We’re Bad at Measuring Inequality—Here’s Why That Matters
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HBR IdeaCast
STEFANIE STANTCHEVA: Yeah, so the projects we do at the Social Economics Lab, and by the way, we call it social economics, because it is about how people form views on economic issues and think about economic topics, but taking into account social phenomena and the broader social context. So various groups that may be relevant to your perceptions, like people with the same age as you, people who live in your city, people with the same level of education or in the same sector of work, but also smaller groups like your immediate neighbors or your coworkers at your workplace, even your former schoolmates you went to school with, et cetera.