Journal Articles

2013

Allendorf, Keera and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2013. "Determinants of Marital Quality in an Arranged Marriage Society." Social Science Research 42(1):59-70. NIHMSID: NIHMS439997.

Bhandari, Prem and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2013. "Rural Agricultural Change and Fertility Transition in Nepal." Rural Sociology NIHMSID: NIHMS431748.

Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya. Forthcoming. “Impact of Remittances Using Propensity Score Matching.” Journal of Population Research PMC Journal - In Process.

Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. 2013. “Attitudes about Children and Fertility Limitation Behavior.” Population Research and Policy Review 32:1-24. NIHMSID: NIHMS448385.

Ghimire, Dirgha J. and William G. Axinn. Forthcoming. “Marital Processes, Arranged Marriage, and Contraception to Limit Fertility.” Demography PMC Journal - In Process.

Ghimire, Dirgha J., Stephanie Chardoul, Ronald Kessler, William G. Axinn, and Bishnu Adhikari. 2013. "Modifying and Validating the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) for Use in Nepal." International Journal for Methods in Psychiatric Research 22(1):71-81. PMCID: PMC3610833.

Jennings, Elyse A. and Jennifer S. Barber. 2013. "The Influence of Neighbors’ Family Size Preference on Women’s Progression to Higher Parity Births." Studies in Family Planning 44(1):67-84. PMCID: PMC3621985.

Piotrowski, Martin, Dirgha J. Ghimire, and Ronald Rindfuss. 2013. "Farming Systems and Rural Out-Migration in Nang Rong, Thailand, and Chitwan Valley, Nepal." Rural Sociology 78(1):75-108. PMC Journal - In Process.

Williams, Nathalie E. Forthcoming. "How Community Organizations Moderate the Effect of Armed Conflict on Migration in Nepal." Population Studies NIHMSID: NIHMS438761

Yarger, Jennifer and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. Forthcoming.“ Nonfamily Experience and Receipt of Personal Care in a Rapidly Changing Context.” Ageing & Society NIHMSID: NIHMS448383.

2012

Axinn, William G., Dirgha J. Ghimire, and Nathalie E. Williams. 2012. “Collecting Survey Data During Armed Conflict." Journal of Official Statistics 28(2):153-171. PMCID: PMC3571111.

Brauner-Otto, Sarah. 2012. "Schools, Their Spatial Distribution and Characteristics, and Fertility Limitation." Rural Sociology 77(3): 321-354. PMCID: PMC3498490.

Carter, Neil H., Shawn J. Riley, and Jianguo Liu. 2012. "Utility of a Psychological Framework for Carnivore Conservation." Oryx 46(4):525-535. PMC Journal - In Process.

Carter, Neil H., Binoj K. Shrestha, Jhamak B. Karki, Narendra Man Babu Pradhan, and Jianguo Liu. 2012. "Coexistence between Wildlife and Humans at Fine Spatial Scales." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 109(38):15360-15365. PMCID: PMC3458348.

Dangol, Dharma R. and Keshav L. Maharjan. 2012. "Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Flora in Forest, Grassland and Common Land Ecosystems of Western Chitwan, Nepal." Journal of International Development and Cooperation 18(4):77-92. PMC Journal - In Process.

Jennings, Elyse A., William G. Axinn, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2012. "The Effect of Parents' Attitudes on Sons' Marriage Timing." American Sociological Review 77:923-945. PMCID: PMC3590910.

Link, Cynthia F., William G. Axinn, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2012. "Household Energy Consumption: Community Context and the Fuelwood Transition." Social Science Research 41:598-611. PMCID: PMC3461177.

Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shabazi, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Arjan Gjonca, Attila Melegh, Colter Mitchell, Mansoor Moaddel, Yu Xie, Li-Shou Yang, Linda C.Young-DeMarco, and Katharine Yount. 2012. "Knowledge and Beliefs about National Development and Development Hierarchies: The Viewpoints of Ordinary People in Thirteen Countries." Social Science Research 41:1053-1068. PMCID: PMC3462366.

Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, Kathryn M. Yount, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha J. Ghimire, and Yu Xie. 2012. "International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework." Demography 49(2): 677-698. PMCID: PMC3328099.

