Public Provision vs Vouchers — Schooling Choice Lab
Strategy team for the Costaria Ministry of Education weighs three K-12 funding architectures (public provision, universal voucher, means-tested…
About this simulation
A 45-minute, three-round bilingual lab where students build a Lorenz curve from 10 households of a Colombian market town, compare Norway, Spain, US, Mexico, Colombia and South Africa side-by-side, then try one redistributive policy lever and watch the Gini move. Maps to IB Economics 2.10 (Inequality and poverty), IB BM 1.2 (Stakeholders) and AP Macro distribution unit.
Who it is for
An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: Villa Real, 10 households.
- The simulation can be run in English, Español.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.