Abstract This study examined the impact of credit received on rural household clean cooking energy consumption. The study pays more attention to clean energies, such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene. Due to the endogenous issue of credit, we employed an instrumental variable approach (IV-Probit and IV-Tobit). We analyzed the survey data collected from four regions, Savannah, Bono East, Eastern and central, in Ghana. The result of the econometrics model depicted that household head relationship with an individual in the city, education level, access to off-farm employment, age, household size, and amount of credit received influences the household’s probability of consuming and spending on clean cooking energies Concerning the amount of credit received impact on clean cooking energy expenditure, rural households in the eastern region compared to their counterparts were more pronounced. Our findings explored the importance of credit on energy consumption and provided policy implications to enhance clean cooking energy consumption.

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信贷可及性对农村家庭清洁烹饪能源消费的影响：以加纳为例

摘要 本研究考察了获得信贷对农村家庭清洁烹饪能源消费的影响。该研究更关注清洁能源，如液化石油气（LPG）和煤油。由于信用的内生问题，我们采用了工具变量法（IV-Probit 和 IV-Tobit）。我们分析了从加纳的萨凡纳、波诺东部、东部和中部四个地区收集的调查数据。计量经济学模型的结果表明，户主与城市中个人的关系、教育水平、获得非农就业机会、年龄、家庭规模和获得的信贷数量会影响家庭对清洁烹饪能源的消费和支出概率。关于获得的信用额度对清洁烹饪能源支出的影响，与同行相比，东部地区的农村家庭更为明显。我们的研究结果探讨了信贷对能源消费的重要性，并为提高清洁烹饪能源消费提供了政策启示。