Where Does Your Tax Go - Allocating a National Budget
A high-school civic and public economics simulation.
About this simulation
Strategy team for the Costaria Ministry of Education weighs three K-12 funding architectures (public provision, universal voucher, means-tested voucher with regulation triangle) against PISA, sorting, cost, and political feasibility — anchored in Friedman 1955, Hsieh-Urquiola 2006, Angrist-Bettinger 2002, Angrist-Cohodes et al. 2016, CREDO 2023, and Epple-Romano-Urquiola 2017.
Who it is for
An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 5 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: The Friedman framework.
- 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.