Delia Furtado is a Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. Since earning her Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University, she has published extensively in the field of immigration in journals such as the Journal of Human Resources, American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), European Economic Review, and Demography.

Interested in the ways in which social interactions affect behaviors, Delia Furtado has studied topics that range from the causes and consequences of immigrant intermarriage to the role of culture in explaining divorce rates. She has also examined how low-skilled immigration impacts fertility and labor supply decisions of high skilled natives and the role of work norms and networks in explaining disability insurance take-up among immigrants. She has some work examining how restrictions on the number of H-1B visas affect career choices of international students studying in the United States. She also has several projects considering how immigrants help natives care for an aging population, both in nursing homes and in their own homes.