This package replicates the estimation results from Bayer and Juessen (2012) 
"On the dynamics of interstate migratiuon: Migration costs and self-selection."
All codes are written for Matlab version 2010b or higher.

Run main.m to replicate the estimations. 

The Matlab data file Migration_data.mat contains the relevant migration and income data.
The function simulate_likelihood.m generates moment-distances from simulated and actual data.
The function simulate_likelihoodFE.m generates moment-distances from simulated and actual data for a model with fixed effects.
The function simulate.m and simulateFE.m perform the actual simulations.
The functions simulate_Micro.m and simulate_MicroFE simulate household panels.

Once the main.m programm has been run, run makeTables.m to tabulate results.

Codes make use of parallel computing.

For further information contact christian.bayer@uni-bonn.de

Date: February 23, 2012