This paper explores the effect of religious observance and affiliation to the dominant religion (Catholicism) on trust in institutions, towards others and market attitudes. The analysis is performed using a Latin American database of twenty thousand respondents from 2004 by means of ordered...

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...

El principal objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la evolución de la segregación ocupacional por género en Uruguay y en particular si esta evolución estuvo asociada a la tendencia en el diferencial de salarios entre hombres y mujeres. Existe un alto nivel de segregación en Uruguay y no...

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a wide variety of topics. This book assesses a method that takes advantage of both types of...

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a wide variety of topics. This book assesses a method that takes advantage of both types of...

This paper analyzes various dimensions of the quality of life in Montevideo. The paper finds that satisfaction with various public goods and services at the neighborhood level play a minor role in the overall reported well-being of individuals and in the satisfaction of life domains, such as...

Este trabajo examina las relaciones que se establecen entre los individuos, a partir de un análisis de las transferencias que los hogares realizan en tiempo y en dinero, considerando el acceso potencial a la ayuda entre familiares. El principal objetivo de la investigación fue entender si la...