Thornton, Arland, Dirgha J. Ghimire, and Colter Mitchell. 2012. "The Measurement and Prevalence of an Ideational Model of Family and Economic Development in Nepal." Population Studies 66(3):329-345. PMCID: PMC3505987.

Williams, Nathalie, Dirgha J. Ghimire, William G. Axinn, Elyse A. Jennings, and Meeta S. Pradhan. 2012. "A Micro-Level Event-Centered Approach to Investigating Armed Conflict and Population Responses." Demography 49(4):1521-1546. PMCID: PMC3495997

2011

Axinn, William G. and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2011. "Social Organization, Population and Land Use." American Journal of Sociology 117(1): 209-258. PMCID: PMC3162250.

Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya and Douglas S. Massey. 2011. "Environmental Degradation and Out-Migration: Evidence from Nepal." In Migration, Environment and Climate Change, edited by E. Piguet, A. Pécoud and P. de Guchteneire. Cabridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya and Douglas S. Massey. 2011. "Individual Decisions to Migrate During Civil Conflict." Demography 48(2):401-424. PMCID: PMC3365856.

Link, Cynthia F. 2011. "Spousal Communication and Contraceptive Use in Rural Nepal: An Event History Analysis."
Studies in Family Planning 42(2):83-92. PMCID: PMC3338321.

Williams, Nathalie, Arland Thornton, Dirgha J. Ghimire, and Linda Young-DiMarco. 2011. "Nepali Migrants to the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Values, Behaviors, and Plans." In Migrant Labour in the Persian Gulf, edited by M. Kamrava and Z. Babar. New York: Columbia University Press.

2010

Axinn, William G., Jennifer S. Barber, and Ann E. Biddlecom. 2010. "Social Organization and the Transition from Direct to Indirect Consumption." Social Science Research 39:357-368. PMCID: PMC2877213.

Ghimire, Dirgha J. and William G. Axinn. 2010. "Community Context, Land Use and First Birth." Rural Sociology 75(3):478-513. PMCID: PMC2945390.

Massey, Douglas S., Nathalie Williams, William G. Axinn, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2010. "Community Services and Out-Migration." International Migration 48(3):1-41. PMCID: PMC3146299.

Massey, Douglas S., William G. Axinn, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2010 "Environmental Change and Out-Migration: Evidence from Nepal." Population and Environment 32(2):109-136. PMCID: PMC3042700.

Piotrowski, Martin. 2010. "Mass Media and Rural Out-Migration in the Context of Social Change: Evidence from Rural Nepal." International Migration NIHMSID: NIHMS274565.

Thornton, Arland, Alexandra Achen, Jennifer S. Barber, Georgina Binstock, Wade M. Garrison, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Wang Guangzhou, Ronald Inglehart, Rukmalie Jayakody, Yang Jiang, Julie de Jong, Katherine King, Ron J. Lesthaeghe, Sohair Mehenna, Colter Mitchell, Mansoor Moaddel, Mary Beth Ofstedal, Norbert Schwarz, Yu Xie, Li-Shou Yang, Linda C. Young-DeMarco, and Kathryn Yount. 2010. "Creating Questions and Protocols for an International Study of Ideas About Development and Family Life." 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.

2009

Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya and Douglas S. Massey. 2009. "Processes of Internal and International Migration from Chitwan, Nepal." International Migration Review 43(3):621-651. PMCID: PMC3060790.

Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. 2009. "Schools, Schooling, and Children's Support of Their Aging Parents." Ageing & Society 29(7):1015-39. PMCID: PMC2801906.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2009. "Reciprocal Relation between Population and the Environment: Innovation in Flora Data Collection." Journal of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science 30:143-149. PMCID: PMC3427142.

Shrestha, Binoj Kumar, Dirgha J. Ghimire, and Dharma R. Dangol 2009. "Lahare Banmara (Mikania micrantha) ko Atikraman; Badhdo Chunauti" (in Nepali) Paryabaran 89:26-30.

Williams, Nathalie. 2009. "Education, Gender, and Migration in the Context of Social Change." Social Science Research 38(4):883-896. PMCID: PMC3418604.

Yabiku, Scott T. and Sarah Schlabach. 2009. "Social Change and the Relationships Between Education and Employment." Population Research and Policy Review 28(4):533-549. PMCID: PMC3066097.

