Cross-National Comparability in AMANDA and SHARE

An overarching aim of the analyses in the AMANDA project is to understand how the diverse historical, cultural and institutional settings - for example the diverse welfare policies and their current reforms - influence the ageing process of individuals and societies. The AMANDA analyses heavily rely on cross-national variation to identify causal effects of policy interventions. Cross-national analysis provides chances and poses challenges. They are the subject of this paper. It describes which measures the SHARE and AMANDA sister projects have taken to cope with the challenges and to maximize the chances.