Based on data from the “Survey of Biological and Social Reproduction of the Uruguayan Population: an approach from the perspective of gender and generations” of 2004, we studied the impact of teenage motherhood on the educational outcomes of women. The results confirm the endogeneity of...

This paper analyzes infant mortality in a unique and highly-detailed data set from Uruguay. A duration model is employed to estimate the relationships between infant mortality and socioeconomic status at the individual, household, and community level. Our results indicate that the most important...