Dirgha Ghimire Dirgha Ghimire

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003

M.A., University of Michigan, 2000

B. Sc., Tribhuvan University, 1986

Dr. Ghimire, is research investigator at Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan and Director of the Institute for Social and Environmental Research, Chitwan Nepal. He 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. He is a PI on the Developmental Idealism and Family and Population Dynamics in Nepal research project.












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Developmental Idealism Studies
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan

Recent Events

The Developmental Idealism Studies Group presented their paper on "Processes and Methods for Creating Questions and Protocols for an International Study of Ideas about Development and Family Life" at 3MC, Berlin, June 2008.

Book Award

Arland Thornton's book Reading History Sideways wins the William J. Goode Book Award of the ASA Section on the Sociology of the Family.

New Data Collection

Developmental Idealism questionnaire supplements added to May and November 2007 Surveys of Consumer Attitudes.

Reading History Sideways

The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton.


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