- Rao, ND, B.V Ruijven, K. Riahi, V. Bosetti (forthcoming). Poverty and inequality modeling in climate research: Need to bridge scales and communities. Nat. Cl Ch.
- Min, J., ND Rao (forthcoming). Estimating uncertainty in household energy footprints: The cases of Brazil and India, J. of Industrial Ecology.
- Mastrucci A & Rao ND (2017). Decent housing in the developing world: Reducing life-cycle energy requirements. Energy and Buildings.
- Rao, ND, J. Min (2017). Decent living standards: material requirements for basic human wellbeing. Social Indicators Research, 1-20.
- Rao, ND, K. Ummel (2017). White goods for white people? Drivers of electric appliance growth in emerging economies. Energy Research and Social Science 27.
- Rao, ND, S. Pachauri (2017). Energy access and living standards: Some observations on recent trends. Environmental Research Letters, 12 (2), 025011.
- Cameron, C., S. Pachauri, ND Rao, D. Mccollum, J. Rogelj, K. Riahi (2016). Policy trade-offs between climate mitigation and clean cook-stove access in South Asia. Nature Energy. Volume 1.
- Lamb, W., ND Rao (2015). Human development in a climate constrained world: what the past says about the future. Global Environmental Change, 33, 14-22.
- Rao, ND, K. Riahi, A. Grubler (2014). Climate Impacts of Poverty Eradication. Nature Climate Change 4, 749–751.