educational gender gaps within a household. The analysis combined
household level longitudinal data, from Uruguay’s Continuous Household Survey
carried on in 2012 and 2013, with the survey of Nutrition, Child Development and
Health conducted in the country in the same years. We use two different models to
estimate these linkages: a Probit model based on the income measurement of poverty,
and a Logit model based on a multidimensional measurement of deprivations. Child
poverty, both considered as an income constraint or deprivation, responds strongly to
changes in wage and educational gender gaps, although the effects are larger in the
first case. We find a strong and significant effect of parental education and labour
status, especially for females, on child poverty. The study then calls for policy
measures in favour of increasing opportunities in the labour market for women, and
educational opportunities for adults in general, as an imperative tool to lower child
poverty rates in the country.