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Input data to replicate "The social cost of tropical cyclones"
<p>Input data for the <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8056520">scripts</a> that replicate the results of <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43114-4">Krichene et al. 2023</a>.</p> <p>To run the <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8056520">scripts</a>, the following files from this repository need to be placed in the <code>./data/input/</code> subdirectory of the project folder containing the <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8056520">scripts</a>:</p> <ul> <li><code>GMT.nc</code>: Global mean temperature time series as used by the <a href="https://gitlab.pik-potsdam.de/tovogt/tc_emulator">tropical cyclone emulator</a>.</li> <li><code>GrowthClimateDataset.dta</code>: The <a href="https://purl.stanford.edu/wb587wt4560">input data</a> of <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature15725">Burke et al. 2015</a>.</li> <li><code>IHME_GLOBAL_GDP_ESTIMATES_1950_2015.csv</code>: Historical GDP per capita data from <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-10-12">James et al. 2012</a> (downloaded from <a href="https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/gross-domestic-product-gdp-estimates-country-1950-2015">IHME</a>).</li> <li><code>mean_temperature_gswp3-w5e5.csv</code>: Population-weighted average national temperature time series for the historical period.</li> <li><code>pulse_response_ricke_caldeira_2014.csv</code>: The global mean temperature response of an additional emission pulse according to <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124002">Ricke & Caldeira 2014</a>.</li> <li><code>tcdata/TCE-DAT_historic-exposure_1950-2015.csv</code> and <code>tcdata/TotalPopulation.csv</code>: Historical (national) numbers of people affected by tropical cyclones according to <a href="https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2017.011">TCE-DAT</a> with the corresponding total population counts.</li> <li><code>tcdata/emulator/</code>: Projected (national) shares of people affected by tropical cyclones according to the <a href="https://gitlab.pik-potsdam.de/tc_cost/tc_emulator">tropical cyclone emulator</a> as computed by the scripts in the <a href="https://gitlab.pik-potsdam.de/tc_cost/tc_people_affected">corresponding repository</a>.</li> <li><code>wid_all_data.zip</code>: A bulk data set from the <a href="https://wid.world/bulk_download/wid_all_data.zip">World Inequality Database</a>.</li> </ul> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43114-4">Krichene et al. 2023</a> and the README file provided with the <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8056520">scripts</a>.</p>
The Social Cost of Carbon: Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount Rates
<p>This repository contains the socioeconomic and emissions projections generated by the Resources for the Future Socioeconomic Projections (RFF-SPs) model as discussed in Rennert et al., "<a href="https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/the-social-cost-of-carbon-advances-in-long-term-probabilistic-projections-of-population-gdp-emissions-and-discount-rates/">The Social Cost of Carbon: Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount Rates</a>" , forthcoming at the <em>Brookings Papers on Economic Activity</em>. The data take the form of a Monte Carlo simulation with n = 10,000 draws.</p> <p>File structure and column metadata are described here: </p> <p>--- <br> emissions/ <br> --- </p> <p>- rffsp_co2_emissions.csv <br> - rffsp_ch4_emissions.csv <br> - rffsp_n2o_emissions.csv </p> <p>Each file in this folder contains 3 columns: sample, year, and value. For each row: </p> <p>- sample contains the number identifying which draw a prediction belongs to (from 1 to 10,000). <br> - year contains the calendar year of the prediction. <br> - value contains the projected annual global emissions of the gas specified in the filename. IMPORTANT: Units are as follows: "rffsp_co2_emissions.csv" is in gigatons C (not CO2), "rffsp_ch4_emissions.csv " is in megatons CH4, and "rffsp_n2o_emissions.csv " is in megatons N2 (not N2O). </p> <p>--- <br> pop_income/ <br> --- </p> <p>- rffsp_pop_income_run_1.feather <br> - rffsp_pop_income_run_2.feather <br> - rffsp_pop_income_run_3.feather <br> . <br> . <br> . <br> - rffsp_pop_income_run_9999.feather <br> - rffsp_pop_income_run_10000.feather </p> <p>This folder contains 10,000 files in the .feather file format (https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/feather.html), which is optimized for I/O speed and compressed to minimize storage requirements. Each file corresponds to one draw of our socioeconomic data, and contains 4 columns: Country, Year, Pop, and GDP. The number in each filename corresponds to the "sample" column in the emissions data. For each row:</p> <p>- Country contains the ISO Alpha-3 code (https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html) of the country whose GDP and population are projected. <br> - Year contains the calendar year of the predictions. <br> - Pop contains the projected population for a given country and year, in units of thousands of people. <br> - GDP contains the projected GDP for a given country and year, in units of millions of 2011 USD. </p> <p>--- </p> <p>The probabilistic population projections were produced by Adrian E. Raftery and Hana Ševčíková (University of Washington), using the methods described by Raftery and Ševčíková (2021). Please cite this reference in any publications using these projections. Their research was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under NIH grant number R01 HD-070936. </p> <p>The probabilistic economic and emissions projections are from Rennert et al. (forthcoming), based in part on those from Müller, Stock, and Watson (forthcoming). </p> <p>---</p> <p><strong>References </strong></p> <p>Müller, U.K, Stock, J.H., and Watson, M.W. (forthcoming). An Econometric Model of International Growth Dynamics for Long-Horizon Forecasting. The Review of Economics and Statistics, available online 30 October 2020. URL: <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/rest_a_00997/97738/An-Econometric-Model-of-International-Growth">https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/rest_a_00997/97738/An-Econometric-Model-of-International-Growth</a> </p> <p>Raftery, A.E. and Ševčíková, H. (2021). Probabilistic population forecasting: Short to very long-term. International Journal of Forecasting, available online 7 October 2021. URL: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207021001394">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207021001394</a> </p> <p>Rennert, K., Prest, B.C., Pizer, W., Newell, R.G., Anthoff, D., Kingdon, C., Rennels, L., Cooke, R., Raftery, A.E., Ševčíková, H, and Errickson, F. (forthcoming). The Social Cost of Carbon: Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount Rates. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Available online 27 October 2021. URL: <a href="https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/the-social-cost-of-carbon-advances-in-long-term-probabilistic-projections-of-population-gdp-emissions-and-discount-rates/">https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/the-social-cost-of-carbon-advances-in-long-term-probabilistic-projections-of-population-gdp-emissions-and-discount-rates/ </a></p>
