Cultivating collaboration through joint participation: Evidence from a video-based nutrition-sensitive agricultural extension program in Ethiopia.
Friedson-Ridenour, Sophia, Rachael S. Pierotti, Emily Springer, and Alemgena Gebreyohannes. 2025. Food Policy 134: 102883. [article] [working paper]
Assessing Admiration for Women Who Do ‘Men’s Work.’
Pike, Isabel, Rachael S. Pierotti, and Mame Soukeye Mbaye. 2024. Social Forces, 102(4):1467-1483. [article] [policy brief]
Resilience, Vulnerability, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Poverty Reduction in War.
Lake, Milli, Rachael S. Pierotti, and Arthur Alik-Lagrange. 2023. International Studies Quarterly 67(4). [article]
Reason-Giving for Resistance: Obfuscation, Justification, and Earmarking in Resisting Informal Financial Assistance.
McNeill, Kristen, and Rachael S. Pierotti. 2023. Socio-Economic Review 21(1):159-181. [article]
Women farm what they can manage: How time constraints affect the quantity and quality of labor for married women’s agricultural production in southwestern Nigeria.
Pierotti, Rachael S., Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, and Olubukola Olayiwola. 2022. World Development 152:105800. [article] [policy brief]
Competing Priorities: Women’s Microenterprises and Household Relationships.
Friedson-Ridenour, Sophia and Rachael S. Pierotti. 2019. World Development 121:53-62. [article] [policy brief]
Preparing for Constructive Engagement with Men’s Resistance to Gender Equality Messaging: Lessons from an Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Lewis, Chloé, Rachael S. Pierotti, Alfred Banga Lumpali, Ghislain Cimanuka, and Jean de Dieu Hategekimana. 2025. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-20. [article]
Prevention, Cessation, or Harm Reduction: Heterogeneous effects of an intimate partner violence prevention program in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Gurbuz Cuneo, Alev, Julia Vaillant, Estelle Koussoubé, Rachael S. Pierotti, Kathryn Falb, and Rocky Kabeya. 2023. PLoS ONE 18(3): e0282339. [article] [policy brief]
Engaging men to transform inequitable gender attitudes and prevent intimate partner violence: a cluster randomized controlled trial in North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Vaillant, Julia, Estelle Koussoubé, Danielle Roth, Rachael S. Pierotti, Mazeda Hossain, and Kathryn Falb. 2020. BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002223. [article] [policy brief]
Equality on His Terms: Doing and Undoing Gender through Men’s Discussion Groups.
Pierotti, Rachael S., Milli Lake, and Chloé Lewis. 2018. Gender & Society 32(4):540-562. [article] [open access preprint]
Increasing Rejection of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence of Global Cultural Diffusion.
Pierotti, Rachael S. 2013. American Sociological Review 78(2):240-265. [article]
More than Measurement Error: Discrepant Reporting of Contraceptive Use and the Role of Wives’ and Husbands’ Educational Attainment.
Jennings, Elyse and Rachael S. Pierotti. 2023. Studies in Family Planning 54(3):445-465. [article]
The Influence of Wives’ and Husbands’ Fertility Preferences on Progression to Third Parity Births in Nepal, 1997 to 2009.
Jennings, Elyse and Rachael S. Pierotti. 2016. Population Studies 70(1):115-133. [article] [open access preprint]
Developmental Idealism and Cultural Models of the Family in Malawi.
Thornton, Arland, Rachael S. Pierotti, Linda Young De-Marco, and Susan Watkins. 2014. Population Research and Policy Review 33(5):693-716. [article]
Walking the Line: Brokering Humanitarian Identity in Conflict Research
Lewis, Chloé, Alfred Banga, Ghislain Cimanuka, Jean De Dieu Hategekimana, Milli Lake and Rachael S. Pierotti. 2019. Civil Wars 21(2):200-227. [article]
Double Burden, Unequal Ground: Childcare Challenges and Work-Family Conflict for Low-Income Mothers in Urban Burkina Faso.
Gedeon Achi, Fiona, Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, Rachael S. Pierotti, Nathalie Ouangraoua, and Alis Bambara. 2025. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 11150.
Joint Land Titles and Women's Status in Uganda.
Poulin, Michelle, and Rachael S. Pierotti. 2025. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 11241.
The Unintended Impacts of an Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program in Rwanda [policy brief]
Cullen, Claire, Arthur Alik Lagrange, Muthoni Ngatia, Rachael Pierotti, Julia Vaillant. 2025. Gender Innovation Lab Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.
Related publications that I did not author: working paper and Prevention Collaborative learning brief
Engaging Men for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Overview of the Evidence.
Pierotti, Rachael S., Clara Delavallade, and Rajdev Kaur Brar. 2023. Africa Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief, Washington, DC: World Bank.
Addressing Gender-Based Occupational Segregation: Experimental Evidence from the Republic of Congo.
Gassier, Marine, Rachael Pierotti, Lea Rouanet. 2022. Africa Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief, Washington, DC: World Bank.
Intra-Household Dynamics and the Design of Social Protection Programs: The Case of Polygamous Households in North Burkina Faso.
Guilbert, Nathalie, Rachael Pierotti. 2016. Africa Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief, Washington DC: World Bank.
Engaging local leaders to promote adolescent girls’ empowerment: Lessons from the SWEDD program in Cote d’Ivoire. (with Natacha Stevanovic and Hermann Obehi)
Engaging men to promote adolescent girls’ empowerment: Lessons from the SWEDD program in Benin. (with Leva Rouhani)
Why didn’t cash grants boost income among youth in Benin? (with Kristen McNeill and Kassim Assouma)