Her most cited paper,[14] "Resistance to reform: Status quo bias in the presence of individual-specific uncertainty"[15] with Dani Rodrik asks why politicians rarely adopt optimal policies as recommended by economists. The paper shows that policymakers have a bias for the status quo. The paper was later the object of a comment paper in 2003 by Antonio Ciccone.[16]
Fernandez, Raquel; Rodrik, Dani (1991). "Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual- Specific Uncertainty". The American Economic Review. 81 (5): 1146–1155. ISSN 0002-8282
Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia (2004-11-01). "Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 119 (4): 1249–1299.
Fernández, Raquel; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John (2005-02-01). "Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 120 (1): 273–344.
Fernández, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard (1998). "Public Education and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Quantitative Evaluation of Education-Finance Reform". The American Economic Review. 88 (4): 813–833. ISSN 0002-8282.
Fernández, Raquel (2013). "Cultural Change as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century". American Economic Review. 103 (1): 472–500. doi:10.1257/aer.103.1.472. ISSN 0002-8282.
Fernandez, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard (1995-04-01). "On the Political Economy of Education Subsidies". The Review of Economic Studies. 62 (2): 249–262. doi:10.2307/2297804. ISSN 0034-6527.
^Fernandez, R.; Fogli, A.; Olivetti, C. (2004-11-01). "Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 119 (4): 1249–1299. doi:10.1162/0033553042476224. ISSN0033-5533. S2CID154152785.
^Fernandez, Raquel; Rodrik, Dani (1991). "Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual- Specific Uncertainty". The American Economic Review. 81 (5): 1146–1155. ISSN0002-8282. JSTOR2006910.