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Sharon Ghuman joined the Population Council in 2005 as resident fellow in population studies. Her areas of research specialization are health and human capital accumulation among children and adolescents, evaluating health- and poverty-related programs, and the role of school and health service provider quality in determining health and schooling outcomes. She currently researches teacher absenteeism in primary schools in Pakistan with the Council's director of social science research, Cynthia Lloyd.
Ghuman came to the Council after a postdoctoral fellowship at the NICHD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development), Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. She has collaborated for four years on a longitudinal study that is evaluating a Philippine early childhood development program. She has also conducted research on trends in premarital sexual behavior in Vietnam prior to and after the start of the market reforms in the late 1980s.
Ghuman received her Ph.D. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Her dissertation was on women’s status and child survival in five South and Southeast Asian countries. As a graduate student she also conducted research on the measurement properties of survey items on women’s status.
A partial list of publications includes:
Ghuman, Sharon, Vu Manh Loi, Vu Tuan Huy, and John Knodel. 2006. Continuity and change in premarital sex in Vietnam, International Family Planning Perspectives 32(4): 166 174. (offsite PDF)
Ghuman, Sharon. 2005. Attitudes about sex and marital sexual behavior in Hai Duong Province, Vietnam, Studies in Family Planning 36(2): 95 106. (abstract)
Ghuman, Sharon, Jere Behrman, Judith Borja, Socorro Gultiano, and Elizabeth King. 2005. Family background, service providers, and early childhood development in the Philippines: Proxies and interactions, Economic Development and Cultural Change 54(1): 129 164. (abstract)
Ghuman, Sharon, Helen J. Lee, and Herbert L. Smith. 2005. Measurement of women’s autonomy according to women and their husbands: Results from five Asian countries, Social Science Research 35(1): 1 28.
Ghuman, Sharon. 2003. Women’s autonomy and child survival: A comparison of Muslims and non-Muslims in four Asian countries, Demography 40(3): 419 436. | 