2008

Axinn, William G., Dirgha J. Ghimire, and Jennifer S. Barber. 2008. "The Influence of Ideational Dimensions of Social Change on Family Formation in Nepal." In International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives, edited by R. Jayakody, A. Thornton, and W. G. Axinn. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2008 "Fulbari VDC (Chitwan) A Potential Destination for Agrotourism Business." Nepal Travel Trade Reporter 10(49): 44-49.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2008. "Traditional Uses of Plants of Commonland Habitats in Western Chitwan, Nepal." Journal of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science 29:71-78. PMCID: PMC3432267

Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2008. "International Dissemination of Ideas about Development and Family Change." In International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives, edited by R. Jayakody, A. Thornton, and W.G. Axinn. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

2007

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.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2007. "Human Impact on Plant Resources: Evidence from Western Chitwan, Nepal." Nepal Travel Trade Reporter 10(43):44-45.

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 R. Dangol. 2006. "Change in Grassland Vegetation in the Northern Part of Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal." Scientific World 4(4):78-83.

Shrestha, Binoj Kumar, Dharma R. Dangol, and Krishnaji Ghimire. 2006. "Heterogeneity in Plant Population and Species Diversity in Barandabhar Corridor Forest, Chitwan." Banko Janakari 16(2):58-63.

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): 583-621.

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.

Dangol, Dharma R., Prem Bhandari, Bishnu Adhikari, Indra Chaudhary and Susan Gurung. 2005. "Pashchhim Chitwanko banaspati surbhekchhen tatha vishleshan" (In Nepali). Hamro Sirjana 2063:33-40.

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 34:163-192.

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 People and the Environment, edited by J. Fox, R.R. Rindfuss, S. Walsh, and V, Mishra. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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

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

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.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2002. "Ethnobotanical research and education in Chitwan, Nepal." Journal of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science 23:1-7.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2002. Dictionary of Forest and Common Land Plants of Western Chitwan. Rampur, Nepal: Population and Ecology Research Laboratory, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2002. "Economic Uses of Forest Plant Resources in Western Chitwan, Nepal." Banko Janakari 12(2):56-64.

Maples, Jerry J., Susan A. Murphy, and William G. Axinn. 2002. "Two-Level Proportional Hazards Models." Biometrics 58(4):754-763. PMID: 12495129.

Pearce, Lisa D. 2002. "Integrating Survey and Ethnographic Methods for Systematic Anomalous 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 Yabiku. 2001. "Social Change, the Social Organization of Families, and Fertility Limitation." American Journal of Sociology 106(5):1219-1261.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2001. A Bibliography of Literature on Flora, Ecology, Environment and Ethnobotany. Rampur, Nepal: Population and Ecology Research Laboratory, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science.

Dangol, Dharma R. 2001. Measures for Vegetation Description and Analysis. Rampur, Nepal: Population and Environment Study Project, Population and Ecology Research Laboratory.

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

Dangol, Dharma 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.

Dangol, Dharma R. and Y. M. Shrestha. 2001. "Weeds of West Chitwan Wheat Ecosystem". Environment April-September, 2001.

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 A. Murphy, William G. Axinn and Jerry Maples. 2000. "Discrete-Time Multilevel Hazard Analysis" Sociological Methodology 30:201-235.

Matthews, Stephen A., Ganesh P. Shivakoti and Netra Chhetri. 2000. "Population Forces and Environmental Change: Observations from Western Chitwan, Nepal." Society and Natural Resources 13:763-775.

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.

Dangol, Dharma R. 1999. PERL Flora Manual. Rampur, Nepal: Population and Ecology Research Laboratory, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science.

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. and Ganesh P. Shivakoti. 1997. "Demographic Issues and the Use of Natural Resources." In People, Participation, and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Dynamics of Natural Resource Systems, edited by Shivakoti et al. Bloomington, Indiana and Rampur, Chitwan: Winrock International.

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 27:355-392. PMID: 12348199.

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." In People, Participation, and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Dynamics of Natural Resource Systems, edited by Shivakoti et al. Bloomington, Indiana and Rampur, Chitwan: Winrock International.

Richter, Kerry and Netra Chhetri. 1997. "Issues and Strategies for Understanding Population and Ecology Inter-linkages in Western Chitwan." In People, Participation, and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Dynamics of Natural Resource Systems, edited by Shivakoti et al. Bloomington, Indiana and Rampur Chitwan: Winrock International.