PR to fix bugs in LifeCycleProfiles_FHorz_Case1_PType and in SimPanelValues_FHorz_Case1_PType

[aledinola]

I have done some PR that should fix all bugs in LifeCycleProfiles_FHorz_Case1_PType and in SimPanelValues_FHorz_Case1_PType. The PR is here: Fix grouped PType conditional stats with conditional restrictions by aledinola · Pull Request #81 · vfitoolkit/VFIToolkit-matlab · GitHub

As far as I understand, in SimPanelValues_FHorz_Case1_PType you had not implemented yet the pi_semiz with permanent types as last dimension. Now it should work both ways.

Suggestions:

• You could run the simple test you shared in a previous post, after adding the simulate panel command and verify that all is good. In my example (shared on github) I test only for the new approach
• It would be nice to incorporate in the official toolkit examples an example based on finite horizon, with semi-exogenous state, permanent types, panel simulation. The semi-exogenous transition matrix should depend also on the permanent type, besides decision variable d and age j. From what I have seen, these cases tend to break and if there is an official example in the toolkit repo it is easier to run tests.

[robertdkirkby]

Merged most, everything now works and both of these are demoed here:

Semi-exogenous shocks with permanent types

I’m done with the semi-exogenous states for permanent types. You must set up vfoptions.semiz_grid, and then one of vfoptions.SemiExoShockFn or vfoptions.pi_semiz. You can include age and ptype as dimensions of semiz_grid and pi_semiz, or not as you wish. Dependence on ptype can be done as a (the last) dimension, or as fieldnames. Here is the code that I was checking all the combos. % Age % One endogenous variable: assets % One stochastic exogenous variables: income shock J=10; % Ages 1 to 1…