The Polish research team from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) is part of the SHARE-COVID consortium, which received a European Union grant to study the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on health, behavior, society and the economy.

The research will be carried out by a consortium of institutions from 15 countries under the auspices of the Max Planck Society (MaxPlanck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften). The consortium includes the Polish SHARE 50+ research team of the Institute of Statistics and Demography of the Warsaw School of Economics.

The aim of the SHARE-COVID study is to research the unintended effects of the epidemic and to develop recommendations for health, economic and social policy.

The SHARE-COVID study will also study the geographic patterns of epidemics and their relationship to social patterns to find better measures to stop infections and the negative consequences of restrictions imposed on citizens. The third aim is to explore ways to improve the housing and living conditions of the older generation in the face of a pandemic.