2024-03-28T21:30:49
113524
Thu Mar 28 21:30:50 EDT 2024
Replication data for: Altruistic Capital
Nava Ashraf
Oriana Bandiera
113524
https://doi.org/10.3886/E113524V1
To understand altruistic behavior, we must understand the process through which altruism develops and is shaped by the agents' own choices and exogenous factors. We introduce the concept of altruistic capital, which grows with effort devoted to altruistic acts and facilitates future altruism. We illustrate its potential use in the context of banking and conclude by showing that returns to altruistic effort shape the agent's choices and are shaped by external events such as the financial crisis.
D11 Consumer Economics: Theory
D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
D64 Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers