This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks …

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 …

This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks …

estimating the causal effect of teenage fertility on education using an Instrumental Variables approach. Local abortion rates … official information on the number of legally terminated pregnancies in Uruguay since abortion reform in 2012. Results suggest … that access to legal abortion reduced teenage fertility. We provide an exogenous instrument for teenage fertility - legal …

estimating the causal effect of teenage fertility on education using an Instrumental Variables approach. Local abortion rates … official information on the number of legally terminated pregnancies in Uruguay since abortion reform in 2012. Results suggest … that access to legal abortion reduced teenage fertility. We provide an exogenous instrument for teenage fertility - legal …

Uruguay is one of very few countries in Latin America that has a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of …

Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides …

Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides …

births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a generous cash transfer program led to a sizeable 15% reduction in the …