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Dirgha Ghimire
Funded Research:
Armed Conflict, Family Change and Mental Health (Freedman)
Data Dissemination and Data Analysis Workshop in Nepal (Freedman)
Ideational Influences on Marriage and Childbearing (NICHD)
Innovative Methods for Obtaining Survey Data from Migrants (NICHD)
Marital Processes, Husband-Wife Relationships, and Fertility Behaviors (NICHD)
Reciprocal Relations Between Population and Environment (NICHD)
Small Grant to Enhance Social Science Research Capacity in Nepal (Hermalin)
Associate Research Scientist, Population Studies Center.
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dr. Ghimire studies the relationship among social context, social change, family organization, marriage arrangement, and first birth timing in Nepal. His research also includes the inter-relationship between population and environmental dynamics.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Axinn, William, Dirgha Ghimire, and Nathalie Williams. Forthcoming. "Collecting Survey Data during Armed Conflict." Journal of Official Statistics. NIHMSID: NIHMS351965.
Ghimire, Dirgha, Stephanie Chardoul, Ronald Kessler, William Axinn, and Bishnu Adhikari. Forthcoming. "Modifying and Validating the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) for Use in Nepal." International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. NIHMSID: NIHMS352538.
Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha Ghimire, Arjan Gjonca, Attila Melegh, Colter Mitchell, Mansoor Moaddel, Yu Xie, Li-Shou Yang, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Kathryn Yount. Forthcoming. "Knowledge and Beliefs about National Development and Developmental Hierarchies: the Viewpoints of Ordinary People in Thirteen Countries." Social Science Research. NIHMSID: NIHMS368187. DOI.
Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, Kathryn M. Yount, Mohammad Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha Ghimire, and Yu Xie. 2012. "International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework." Demography, 49(2): 677-698. PMCID: PMC3328099. DOI. Abstract.
Axinn, William, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2011. "Social Organization, Population, and Land Use." American Journal of Sociology, 117(1): 209-258. PMCID: PMC3162250. DOI.
Massey, Douglas, William Axinn, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2010. "Environmental Change and Out-Migration: Evidence from Nepal." Population & Environment, 32(2-3): 109-136. PMCID: PMC3042700. DOI.
Ghimire, Dirgha, and William Axinn. 2010. "Community Context, land use, and first birth." Rural Sociology, 75(2): 478-513. PMCID: PMC2945390. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Massey, D.S., Nathalie Williams, William Axinn, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2010. "Community Services and Out-Migration." International Migration, 48(3): 1-41. PMCID: PMC3146299. DOI. Abstract.
Brauner-Otto, Sarah, William Axinn, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2007. "The spread of health services and fertility transition." Demography, 44(4): 747-770. Abstract. Local Access.
Bhandari, Prem B., S.S. Shrestha, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2007. "Sociocultural and geographical disparities in child immunization in Nepal." Asia-Pacific Population Journal, 22(1): 43-64. Local Access.