[28] Thombs, Ryan P. 2025. “Does International Trade Drive CO2 Emissions at the U.S. State-Level?” Social Problems.
[27] Willis, Mary, Nina Cesare, Max Harleman, Flannery Black-Ingersoll, Jaimie Gradus, Ryan Thombs, Jonathan, Buonocore, Joan Casey, Danielle Braun, Francesca Dominici, Amruta Nori-Sarma. “Impact of Boom-and-Bust Economies from Oil and Gas Development on Psychiatric Hospitalizations among Medicaid Beneficiaries.” Environmental Research: Health 3(3).
[26] Thombs, Ryan P., Andrew K. Jorgenson, and Brett Clark. 2025. “Reducing U.S. Military
Spending Could Lead to Substantial Decreases in Energy Consumption.” PLOS Climate 4(7).
[25] Jorgenson, Andrew, Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Taekyeong Goh, and Vincentas Giedraitis. 2025. “Militarizing the Climate Crisis: An Analysis of the Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Militarization on Nations’ Carbon Emissions, 1990-2020.” Social Problems.
[24] Thombs, Ryan P., Weimin Zhang, Benjamin K. Sovacool. 2025. “Do Industrial Decarbonization Policies Deliver? A Global Assessment of Policy Effectiveness Across 150 Nations, 1990-2020.” Environmental Research Letters 20(4).
[23] Thombs, Ryan P. 2025. “Does Renewable Energy Production Displace Fossil Fuel Production in the U.S.? A Panel Data Study of Fossil Fuel Producing U.S. States, 1997-2020.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
[22] Jorgenson, Andrew, Taekyeong Goh, Thombs, Ryan P., Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Mark Shakespear, Grace Gletsu, and Nicolas Viens. 2025. “Income Inequality is Driving the Climate Crisis: A longitudinal Analysis of Province-Level Carbon Emissions in Canada, 1997-2020.” Energy Research & Social Science 119.
[21] Jorgenson, Andrew, Taekyeong Goh, Ryan P. Thombs, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Mark Shakespear, Nicolas Viens, and Grace Gletsu. 2024. “Economic Growth and Income Inequality Increase the Carbon Intensity of Human Well-Being for Canada’s Provinces.” npj Climate Action 3(58).
[20] Jorgenson, Andrew K., Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer E. Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, and Matthew C. Mahutga. 2023. “Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions.” American Sociological Review 88(3): 418-453.
[19] Thombs, Ryan P. 2022. “The Asymmetric Effects of Fossil Fuel Dependency on the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being: A U.S. State-Level Analysis, 1999–2019.” Global Environmental Change 77: 1-11.
[18] Thombs, Ryan P. 2022. “A Guide to Analyzing Large N, Large T Panel Data.” Socius 8: 1-15.
[17] Thombs, Ryan P., Xiaorui Huang, and Jared Berry Fitzgerald. 2022. “What Goes Up
Might Not Come Down: Modeling Directional Asymmetry with Large N, Large T Data.” Sociological Methodology 52(1):1-29.
[16] Kelly, Orla, Ryan P. Thombs, and Andrew K. Jorgenson. ”The Unsustainable State: GHG
Emissions, Inequality, and Human Well-Being in the United States, 1913 – 2017.” 2021. Socius 7: 1-14.
[15] Thombs, Ryan P., Dennis L. Thombs, and Colleen A. Mahoney. 2021. “Trade and Health: A Cross-National Study of Global Economic Integration, Smoking Prevalence, and Gender, 2000-2015.” Sociology of Development 7(1): 98-116.
[14] Thombs, Ryan P., Xiaorui Huang, Andrew K. Jorgenson. “It’s About Time: How Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis Techniques Can Enhance Energy and Climate Research.” 2021. Energy Research & Social Science 72.
[13] Thombs, Ryan P. 2021. “In-and-Beyond State Power: How Political Equality Moderates the Economic Growth-CO2 Emissions Relationship, 1990-2014.” The Sociological Quarterly 62(3):528-547.
[12] Jorgenson, Andrew, Ryan P. Thombs, Brett Clark, Jennifer Givens, Terrence Hill, Xiaorui Huang, Orla Kelly, Jared Fitzgerald. “Does Income Inequality Amplify the Negative Association Between Life Expectancy and Ambient Air Pollution? A Cross-National Longitudinal Study.” 2020. Science of the Total Environment 758.
[11] Jorgenson, Andrew, Jared Fitzgerald, Ryan P. Thombs, Terrence Hill, Jennifer Givens, Brett Clark, Juliet Schor, Xiaorui Huang, Orla Kelly, Peter Ore. 2020. “The Multiplicative Impacts of Working Hours and Fine Particulate Matter Concentration on Life Expectancy: A Longitudinal Analysis of US States.“ Environmental Research 191.
[10] Thombs, Ryan P., Dennis L. Thombs, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Taylor Harris Braswell. 2020. “What is Driving the Drug Overdose Epidemic in the United States?” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 61(3): 1-15.
[9] Jorgenson, Andrew, Terrence Hill, Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Peter Ore, Kelly Balistreri, and Jennifer Givens. 2020. “Power, Proximity, and Physiology: Does Income Inequality and Racial Composition Amplify the Impacts of Air Pollution on Life Expectancy in the United States?” Environmental Research Letters 15(2).
[8] Thombs, Ryan P., and Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2020. “The Political Economy of Renewable Portfolio Standards in the United States.” Energy Research & Social Science 62.
[7] Thombs, Ryan P., and Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2019. “Manufacturing the Urban Rift: A Cross-National Study of Urbanization, Manufacturing, and CO2 Emissions, 2000-2013.” Human Ecology Review 25(2): 143-161.
[6] Thombs, Ryan P., and Xiaorui Huang. 2019. “Uneven Decoupling: The Economic Growth/CO2 Emissions Relationship in the Global North, 1870-2014.” Sociology of Development 5(4): 410-427.
[5] Thombs, Ryan P. 2019. “When Democracy Meets Energy Transitions: A Typology of Social Power and Energy System Scale.” Energy Research & Social Science 52: 159-168.
[4] Thombs, Ryan P, and Allen Prindle. 2018. “Ohio LEED Schools and Academic Performance: A Panel Study, 2006-2016.” Sustainability 10(10): 3783.
[3] Thombs, Ryan P. 2018. “Has the Relationship Between Non-Fossil Fuel Energy Sources and CO2 Emissions Changed Over Time? A Cross-National Study, 2000–2013.” Climatic Change 148(4): 481-490.
[2] Thombs, Ryan P. 2018. “The Transnational Tilt of the Treadmill and the Role of Trade Openness on Carbon Emissions: A Comparative International Study, 1965-2010.” Sociological Forum 33(2): 422-444.
[1] Thombs, Ryan P. 2017. “The Paradoxical Relationship Between Renewable Energy and Economic Growth: A Cross-National Panel Study, 1990-2013.” Journal of World-Systems Research 23(2): 540-564.
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