Impact of Education on Women’s Housework and Childcare Performance in Kyrgyzstan.

Abstract

This study examines the impact of education on women’s time spent for unpaid housework and childcare in Kyrgyzstan. The data from Life in Kyrgyzstan Survey for the years 2011 to 2013 is analyzed. Household tasks such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, childcare, and maintaining the well-being of family members are all unpaid labor. There is an opportunity cost of doing the unpaid housework. Random effects results prove the education significant effect on women’s time spent for housework. People with the technical education on average spend 12 minutes less and people university degree spend 25 minutes less on housework per day. It should be note that women on average spend more time (35 minutes) on unpaid housework than men do. There was not enough evidence found to suggest an association between education and childcare. Still, women spend more time on childcare, on average 35 minutes more per day comparatively to men.