# Varieties with the same universal cover

Let $X$ and $Y$ be smooth projective varieties over $\mathbb C$ which have the isomorphic universal covers (in the analytic category).

It's simple to see that $\dim X = \dim Y$.

Is the Kodaira dimension of $X$ equal to the Kodaira dimension of $Y$?

Is $X$ of general type if and only if $Y$ is of general type?

More vaguely: which invariants of $X$ and $Y$ coincide? (What can one reconstruct from the universal cover? Which cohomology groups?)

If the fundamental group is finite, the universal covering has the same cohomologies with values in a field. Indeed there is a useful topological result: assume that $A$ is an $n$-divisible Abelian group (i.e. for any $a \in A$ there exists $a' \in A$ s.t. $a = n \cdot a'$). Than for any $n$-branched covering $\tilde{X} \to X$ one has $H_i(\tilde{X}, A) = H_i(X, A)$ (by the way I'm not pretty sure about the generalisation of this fact for sheaves).
If your variety has non-trivial $b_1$, after passing to the universal cover the first cohomology group obviously disappear and so the top cohomology group does (since the universal cover is not compact). But all the others remain the same. In holomorphic category, I think, the Hodge numbers are preserved as well, but perhaps one must be more careful at this point.