Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Biography
Dr. Ghimire is a social demographer– a Research Professor with the Population Studies Center and a Faculty Associate with the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. He holds a joint appointment as Executive Director at the Institute for Social and Environmental Research (ISER) in Chitwan, Nepal. 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 interplay between social change, family, public health, and environment dynamics.
Funded Research
Publications
- Sauharda Rai, Rubina Awale, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Deepa Rao. 2023. Pathways of association between husbands? migration and mental health of their wives who stay behind. SSM - Mental Health :100186.
- William G Axinn, Banchoff,Emma, Cole,Faith, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Jordan W. Smoller. 2022. The transition to parenthood, opportunity to drink, drinking, and alcohol use disorder. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 241:109697.
- Sabrina Hermosilla, Emily Treleaven, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2022. Migration and Health in Nepal. Migration and Health :297-306.
- Epstein, Adrienne, Emily Treleaven, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Diamond-Smith, Nadia. 2022. Drought and migration: an analysis of the effects of drought on temporary labor and return migration from a migrant-sending area in Nepal. Population and Environment
- Bahadur K.C. Govinda, Devkota Durga, Devkota Naba Raj, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Tiwari Ujjal. 2022. Household members? migration and rice productivity. Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research 11(6):50-63.
- Melanie S. Askari, Emily Treleaven, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn, Sabrina Hermosilla. 2022. COVID-19 worries, concerns and mitigation behaviours: A snapshot of Nepal during the first wave. Tropical Medicine & International Health 27(2):165-173.
- William G Axinn, Karmel W. Choi, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Cole,Faith, Hermosilla,Sabrina, Corina Benjet, Melany C. Morgenstern, Younga H. Lee, Jordan W. Smoller. 2022. Community-Level Social Support Infrastructure and Adult Onset of Major Depressive Disorder in a South Asian Postconflict Setting. JAMA Psychiatry 79(3):243-249.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Banchoff,Emma, Cole,Faith, William G Axinn. 2022. The transition to parenthood, opportunity to drink, drinking, and alcohol use disorder. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 241:109697.
- Hermosilla,Sabrina, Karmel W. Choi, Askari,Melanie, Taylor Marks, Christy Denckla, William G Axinn, Jordan W. Smoller, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Corina Benjet. 2022. What can we learn about polytrauma typologies by comparing population-representative to trauma-exposed samples: A Nepali example. Journal of Affective Disorders 314:201-210.
- Narayan Sastry, William G Axinn, Julie Ann Josefosky de Jong, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Emily Treleaven. 2021. Assessing the Opportunities and Challenges in the Transition to Computer-Based Survey Data Collection: The Role of Key Software System Features. Report to the World Bank
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn, Bhandari,Prem. 2021. Social change, out-migration, and exit from farming in Nepal. Population and Environment 42:302-324.
- SarahBrauner-Otto, Sarah Baird, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2021. Womenâs employment and Childrenâs education: Longitudinal evidence from Nepal. Social Science Research 103:102669.
- Keera Allendorf, Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Linda C Young-Demarco, Colter Mitchell. 2021. A Good Age to Marry? An Intergenerational Model of the Influence of Timing Attitudes on Entrance into Marriage. European Journal of Population 37:179-209.
- Cole,Faith, Corina Benjet, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn. 2021. Predictors of transitions across stages of alcohol use and disorders in an adult population with heterogeneous ethnic restrictions regarding drinking. Addiction 116(4):809-818.
- William G Axinn, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2020. Parents' Marital Quality and Children's Transition to Adulthood. Demography 57(1):195-220. PMCID: PMCID: PMC7056585.
- William G Axinn, Stephanie A Chardoul, Heather Gatny, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Smoller, Jordan W, Zhang, Yang , Scott, Kate M. 2020. Using life history calendars to improve measurement of lifetime experience with mental disorders. Psychological Medicine 50(3):515-522. PMCID: PMCID: PMC6739186.
- Kate M. Scott, Zhang, Yang, Stephanie A Chardoul, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Jordan W. Smoller, William G Axinn. 2020. Resilience to mental disorders in a low-income, non-Westernized setting. Psychological Medicine 51(16):2825-2834.
