BMF CP 107: Nigerian Female Business Owners' Financial Access and Business Energy Sufficiency

The current study is conducted to examine the following research questions: How is access to formal finance associated with the business’s energy sufficiency, affordability, and reliability? Is the relationship between access to formal finance and the business’s energy sufficiency, affordability, and reliability conditional on the business owner being female? How is access to informal finance associated with the business’s energy sufficiency, affordability, and reliability? Is the relationship between access to informal finance and the business’s energy sufficiency, affordability, and reliability conditional on the business owner being female? How is access to friends/family/relatives’ loans associated with the business’s energy sufficiency, affordability, and reliability? Is the relationship between access to friends/family/relatives’ loans and the business’s energy sufficiency, affordability, and reliability conditional on the business owner being female? The original dataset was collected by Pelz et al. (2023) and can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02185-0