This article makes a contribution to the empirical and methodological discussion on the standard of living in Latin America during the colonial period. It presents evidence obtained from primary sources on the evolution of nominal wages, cost of living and real wages for 10 occupational categories in the region of Montevideo between 1760 and 1810. The results place rural laborers and masons in Montevideo below subsistence levels until at least the first decade of the 19thcentury, a finding that is difficult to reconcile with the demographic and productive growth of the region at the same time. Wages may not be the main component in the structure of family income among the subordinate sectors of the colonial Río de la Plata.

This paper gathers information on the diet of the people of Montevideo. It puts forward some hypotheses regarding the caloric intake of the plebeian and non-elite social groups, introduces two Laspeyres indexes of food prices for Montevideo in 1760-1810, analyses the movements of food prices in Montevideo in this period and compares the case of Montevideo with neighbouring cities.

Este trabajo presenta una estimación del producto agrario por habitante en la segunda mitad del siglo xviii para la región que se ha denominado «Litoral rioplatense atlántico». Con base en fuentes primarias y secundarias, el texto hace una reconstrucción del producto agrario total y por habitante que resulta de considerar los 2 componentes principales de la producción agraria regional: la producción de alimentos para el mercado interno y la producción de cueros para exportación. Los resultados muestran que el producto agrario se triplicó sobradamente entre 1760-1800, impulsado en primer lugar por un importante crecimiento demográfico acompañado de una expansión de la frontera agraria, y en segundo lugar por el desarrollo que experimentó la producción de cueros para el comercio atlántico. Finalmente, se muestra que la trayectoria del producto agrario de Buenos Aires y Montevideo presentó heterogeneidades territoriales, temporales y entre segmentos de la producción agraria.

We analyse gender gaps in published works on economics in Uruguay. First of all, we describe the evolution of the professional context and female participation in the discipline. We then provide an empirical analysis of the research output based on two databases: one containing working papers and technical documents and the other including articles published in journals. The main results are: a) men produce more published articles than women but there is no gender gap in working papers; b) women and men are unevenly represented throughout different fields; c) collaboration with non-local authors is more likely among men than women; d) non-local co-authorship is strongly associated with the gender gap in journal articles production.