Rao, Aliya Hamid. 2022. "Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions." American Sociological Review, 87(6), 1094–1120
Rao, Aliya Hamid. 2021. "Gendered Interpretations of Job Loss and Subsequent Professional Pathways." Gender and Society 35 (6): 884-909
Lareau, Annette and Aliya Hamid Rao. “Intensive family observations: a methodological guide.” Sociological Methods and Research. Online First
Rao, Aliya Hamid. 2020. “From professionals to professional mothers?: how college-educated, married mothers experience unemployment in the US.” Work, Employment and Society 34 (2): 299-316.
Wynn, Alison and Aliya Hamid Rao. 2020. “Failures of flexibility: how perceived control motivates the individualization of work-life conflict.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 73 (1): 61-90.
Rao, Aliya Hamid and Megan Tobias Neely. 2019. “What’s love got to do with it?: Passion and inequality at work.” (Equal authorship). Sociology Compass 13(12).
Rao, Aliya Hamid. 2017. “‘You don’t dare plan much’: contract work and personal life for international early-career professionals.” Research in the Sociology of Work 31: 429-453.
Rao, Aliya Hamid. 2017. “Stand by your man: wives’ emotion work during men’sunemployment.” Journal of Marriage and Family 79(3): 636-656.
Rao, Aliya Hamid. 2015. “Gender and cultivating the moral self in Islam: Muslim converts in an American mosque.” Sociology of Religion 76(4): 413-435.