Harriet Orcutt Duleep


Harriet Orcutt Duleep is a Research Professor with The Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy of the College of William and Mary. She was a daughter of economist Guy Orcutt and is sister to economist Alice Nakamura.

Research

Duleep's dozens of published papers have included such topics as immigration, mortality, and women's labor force behavior. She is an expert on immigration to the United States, and has published many studies on the impact of immigration on the Social Security System.
Her work has shown that improving wages for Asian Americans in the United States in the 20th Century were due to the easing of employer prejudices. She has written and spoken about the importance of family-linked immigration for economic growth in the United States.

Selected works