- Corina Benjet, William G Axinn, Hermosilla,Sabrina, Schulz,Paul Chapin, Cole,Faith, Laura Sampson, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2020. Exposure to Armed Conflict in Childhood vs Older Ages and Subsequent Onset of Major Depressive Disorder. JAMA Network Open 3(11):e2019848-e2019848.
- Sarah R. Brauner-Otto, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2020. Parentsâ Marital Quality and Childrenâs Transition to Adulthood. Demography 57:195-220.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Stephanie A Chardoul, Zhang, Yang , Scott, Kate M, Bruffaerts, Ronny . 2020. The Association between Marital Transitions and the Onset of Major Depressive Disorder in a South Asian General Population. Journal of Affective Disorders 266
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Brauner-Otto, Sarah , Baird, Sarah . 2019. Maternal employment and child health in Nepal: The importance of job type and timing across the child's first five years. Social Science & Medicine 224:94-105.
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Linda C Young-Demarco, Bhandari, Prem. 2019. The Reliability and Stability of Measures of Individuals’ Values and Beliefs Concerning Developmental Idealism in Nepal. Sociology of Development 5(3):314-336.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Williams, Nathalie E, Arland Thornton, Linda C Young-Demarco, Bhandari, Prem B.. 2019. Strategies for origin-based surveying of international migrants. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45(7):1185-1206. PMCID: PMC6481943.
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Linda C Young-Demarco, Bhandari, Prem B.. 2019. The Reliability and Stability of Measures of Individuals' Values and Beliefs Concerning Developmental Idealism in Nepal. Sociology of Development 5(3):314-336.
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Linda C Young-Demarco, Private: Bhandari,Prem. 2019. The Reliability and Stability of Measures of Individualsâ Values and Beliefs Concerning Developmental Idealism in Nepal. Sociology of Development 5(3):314-336.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Bhandari, Prem B., Jones, Andrew D., Acharya, Yubraj , Ghimire, Ramesh . 2019. Household migration and children's diet in Nepal: an exploratory study. BMC Research Notes 12(1):390.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Williams, Nathalie . 2018. Mixed methods in a comparative context: Technology and new opportunities for social science research. Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC)
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Snedker, Karen A. 2018. Fear of violence during armed conflict: Social roles and responsibilities as determinants of fear. Social Science Research 71:145-159. PMCID: PMC5846491.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Glick, Jennifer , Wentz, Elizabeth , Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Zhao, Qunshan . 2017. Comparing Paper and Tablet Modes of Retrospective Activity Space Data Collection. Survey Research Methods 11(3):329-344. PMCID: PMC5881931.
- Arland Thornton, Arland Thornton, Colter Mitchell, Linda C Young-Demarco, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2017. Early Women, Late Men: Timing Attitudes and Gender Differences in Marriage. Journal of Marriage and Family 79(5):1478-1496. PMCID: PMC5679473.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Smith-Greenaway, Emily. 2017. Emotional Variation and Fertility Behavior. Demography 54(2):437-458. PMCID: PMC5426117.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Pearce, Lisa D, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Bhandari, Prem B., Hargrove, Taylor . 2017. Postmarital Living Arrangements in Historically Patrilocal Settings: Integrating Household Fission and Migration Perspectives. Demography 54(4):1425-1449. PMCID: PMC5856169.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2017. Social context of first birth timing in a rapidly changing rural setting. Social Science Research 61:314-329. PMCID: PMC5125526.
- William G Axinn, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2016. Ethnicity and Psychiatric Disorders. Annals of Psychiatry and Mental Health 4(4):1072. PMCID: PMC5560443.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2016. Rural Agricultural Change and Individual Out-migration. Rural Sociology 81(4):572-600. PMCID: PMC5220587.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Williams, N E, Scott, K M. 2015. Associations between the social organization of communities and psychiatric disorders in rural Asia. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 50(10):1537-145.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2015. Impact of the Spread of Mass Education on Married Women’s Experience with Domestic Violence. Impact of the Spread of Mass Education on Married Women’s Experience with Domestic Violence 54:319-331.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2015. Wives’ and Husbands’ Nonfamily Experiences and First-Birth Timing. Wives’ and Husbands’ Nonfamily Experiences and First-Birth Timing 45(1):4-23.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2015. Associations between the Social Organization of Communities and Psychiatric Disorders in Rural Asia.. Associations between the Social Organization of Communities and Psychiatric Disorders in Rural Asia. 50:1537-1545.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2015. Wives' and Husbands' Nonfamily Experiences and First-Birth Timing. International Journal of Sociology 45(1):4-23. PMCID: PMC4587386.
