Selected Publications
I actively publish my work in a variety of refereed scholarly journals. Below is a list of selected peer-reviewed publications. If you would like a copy of an article, please send me an email and I will be happy to send one your way.
For a complete account of my scholarly activity please see my CV.
Mueller, J. T., Baker, R. S., Brooks, M. M. (Forthcoming). The uneven impact of Medicaid expansion on rural and urban Black, Latino/a, and White mortality. Journal of Rural Health.
Mueller, J. T., Heykmatpour, P., Brooks, M. M., Baker, R. S. (2024). Further complications to poverty of place: Daily poverty dynamics across space. Population, Space, and Place, e2769.
Mueller, J. T. (2024). The theory and function of Marxian water rent in the United States. Theory and Society.
McConnell, K., Mueller, J. T., Merdjanoff, A. A., Burow, P. B., Farrell, J. Informal modes of social support among residents of the rural American West during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rural Sociology.
Mueller, J. T., Gasteyer, S. (2023). The ethnically and racially uneven role of water infrastructure spending in rural economic development. Nature Water.
McConnell, K. Mueller, J. T., Merdjanoff, A. A., Burow, P. B., Farrell, J. (2023). Informal modes of social support among residents of the rural American West during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rural Sociology.
Mueller, J. T., Merdjanoff, A., McConnell, K., Burow, P., Farrell, J. (2022). Elevated serious psychological distress, economic disruption, and the COVID-19 pandemic in the nonmetropolitan American West. Preventive Medicine. 155:106919. DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106919
Mueller, J. T., Brooks, M. M., Pacas, J. D. Cost of living variation, nonmetropolitan America, and implications for the Supplemental Poverty Measure. (2022). Population Policy and Policy Review. 155:106919. DOI: 10.1007/s11113-022-09702-w
Mueller, J. T., Santos-Lozada, A. R. (Online First). The 2020 U.S. Census differential privacy method introduces disproportionate discrepancies for rural and non-white populations. Population Research and Policy Review.
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-022-09698-3
Mueller, J. T. (2021). The poverty balancing equation: Expressing poverty of place as a population process. Demography.
Mueller, J. T., Gasteyer, S. (2021). The widespread and unjust drinking water and clean water crisis in the United States. Nature Communications.
Mueller, J. T. (2021). The dual dependency of natural resource rich labor markets in contemporary society. Sociological Theory.
Mueller, J. T. (2021). Defining Dependence: The Natural Resource Community Typology. Rural Sociology. 86(2):260-300.
Mueller, J. T., McConnell, K., Burow, P. B., Pofahl, K., Merdjanoff, A. A., Farrell, J. (2021). Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on rural America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Brooks, M. M., Mueller, J. T., Thiede, B. C. (2020). County reclassifications and Rural-urban mortality disparities in the United States (1970-2018). American Journal of Public Health.
Mueller, J. T., Brooks, M. M. (2020). Burdened by renewable energy? A multi-scalar analysis of distributional injustice and wind energy in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science. Online First. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2019.101406
Mueller, J. T., Park, S., Mowen, A. J. (2019). The relationship between parks and recreation spending and mortality: A fixed effects model. Preventive Medicine Reports. 14:100827.