Stephen Haber is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also the A. A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford, where he is a professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics (by courtesy).

Haber is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development, and a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

His research focuses on the relationship between political institutions and economic growth. Most of this research has focused on Latin America, particularly Mexico and Brazil.

His publications include Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico,1890–1940 (Stanford University Press, 1989); How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800–1914 (Stanford University Press, 1997); Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America (Hoover Press, 2000); Crony Capitalism and Economic Growth in Latin America (Hoover Press, 2002); The Mexican Economy, 1870–1930:Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth (Stanford University Press, 2002); and The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His two most recent books are Political Institutions and Financial Development, edited with Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (Stanford University Press, 2008), and Mexico since 1980, coauthored with Herbert Klein, Noel Maurer, and Kevin Middlebrook (Cambridge University Press, spring 2008).

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been at Stanford University since 1987.