Henry Farber is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and a Research Associate of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. Professor Farber graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 1972) the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, (M.S., 1974) and Princeton University (Ph.D., 1977). In addition to his position at Princeton, Farber is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 1991, Farber was Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977-91). He has also been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (1983-84, 1989-90) and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2002-2003).

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2006.