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Stephen Haber
Director of the Social Science History Institute at Stanford University
Biography
Professor Haber is director of the Social Science History Institute at Stanford University and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, senior fellow of the Center for International Development, and Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
His research focuses on the relationship between political organization and economic growth. Most of this research has focused on Latin America, particularly Mexico and Brazil.
He earned his PhD from the University of California-Los Angeles and has been at Stanford University since 1987.
