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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
- Banchoff,Emma, William G Axinn, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Kate M. Scott. 2025. Intergenerational associations of maternal depression with daughters’ family formation. Journal of Marriage and Family 87(2):415-436.
- Pallav Pokhrel, Uttam Sharma, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2025. Self-Rated Health, Frailty, and Tobacco Use in a Community Sample of Adults from Nepal. Substance Use & Misuse
- Choquette-Levy, Nicolas, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Oppenheimer, Michael, Ghimire, Rajendra, Ck, Dil. 2025. Retrenchment under climate-driven risks in subsistence farming communities. Population and Environment 47(2):1-35.
- Dhakal, Usha, Briceno,Emily, Sharma, Uttam, Bogati, Umesh, Sharma, Abha, Shrestha, Lochana, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Mendes de Leon, Carlos F.. 2024. Health care systems and policies for older adults in Nepal: new challenges for a low-middle income country. Discover Public Health 21(1):1-7.
- Karmel W. Choi, Justin D. Tubbs, Younga H. Lee, Yixuan He, Kristin Tsuo, Mary T. Yohannes, Lethukuthula L. Nkambule, Emily Madsen, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Sabrina Hermosilla, Tian Ge, Alicia R. Martin, William G Axinn, Jordan W. Smoller. 2024. Genetic architecture and socio-environmental risk factors for major depressive disorder in Nepal. Psychological Medicine 54(11):3126-3134.
- Rowan,Brian P, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Paul Chapin Schulz, Uttam Sharma. 2024. The relevance of governance, external monitoring, and instructional quality to public-private school differences in student achievement in the Western Chitwan Valley of Nepal: An exploratory analysis. International Journal of Educational Development 109:103076.
- Adhikary, Pratik, Devkota, Hridaya Raj, Reingold, Arthur L., Dirgha Jibi Ghimire. 2024. Factors associated with depressive symptoms among returnee migrants and non-migrants working adults in Madi municipality in Nepal: a community-based cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 24(1):1-9.
- William G Axinn, Banchoff,Emma, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Scott, Kate M.. 2024. Parental depression and their Children’s marriage timing: The long-term consequences of parental mental disorders. Social Science & Medicine 347:116745.
- 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.
- Briceño, Emily M , Dhakal, Usha, Sharma, Uttam, Adhikari, Nabin, Pradhan, Meeta S., Shrestha, Lochana, Jalan, Pankaj, Rai, Janak, Langa,Kenneth M, Lee, Jinkook, Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, de Leon, Carlos F. Mendes. 2023. Neuropsychological Assessment of Older Adults in Nepal for Population-Based Dementia Ascertainment: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 96(4):1339-1352.