General Information

SHARE is an EU-sponsored project that will build up a Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. Eventually, a pan-European interdisciplinary panel data set covering persons aged 50 and over will be created.

SHARE will be a fundamental resource for science and public policy. The project brings together scientists from many disciplines, including epidemiology, sociology, statistics, psychology, demography, and economics. Scientists from some 10 countries will be involved in feasibility studies, experiments, and instrument development.

The multidisciplinarity nature of the data will provide new insights in the complex interactions between economic, health, psychological, and social factors determining the quality of life of the elderly. The data will be freely available to the research and public policy community.

This project will look at the choices individuals and households are currently making, and the outcomes that are associated with these choices, as well as assessing how such choices might potentially respond to policy reform. The overall objective of the reseach network on the Economics of Aging is to improve our understanding of the economic decisions of the elderly, in particular with respect to