Institution: Centre for Economic Analysis
enEA, the Centre for Economic Analysis, is an independent non-profit academic research institute aiming to provide rigorous highest level analysis of effects of economic and social policy with a focus on Poland.
CenEA strives to promote effective evidence-based policy by improving the understanding of consequences of economic and social policies on individuals, firms and the economy as a whole. We aim to:
- provide rigorous highest level analysis of effects of economic and social policy with a focus on Poland,
- promote effective evidence-based policy,
- build local capacity in research in economics and governance in Poland,
- promote a stimulating and sustainable environment capable of attracting talent from around the world,
- develop an independent, well-informed voice in the public policy debate in Poland.
CenEA (KRS: 0000213332) was established in 2004 by the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, initially as the Warsaw Institute for Socio-Economic Research. The institute changed its name to Centre for Economic Analysis and moved its site to Szczecin in September 2009. CenEA is a member of the FREE Network.
Beata Sitkowska
Beata Sitkowska joined the CenEA team in August 2025 as an Research Economist. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and IT Applications, obtained from the University of Szczecin in 2020 and a BA degree in German Philology. Her research interests focus on health inequalities from a life time perspective with a specific focus on differences by gender and cohort. She is responsible for CenEA’s Commentary Series focused on fiscal policy in Poland.
Email: bsitkowska@cenea.org.pl
Paulina Podorska
Paulina Podorska has been a Research Economist at CenEA since August 2025. She is in her final year of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Econometrics at the University of Szczecin. She has been responsible for database management and development, and is a member of the Polish National Team of the EUROMOD model. She is also working on analysis of demographic trends in Central and Eastern Europe and the relationship between fertility and labour market activity.
Email: ppodorska@cenea.org.pl
Michał Myck
Michał Myck is Director and Member of the Board of CenEA. He previously worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (1999-2004; International Fellow 2005-2011) and at the DIW-Berlin (2005-2013). In years 2005-2017 he was the Polish Country Team Leader for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). He is a professor at the Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
He received his B.A. (First Class) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford (1997) and an M.Phil. degree in Economics at the University of Oxford (1999). In March 2006 he received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Warsaw. He completed his habilitation in June 2015 at the School of Business and Economics of the Freie Universität Berlin (Privatdozent until December 2018). He is currently associated as Privatdozent with Universität Greifswald. He is a Research Fellow at IZA Bonn and regularly cooperates with the World Bank.
His research has focused on modelling of labour market behaviour and on the implications of labour market regulations on employment and retirement decisions. He has studied the effectiveness of tax and benefit systems and worked on issues related to measurement of poverty and income inequality. He published in such journals as American Economic Journal – Economic Policy, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Social Science and Medicine, and Labour Economics.
For the list of his publications in RePEc see: RePEc and in Google Scholar see: Google Scholar
e-mail: mmyck@cenea.org.pl
Michał Myck
Michał Myck is Director and Member of the Board of CenEA. He previously worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (1999-2004; International Fellow 2005-2011) and at the DIW-Berlin (2005-2013). In years 2005-2017 he was the Polish Country Team Leader for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
He received his B.A. (First Class) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford (1997) and an M.Phil. degree in Economics at the University of Oxford (1999). In March 2006 he received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Warsaw. He completed his habilitation in June 2015 at the School of Business and Economics of the Freie Universität Berlin (Privatdozent until December 2018). He is currently associated as Privatdozent with Universität Greifswald. He is a Research Fellow at IZA Bonn and regularly cooperates with the World Bank.
His research has focused on modelling of labour market behaviour and on the implications of labour market regulations on employment and retirement decisions. He has studied the effectiveness of tax and benefit systems and worked on issues related to measurement of poverty and income inequality. He published in such journals as American Economic Journal – Economic Policy, Journal of Health Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Labour Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economics of Transition, Fiscal Studies, Oxford Review of Economic Policy and Review of Economics of the Household.
For the list of his publications in RePEc see: RePEc and in Google Scholar see: Google Scholar
e-mail: mmyck@cenea.org.pl