Journal Articles  

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2007

Axinn, William G., Dirgha J. Ghimire and Jennifer S. Barber.  2007. "The Influence of Ideational Dimensions of Social Change on Family Formation in Nepal.” In International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives, edited by Ruk Jayakody, Arland Thornton, and William G. Axinn. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Brauner-Otto, Sarah R., William G. Axinn, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2007. “The Spread of Health Services and Fertility Transition.” Demography 44(4):747–770.

Ghimire, Dirgha J. and Lynette F. Hoelter. 2007. “Land Use and First Birth Timing in an Agricultural Setting." Population and Environment 28(6):289-320.

 

Shrestha, Sundar S. and Prem Bhandari. 2007. "Environmental Security and Labor Migration in Nepal." Population and Environment 29(1):25-38.

2006

Axinn, William G. and Lisa D. Pearce. 2006. Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies. Cambridge University Press.

Ghimire, Dirgha J. and William G. Axinn. 2006. “Family Change in Nepal: Evidence from Western Chitwan.” Contributions to Nepalese Studies 33(2):177-201.

Ghimire, Dirgha J., William G. Axinn, Scott T. Yabiku, and Arland Thornton. 2006. "Social Change, Premarital Nonfamily Experience, and Spouse Choice in an Arranged Marriage Society." American Journal of Sociology 111(4):1181-1218.

Shrestha, Binoj Kumar and Dharma Raj Dangol. 2006. “Change in Grassland Vegetation in the Northern Part of Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.” Scientific World 4(4):78-83.

Yabiku, Scott T. 2006. “Land Use and Marriage Timing in Nepal." Population and Environment 27(5-6):445-461.

Yabiku, Scott T. 2006. “Neighbors and Neighborhoods: Effects on Marriage Timing.” Population Research and Policy Review 25(4):305-327.

2005

Biddlecom, Ann E., William G. Axinn, and Jennifer S. Barber.  2005. "Environmental Effects on Family Size Preferences and Subsequent Reproductive Behavior in Nepal." Population and Environment 26(3):183-206.

Dangol, Dharma R.  2005. "Species Composition, Distribution, Life Forms and Folk Nomenclature of Forest and Common Land Plants of Western Chitwan, Nepal." Journal of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science 26:93-105.

Ghimire, Dirgha J. and Paul Mohai. 2005. “Environmentalism and Contraceptive Use: How People in Less Developed Settings Approach Environmental Issues.” Population and Environment 27(1):29-61.

Yabiku, Scott T. 2005. “The Effect of Non-family Experiences on Age of Marriage in a Setting of Rapid Social Change.” Population Studies 59(3):339-354.

2004

Barber, Jennifer S. 2004. "Community Social Context and Individualistic Attitudes Toward Marriage." Social Psychology Quarterly 67(3):236-256.

Barber, Jennifer S. and William G. Axinn. 2004. "New Ideas and Fertility Limitation: The Role of Mass Media." Journal of Marriage and Family 66:1180-1200.

Barber, Jennifer S., Susan A. Murphy, and Natalya Verbitsky. 2004. "Adjusting for Time-Varying Confounding in Survival Analysis." Sociological Methodology 34(1):163-192.

Bhandari, Prem. 2004. "Relative Deprivation and Migration in an Agricultural Setting of Nepal." Population and Environment 25(5):475-499.

Hoelter, Lynette F., William G. Axinn, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2004. "Social Change, Premarital Non-Family Experiences, and Marital Dynamics." Journal of Marriage and Family 66:1131-1151.

Yabiku, Scott T. 2004. "Marriage Timing in Nepal: Organizational Effects and Individual Mechanisms." Social Forces 83(2):559-586.

2003

Axinn, William G. and Jennifer S. Barber. 2003. "Linking People and Land Use: A Sociological Perspective." In J. Fox, R. R. Rindfuss, S. Walsh, and V. Mishra, Editors. People and the Environment. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Barber, Jennifer S., Ann E. Biddlecom and William G. Axinn. 2003. "Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation." Population and Environment 25(2):77-108.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2003. "Economic Uses of Forest Plant Resources in Western Chitwan, Nepal." Banko Janakari 12(2):56-64.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2003. “Economic Uses of Common Land Plant Resources in Western Chitwan, Nepal.” Pp. 35 in Program and Abstracts, International Conference on Himalayan Biodiversity, February 26-28, 2003, Kathmandu. Organized by Himalayan Resources Institute, Biodiversity Research Group, Central Department of Zoology, The Ecological Association of Nepal and Nepal Biotechnology Association.

