[4] She has done research in the areas of employment and unemployment policy, immigration, wage inequality, transition economics, crime and corruption.

[5] Her past research focused on immigration and innovation in the United States, the U.S. science and engineering workforce, and the 2008-2009 recession in Germany.

(with coauthor Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle) won the American Economic Journal Best Paper in Macroeconomics Prize in 2013.

[18] Hunt was honored in 2012 as the keynote speaker at Verein für Socialpolitik annual conference, Göttingen.

She was also keynote speaker at INSIDE third annual immigration conference, Barcelona, 2009, and Innis Lecturer at the Canadian Economics Association Meetings, 2004.