Udayan Rathore
Impact Research Head, Wadhwani Foundation
Udayan Rathore is an economist and Impact Research Head at Wadhwani Foundation (WF), India. He has more than eleven years of experience in academia and research. Before WF he was an Impact Evaluation Consultant with the Quantitative Measurement and Impact Estimation (QMIE) hub situated in the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) team at Oxford Policy Management (OPM). He has also worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, India.
Recent work by Udayan Rathore
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First to wake, last to eat: How India’s quest for gender parity begins on an unequal footing
Evidence from India suggests that women tend to wake earlier and eat later than men, leading to reduced sleep, leisure, and social time – which worsens physical and mental health outcomes. These disparities persist across economic groups, remain larg...
Published 19.09.25