Harriet Orcutt Duleep | |
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Born | 1953 (age 70–71) |
Academic career | |
Institutions | College of William and Mary Social Security Administration Urban Institute |
Alma mater | |
Doctoral advisor | Jerry Hausman Lester Thurow |
Harriet Orcutt Duleep (born 1953) is a Research Professor with The Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy of the College of William and Mary.[1] She was a daughter of economist Guy Orcutt and is sister to economist Alice Nakamura.
Duleep's dozens of published papers have included such topics as immigration, mortality, and women's labor force behavior.[2] She is an expert on immigration to the United States,[3] and has published many studies on the impact of immigration on the Social Security System.[4]
Her work (with Seth Sanders) has shown that improving wages for Asian Americans in the United States in the 20th Century were due to the easing of employer prejudices.[5] She has written and spoken about the importance of family-linked immigration for economic growth in the United States.[6][3][7]