- Brady Thomas West, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn. 2015. Evaluating a Modular Design Approach to Collecting Survey Data Using Text Messages. Survey Research Methods 9(2):111-123.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn, Emily Smith-Greenaway. 2015. Impact of the spread of mass education on married womenâs experience with domestic violence. Social science research 54:319-331. PMCID: PMC4607934.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn, Smith-Greenaway, Emily. 2015. Impact of the spread of mass education on married women's experience with domestic violence. Social Science Research 54:319-331. PMCID: PMC4607934.
- Mneimneh, Zeina Nazih, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Cibelli, K , Al-Kaisy, M . 2014. Conducting Surveys in Areas of Armed Conflict. Hard-to-Survey Populations :134-156.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Hull, Vanessa , McConnell, William, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Liu, Jianguo . 2014. Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation. Ecology and Society 19:43.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn. 2013. Marital processes, arranged marriage, and contraception to limit fertility. Demography 50(5):1663-1686.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Williams, Nathalie E, Scott, Kate M. 2013. Gender, Traumatic Events, and Mental Health Disorders in a Rural Asian Setting. Journal of health and social behavior 54(4):444-461.
- Arland Thornton, Arland Thornton, Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Xie, Yu, Yount, Kathryn M. 2013. Influences on the knowledge and beliefs of ordinary people about developmental hierarchies. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 54(4):325-344. PMCID: PMC3952150.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2013. Determinants of marital quality in an arranged marriage society. Social Science Research 42(1):59-70. PMCID: PMC3711098.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2013. Rural Agricultural Change and Fertility Transition in Nepal. Rural Sociology 78(2):229-252. PMCID: PMC3667159.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Rindfuss, Ronald . 2013. Farming Systems and Rural Out-Migration in Nang Rong, Thailand, and Chitwan Valley, Nepal. Rural Sociology 78(1):75-108. PMCID: PMC3963478.
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Colter Mitchell. 2013. The measurement and prevalence of an ideational model of family and economic development in Nepal. Population Studies 66(3):329-345. PMCID: PMC3505987.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Stephanie A Chardoul, Kessler,Ronald C, William G Axinn, Adhikari, B P. 2013. Modifying and validating the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) for use in Nepal.. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 22(1):71-81.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Williams, Natalie . 2012. Collecting Survey Data During Armed Conflict. Journal of Official Statistics 28(2):153-171.
- William G Axinn, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2012. The Effect of Parents' Attitudes on Sons' Marriage Timing. American Sociological Review 77(6):923-945. PMCID: PMC3590910.
- William G Axinn, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2012. Household energy consumption: Community context and the fuelwood transition. Social Science Research 41(3):598. PMCID: PMC3461177.
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Colter Mitchell, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Gjonca, Arjan , Melegh, Attila , Colter Mitchell, Moaddell, Mansoor , Xie, Yu, Yang, Li-Shou, Linda C Young-Demarco, Yount, Kathryn M. 2012. Knowledge and beliefs about national development and developmental hierarchies: The viewpoints of ordinary people in thirteen countries. Social science research 41(5):1053-1068. PMCID: PMC3462366.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn, Jennings, Elyse A, Pradhan, Meeta S. 2012. A Micro-Level Event-Centered Approach to Investigating Armed Conflict and Population Responses. Demography 49(4):1521-1546. PMCID: PMC3495997.
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Yount, Kathryn , Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad , Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Xie, Yu. 2012. International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights From the Developmental Idealism Framework. Demography 49(2):677-698. PMCID: PMC3328099.
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Colter Mitchell. 2012. The Measurement and Prevalence of Knowledge of Schema about Family and Development. Population Studies :329-345. PMCID: PMC3505987.
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Colter Mitchell. 2012. The measurement and prevalence of an ideational model of family and economic development in Nepal. Population Studies 66(3):329-345.
