Peer Effects with Sample Selection

Does the Closeness of Peers Matter? An Investigation Using Online Training Platform Data and Survey Data

“…So far, the OLS results focus on the decisions on the duration of lecture attendance without considering no participation. However, the duration of attendance is often dependent on the whether-to-attend decisions through the correlation between the error terms (Gu et al, 2022). Hence, we need to take no participation into account in the estimations.…”