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]
- Duleep, Harriet Orcutt, and Mark C. Regets. "Immigrants and human-capital investment." American Economic Review 89, no. 2 (1999): 186–191.
- Duleep, Harriet Orcutt. "Measuring the effect of income on adult mortality using longitudinal administrative record data." Journal of Human Resources (1986): 238–251.
- Duleep, Harriet Orcutt, and Seth Sanders. "The decision to work by married immigrant women." ILR Review 46, no. 4 (1993): 677–690.
- Duleep, Harriet Orcutt. "Measuring socioeconomic mortality differentials over time." Demography 26, no. 2 (1989): 345–351.
- Duleep, Harriet Orcutt, and Mark C. Regets. "Measuring immigrant wage growth using matched CPS files." Demography 34, no. 2 (1997): 239–249.