Mette Ejrnæs and Thomas H. Jørgensen, "Family Planning in a Life
Cycle Model with Income Risk", Journal of Applied Econometrics,
Vol. 35, No. 5, 2020, pp. 567-586.

All files are zipped in ej-files.zip. Because this file contains a mix
of text and binary files, Unix and Linux users should be cautious.
Simply using "unzip -a" is likely to destroy the binary files.

The STATA folder contains all the do-files used to construct the
empirical measures from the BHSP. All BHPS data can be downloaded free
of charge at https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/acquiring-the-data

The following Matlab files (in folder programs) produce the structural
estimation results reported in the paper. All results are stored in
the "Results" folder.

main.m:
  main file. Running this file will run estimation for both educational
  groups and run the post-estimation files to produce the output.

run_estimate.m:
  estimation file. You can run this file by it's own.  

run_post_estimation.m:
  post-estimation production of tables and figures. Loads the
  estimation results from the run_estimate.m file 

run_calibration_figs.m:
  produces calibration figures. Loads the estimation results from the
  run_estimate.m file

est.m:
  static estimation class used to call all functions to estimate the model

prep.m:
  static class that prepares state space and parameters before
  estimation. Called from est.setup


The following files and folders are used by these Matlab files:

mex_solve.mexw64:
  C++ compiled file solving the model

mex_simulate.mexw64:
  C++ compiled file simulating synthetic data from the model

cfuncs:
  folder containing all C++ mex-files used to compile mex_solve and
  mex_simulate.

MatlabData:
  containts all BHPS data used in estimation in .txt format

logs:
  contains estimation logs from estimation of the model.