2002

Barber, Jennifer S., Lisa D. Pearce, Indra Chaudhury, and Susan Gurung. 2002. "Voluntary Associations and Fertility Limitation." Social Forces 80(4):1369-1401.

Beutel, Ann M. and William G. Axinn. 2002. "Gender, Social Change, and Educational Attainment." Economic Development and Cultural Change 51(1):109-134.

Maples, Jerry J., Susan A. Murphy, and William G. Axinn. 2002. "Two-Level Proportional Hazards Models." Biometrics 58:754-763.

Pearce, Lisa D. 2002. "Integrating Survey and Ethnographic Methods for Systematic Case Analysis." Sociological Methodology 32(1):103-132.

2001

Axinn, William G. and Jennifer S. Barber. 2001. "Mass Education and Fertility Transition." American Sociological Review 66(4):481-505.  

Axinn, William G. and Scott T. Yabiku. 2001. "Social Change, the Social Organization of Families, and Fertility Limitation." American Journal of Sociology 106(5):1219-1261.

Dangol, D. R. and Ganesh P. Shivakoti. 2001. "Plant Diversity of Western Chitwan: a Floristic Approach." Journal of Natural History Museum 20:129-148.  

Dangol, D. R. and Ganesh P. Shivakoti. 2001. "Species Composition and Dominance of Plant Communities in Western Chitwan, Nepal." Nepal Journal of Science and Technology 3:69-78.  

Pienta, Amy Mehraban, Jennifer S. Barber, and William G. Axinn. 2001. "Social Change and Adult Children's Attitudes toward Support of Elderly Parents: Evidence from Nepal." Hallym International Journal of Aging 3(2):211-235.

2000

Barber, Jennifer S., Susan Murphy, William G. Axinn, and Jerry Maples. 2000. "Discrete-time Multilevel Hazard Analysis." Sociological Methodology 30:201-35.  

Matthews, Stephen A., Ganesh P. Shivakoti, and Netra Chhetri. 2000. "Population Forces and Environmental Change: Observations from Western Chitwan, Nepal." Pp. 205-18 in Shivakoti et al. (eds.) Participation, People and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Dynamics of Natural Resource Systems. Winrock International: Bloomington, Indiana and Rampur, Chitwan.

1999

Axinn, William G., Lisa D. Pearce, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 1999. "Innovations in Life History Calendar Applications." Social Science Research 28(3):243-264.  

Shivakoti, Ganesh P., William G. Axinn, Prem Bhandari and Netra B. Chhetri. 1999. "The Impact of Community Context on Land Use in an Agricultural Society." Population and Environment 20(3):191-213.

1997

Axinn, William G., Jennifer S. Barber, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 1997. "The Neighborhood History Calendar: A Data Collection Method Designed for Dynamic Multilevel Modeling." Sociological Methodology 27:355-92.  

Axinn, William G. and Ganesh P. Shivakoti. 1997. "Demographic Issues and Use of Natural Resources." Pp. 83-5 in Shivakoti et al. (eds.) Participation, People and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Dynamics of Natural Resource Systems. Winrock International: Bloomington, Indiana and Rampur, Chitwan.  

Barber, Jennifer S., Ganesh P. Shivakoti, William G. Axinn, and Kishor Gajurel. 1997. "Sampling Strategies for Rural Settings: A Detailed Example from Chitwan Valley Family Study, Nepal." Nepal Population Journal 6(5):193-203.  

Matthews, Stephen A. 1997. "Methods to Incorporate Spatial and Temporal Effects in Research on Interrelationships Between Population and Environment." Pp. 205-18 in Shivakoti et al. (eds.) Participation, People and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Dynamics of Natural Resource Systems. Winrock International: Bloomington, Indiana and Rampur, Chitwan.  

Richter, Kerry and Netra Chhetri. 1997. "Issues and Strategies for Understanding Population and Ecology Interlinkages in Western Chitwan." Pp. 114-25 in Shivakoti et al. (eds.) Participation, People and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Dynamics of Natural Resource Systems. Winrock International: Bloomington, Indiana and Rampur, Chitwan.