- Elyse A. Jennings, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2012. The Effect of Parentsâ Attitudes on Sonsâ Marriage Timing. American Sociological Review 77(6):923-945.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2011. Social Organization, Population, and Land Use. American Journal of Sociology 117(1):209-258.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2010. Community Services and Out-Migration. International Migration 48(3):1-41. PMCID: PMC3146299.
- William G Axinn, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2010. Environmental change and out-migration: evidence from Nepal. Population and Environment 32(2):109-136. PMCID: PMC3042700.
- Arland Thornton, ..., Barber, Jennifer S, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Colter Mitchell, Norbert Schwarz, Linda C Young-Demarco, et al.. 2010. Creating questions and protocols for an international study of development and family life. Survey methods in multinational, multiregional, and multicultural contexts
- Arland Thornton, Barber, Jennifer S, Barber, Jennifer S, Julie Ann Josefosky de Jong, Colter Mitchell, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Norbert Schwarz, Linda C Young-Demarco, Jiang, Yang , Julie Ann Josefosky de Jong, King, Katherine E, Lesthaeghe, Ron J., Mehanna, Sohair , Colter Mitchell, Moaddel, Mansoor, Mary Beth Ofstedal, Norbert Schwarz, Wang, Guangzhou , Xie, Yu, Yang, Li-Shou, Linda C Young-Demarco, Yount, Kathryn . 2010. Creating Questions and Protocols for an International Study of Ideas About Development and Family Life. Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Conexts
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn. 2010. Community context, land use and first birth. Rural Sociology 75(3):478-513.
- Arland Thornton, ..., Barber, Jennifer S, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Julie Ann Josefosky de Jong, Colter Mitchell, Mary Beth Ofstedal, Linda C Young-Demarco, et al.. 2010. Process and Method for Creating Questions and Protocols for an International Study of Developmental Idealism, Developmental Thinking, and Family Life. Pp. 59-74 in Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts, edited by M. Braun, B. Edwards, J. Harkness, T. Johnson, L. Lyberg, P. Mohler, B. E. Pennell, and T. W. Smith. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2010. Environmental change and out-migration: Evidence from Nepal. Population and environment 32:109-136.
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2008. International dissemination of ideas about development and family change. International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives :19-44.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Barber, Jennifer S. 2008. The influence of ideational dimensions of social change on family formation in Nepal. International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives :251-280.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Barber, Jennifer S, William G Axinn. 2008. The neighborhood history calendar: A data collection method designed for dynamic multilevel modeling. Sociological Methodology 27(1):355-392.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Bhandari, Prem B., Shrestha, S S. 2007. Sociocultural and geographical disparities in child immunization in Nepal. Asia-Pacific Population Journal 22(1):43-64.
- William G Axinn, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2007. The Spread of Health Services and Fertility Transition. Demography 44(4):747-770.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Barber, Jennifer S. 2007. The influence of ideational dimensions of social change on family formation in Nepal. International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives
- Arland Thornton, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Binstock, Georgina . 2007. International Networks, Ideas, and Family Change. International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives
- Arland Thornton, Georgina Binstock, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2007. International dissemination of ideas about development and family change. International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives :19.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Hoelter,Lynette F. 2007. Land use and first birth timing in an agricultural setting. Population and Environment 28(6):289-320.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn, Arland Thornton, Arland Thornton. 2006. Social change, premarital nonfamily experience, and spouse choice in an arranged marriage society. American Journal of Sociology 111(4):1181-1218.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn, Arland Thornton. 2006. Social change, premarital nonfamily experience, and spouse choice in an arranged marriage society. American Journal of Sociology 111(4):1181-1218.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, William G Axinn. 2006. Family change in Nepal: evidence from Western Chitwan.(Report). Contributions to Nepalese Studies 33(2):177-201.
- Hoelter,Lynette F, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2004. Social Change, Premarital Non-Family Experiences, and Marital Dynamics. Journal of Marriage and the Family 66(3):1131-1151.
- William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 1999. Innovations in Life History Calendar Applications. Social Science Research 28(3):243-264.
- William G Axinn, Barber, Jennifer S, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 1997. The neighborhood history calendar: : A data collection method designed for dynamic multilevel modeling. Sociological Methodology 27: 355-392
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. . Determinants of marital quality in an arranged marriage society. Social science research 42(1):59-70.