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 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.