Erin Huffer

PEAR Fellow

Erin Huffer is a PhD student in economics and education at Teachers College. She studies the long-term effects of public investments in education, particularly whether early learning environments affect students’ educational and labor market choices in the future.

Huffer holds a BA in economics and public policy from Dartmouth College. Before graduate school, she worked as a research assistant at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, where she studied various topics related to fiscal federalism, including the intersection of state, local, and federal tax and spending programs.