Abstract: Using a survey dataset of Chinese rural households, we find that access to external finance is positively associated with the decision to become entrepreneur, the initial investment for microenterprises and the use of external finance. Also, we find that the use of informal finance is...

Three typical rural villages are chosen as study areas to study the different effects of main influence factors on rural household energy consumption using the ordinary least squares (OLS) model and the quantile regression (QR) model. Three typical rural villages include an affluent rural...