PLEASE READ ME: The dataset available in this page is to be intended as property of the authors **ONLY**. Access to other users is granted solely to reproduce the results reported in our paper. Any other use represents a violation of intellectual property rights, which will be prosecuted. This page reports dataset and analyses codes for the paper: Grimalda, G., Buchan, N. R., Ozturk, O. D., Pinate, A. C., Urso, G., & Brewer, M. B. (2021). Exposure to COVID-19 is associated with increased altruism, particularly at the local level. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-14. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97234-2 Analyses were conducted with ©Stata version 16.1. The codes to reproduce the analyses are included in the file “Replication do file.do”, of which a text version is provided. The dataset in csv format is “Dataset Master.csv”, of which a Stata version is provided. The description of the variables is included in the file "Codebook". The questionnaire from which variables are constructed is available in the Methods section: https://osf.io/jw46f/ .