Parisa Mahboubi is a Senior Policy Analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute, where she leads the Institute’s human capital policy program. Her research focuses on social policy, with a particular emphasis on immigration, demographics, skills, education, and labour market issues. She has written extensively on these topics for the Institute, contributing to public policy debates in Canada. In addition to authoring research studies, she regularly contributes op-eds to The Globe and Mail and the Financial Post.
Prior to joining the C.D. Howe Institute in 2016, Parisa worked at the Statistics Canada Research Data Centre, and served as an Instructor and Research Assistant at the University of Guelph while completing her PhD studies.
She holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Economics from Shiraz University in Iran, and a Master of Arts and a PhD in Economics from the University of Guelph. Her PhD research focused on the life cycle analysis of social security reforms as well as investment-specific technology shocks using Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models, with an emphasis on human capital accumulation. She also studies the skills, education, and labour market outcomes of second-generation immigrants in Canada.