This paper extends Horowitz's smoothed maximum score estimator to discrete-time duration models. The estimator's consistency and asymptotic distribution are derived. Monte Carlo simulations using various data generating processes with varying error distributions and shapes of the hazard rate are...

This paper extends Horowitz's smoothed maximum score estimator to discrete-time duration models. The estimator's consistency and asymptotic distribution are derived. Monte Carlo simulations using various data generating processes with varying error distributions and shapes of the hazard rate are...

We consider semiparametric estimation of discrete duration models whose hazard rate can be characterized as an unknown transformation of a parametric index of the observable covariates and elapsed spell length. The information matrix is derived. In the case of separable duration dependence the...