Henry Stuart Farber (born January 29, 1951[1]) is an American economist and the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
[4] After graduating from Princeton University in 1977, Henry Farber joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an assistant professor of economics, being promoted to associate professor in 1981 and gaining full professorship in 1986.
Farber then left MIT 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 Research, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
[5] 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.