My work aims to understand migration and location choices of people under constraints, both positive (driven by central policy choices) and normative (from fairness principles). I will join Boston College as an Assistant Professor after two postdocs at the Stanford King Center and at the Yale EGC — [CV].

Work in progress

“Upgrade or Migrate: The Consequences of Input Subsidies on Household Labor Allocation”
Paper | Twitter thread | Mastodon thread

“The Productivity and Allocation of Labor across Ghana’s Health Facilities”
BZ Diop, K Awoonor-Williams, H Ismaila, A Ofosu, MJ Williams

“An experimental task to elicit preferences over definitions of algorithmic fairness”
BZ Diop, A Panin, M Cissé

Publication

“The relatively young and rural population may limit the spread and severity of Covid-19 in Africa: a modelling study” (2020), BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002699 [paper]
BZ Diop, M Ngom, C Pougué Biyong, JN Pougué Biyong

Comparison between predictions and actual COVID19 progressions (click to uncover)

Predictions of the model:

The actual progression of infections:

Policy Reports (Pre-PhD)

“Using Behavioral Science to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes” [paper]
B Cooke, BZ Diop, A Fishbane, J Hayes, A Ouss, AK Shah