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Dirgha Jibi Ghimire
Research Professor; Training Faculty
Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Interests:
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.
Select Projects
- Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science
- Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating their Association with Students’ Gains in Achievement in Nepal
- Impact of relationship factors on physical and psychological health and wellbeing
- Family Migration Context And Early Life Outcomes
- Intergenerational Influences on Marriage, Contraception and Childbearing
- A New Population-Scale Approach for the Study of Psychological Stress in the Transition to Adulthood
Select 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.
- Private: Hermosilla,Sabrina, Karmel W. Choi, Askari,Melanie, Taylor Marks, Christy Denckla, Axinn,William G, Jordan W. Smoller, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, 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.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Emma Mariah Banchoff, Cole,Faith, William G Axinn. 2022. The transition to parenthood, opportunity to drink, drinking, and alcohol use disorder. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 241:109697.
- Axinn,William G, Banchoff,Emma, Cole,Faith, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, 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, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi. 2022. Migration and Health in Nepal. Migration and Health :297-306.
- Epstein, Adrienne, Emily Treleaven, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, 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, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, Tiwari Ujjal. 2022. Household members? migration and rice productivity. Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research 11(6):50-63.
- Axinn,William G, Karmel W. Choi, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, Cole,Faith, Private: 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.
- Melanie S. Askari, Emily Treleaven, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, Axinn,William G, 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.
- SarahBrauner-Otto, Sarah Baird, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi. 2021. Women’s employment and Children’s education: Longitudinal evidence from Nepal. Social Science Research 103:102669.