ethnic discrimination in ... -
The Wage Curve, Once More with Feeling: Bayesian Model Averaging of Heckit Models
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Which social program supports sustainable grass-root finance? Machine-learning evidence
Gonzales Martinez, Rolando (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Resources for development are used efficiently when social programs help to promote at the same time the sustainability of grass-root financial associations at the bottom of the pyramid. This study applies machine-learning ... -
Work-related and personal predictors of COVID-19 transmission: Evidence from the UK and USA
Anand, Paul; Allen, Heidi L; Ferrer, Robert L; Gold, Natalie; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; Kontopantelis, Evangelos; Krause, Melanie; Vergunst, Francis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objective To develop evidence of work-related and personal predictors of COVID-19 transmission. Setting and respondents Data are drawn from a population survey of individuals in the USA and UK conducted in June 2020. ...