This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks of gestation on the quantity and quality of births in the short run. We employ a differences-in-differences approach, a comprehensive administrative register of births and a...

Teenage fertility is a social problem because of its private and public costs in countries of different levels of development. Reductions in adolescent birth rates have not necessarily followed the drop in overall fertility due to the demographic transition model. This paper analyses the impact...