Henry Stuart Farber is an American economist and currently the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
Education
Henry Farber obtained a Bachelor of Science in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1972, a Master of Science in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University in 1974, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1977. Farber has stated that he became in labor economics because he was interested in studying the behavior of labor union and effects thereof.
Career
His research revolves around different topics related to labor economics, econometrics, law and economics, and industrial relations. Henry Farber obtained a Bachelor of Science in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1972, a Master of Science After graduating from Princeton University in 1977, Henry Farber joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as an assistant professor of economics, being promoted to associate professor in 1981 and finally gaining full professorship in 1986.
Farber then left Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 in order to return to Princeton University as a professor of economics before being endowed with the Hughes-Rogers professorship in 1995.
Additionally, Farber has had affiliations with a number of institutions throughout his career, including the National Bureau of Economic, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Last, Farber has acted in different editorial functions at research publications in economics such as the Economic Policy Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, American Economic Review, and Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Farber"s research interests focus on unemployment, liquidity constraints and labor supply, labor unions, worker mobility, wage dynamics, and the analysis of the litigation process. American Economic Association American Law and Economics Association American Statistical Association Society of Labor Economists (Fellow) Econometric Society (Fellow).
Membership
American Economic Association
American Law and Economics Association
American Statistical Association
Society of Labor Economists (Fellow)
Econometric Society (Fellow).