YUYA AIKAWA

In sub-Saharan Africa, traditional biomass cooking imposes substantial health and time costs on women, yet the role of women's bargaining power in cleaner-fuel adoption remains unclear. Using three waves of the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (2008-2022), we estimate the effect of women's bargaining power on households' choices among biomass, transitional, and modern clean fuels. To address endogeneity, we instrument a household decision-making index with wives' attitudes toward intimate partner violence. We find that greater bargaining power shifts households toward cleaner cooking fuels-primarily from firewood to charcoal among poorer households and from firewood to LPG among wealthier households. These findings suggest that women's bargaining power is an important factor to consider alongside policies that expand access to clean cooking fuels.