Yaya Diallo

About Me

My research focuses on topics in labour economics and applied econometrics.
In my empirical studies, I use large employer-employees dataset to understand markets and firms, gender inequality, and sorting between workers and firms in developed and developing countries.

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Education

2024

Ph.D. in Economics

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2016

Master in Economics

Laval University, Quebec city, Canada

2014

Master in Statistics

ENSAE, Dakar, Sénégal

Experience

2022-

Consultant

Entreprise Surveys - World Bank Group

2018-2020

Research Assistant

Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) - McGill

2017-2023

Lecturer, Teaching Assistant

McGill University

  • Quantitative Methods for Development
  • Labor Economics
  • Development Economics
2013-2014

Research analyst

International Food Policy Research Institute - IFPRI, Dakar, Senegal

Working papers

  • Yaya Diallo and Guy Arnold Djolaud. “Dynamic of labour market concentration: Trajectory of immigrants in Canada”. CLEF Working Paper No. 96, 2026.
    (Paper)
  • Yaya Diallo, Ibrahima Sarr, and Idrissa Diagne. “Labor market inequality: Evidence from a developing country”. PEDL Research Papers. Latest version: 2024.
    (Paper) (Data and Replication Files)
  • Yaya Diallo. “Child penalties: Evidence from Canadian data”. SSRN Working Paper No. 6885016, 2026.
    (Paper) (Data and Replication Files)
  • Ibrahima Sarr, Yaya Diallo, and Idrissa Diagne. “TFP estimation at the firm level: Do fiscal pressure, the legal form, and the local competition matter for firm performance in Senegal”. PEDL Research Papers, 2021.
    (Paper) (Data and Replication Files)

Publications

  • Yaya Diallo, Fabian Lange, and Laetitia Renée. “Can paternity leave reduce the gender earnings gap?”. Accepted at Journal of Labor Economics, 2026.
    (Paper) (Data and Replication Files)
  • Yaya Diallo and Fabian Lange. “Peer effects at work on parental leave: Why is Papa not more involved?”. Canadian Journal of Economics, Volume 59, Issue 3, pp. 905–921, August 2026.
    (Paper) (Data and Replication Files)

Research Projects

Teaching

Labor economics

ECON426, McGill University

As a TA, I use R to help students in manipulating real data, estimating, and testing various labor economics theories, such as the elasticity of labor supply and demand, returns to schooling, the gender wage gap, and investment in human capital.

Introductory Econometrics

ECON 338, McGill University

Introduction to stata using real data to estimate and test economics models.

Economic Development 1

ECON 313, McGill University

Quantitative Methods

INTD 356, McGill University

Contact Me

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Prefer email? mamadou.y.diallo@mail.mcgill.ca

Yaya Diallo