Data from: Behavioral adjustments in the social associations of a precocial shorebird mediate the costs and benefits of grouping decisions
<p>Animals weigh multiple costs and benefits when making grouping decisions. The cost-avoidance grouping framework proposes that group density, information quality, and risk affect an individual's preference for con- or heterospecific groups. However, this assumes the cost-benefit balance of a particular grouping is constant spatiotemporally, which may not always be true. Investigating how spatiotemporal context influences grouping choices is therefore key to understanding how animals contend with changing conditions. </p> <p>Changes in body size during development lead to variable conditions for individuals over short timescales that can influence their ecological interactions. Hudsonian godwits (Limosa haemastica), for instance, form a protective nesting association with a major predator of young godwit chicks, colonial short-billed gulls (<em>Larus brachyrhynchus</em>). Godwit broods may avoid areas of higher gull densities when chicks are susceptible to gull predation but likely experience higher risk from alternative predators as a result. Associating with conspecifics could allow godwits to buffer these costs but requires enough other broods with whom to group. </p> <p>To determine how age-dependent predation risk and conspecific density influence godwit grouping behaviors, we first quantified the time-dependent effects of con- and heterospecific interactions on the mortality risk for godwit chicks throughout development. We then determined how godwit density and chick age affected their associations with con- and heterospecifics. </p> <p>We found that younger godwit chicks' survival improved with closer association with conspecifics, earlier hatch dates, and lower gull densities, whereas older chicks survived better with earlier hatch dates, though this effect was less clear. Concomitantly, godwit broods avoided gulls early in development and when godwit densities were high but maintained loose associations with conspecifics throughout development. </p> <p>We identified how individuals can optimally shift with whom they group according to risks that vary spatially and temporally. Investigating the effects of a species' ecological interactions across spatiotemporal contexts in this way can shed light on how animals adjust their associations according to the costs and benefits of each association.</p>
Data from: Ornamentation is associated with social costs in male red-backed fairywrens (<em>Malurus melanocephalus</em>)
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Data from: Behavioral adjustments in the social associations of a precocial shorebird mediate the costs and benefits of grouping decisions
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Dataset: The role of social costs as a mechanism enforcing the honesty of ultraviolet-reflecting signals in a lizard
<p>Here are the data associated with the study entitled "The role of social costs as a mechanism enforcing the honesty of ultraviolet-reflecting signals in a lizard<strong>"</strong> authored by Anna Kawamoto, Jean-François Le Galliard, and Arnaud Badiane and published in <em>Biological Journal of the Linnean Society</em>.</p> <p>Four different data sets are provided and the Notes.xlsx file explains the content of these data sets.</p> <p>We also added three short videos showing typical lizards' behaviours scored in this study.</p> <p> </p>
Data from: Social living simultaneously increases infection risk and decreases the cost of infection
Elevated parasite infection risk is considered to be a near universal cost of social living. However, living in groups may also provide benefits that reduce the negative impacts of infection. These potential 'tolerance' benefits of living socially are theoretically possible, but have rarely been described. In this study, we used an anthelmintic treatment experiment in wild Grant's gazelles (Nanger granti), who are commonly infected with gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN), to show that social living confers both costs and benefits related to GIN parasitism. We show that although larger group size increases GIN infection risk, a key cost of GIN infection – the suppression of food intake − is simultaneously moderated by living in larger groups. Our findings help illuminate the complex role parasites play in the evolution of host social behavior.
Data from: The price of insurance: costs and benefits of worker production in a facultatively social bee
Kin selection theory is foundational in helping to explain the evolution of sociality; however, the degree to which indirect fitness benefits may underlie helping behavior in species of early stage sociality has received relatively little empirical attention. Facultatively social bees, which demonstrate multiple forms of social organization, provide prime systems in which to empirically test hypotheses regarding the evolutionary origins of sociality. The subsocial small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata, may establish a social nest by manipulating brood provisions to rear a worker daughter, which then assists in critical late-season alloparental care. Here, we combine nest demographic and behavioral data with genetic relatedness estimates to calculate the relative inclusive fitness of both subsocial and social reproductive strategies in C. calcarata. Social mothers benefit from improved likelihood of brood survivorship and have higher fitness than subsocial mothers. Worker daughters have low indirect fitness on average, and will not produce their own offspring. Among-sibling relatedness is significantly higher in social nests than subsocial nests, though mothers of either reproductive strategy may mate multiply. Though this study corroborates the ultimate role of indirect fitness and assured fitness returns in the evolution of social traits, it also offers additional support for maternal manipulation as the proximate mechanism underlying evolutionary transitions in early stage insect societies.
Experimentally-seeded social cues in the wild: Costs to bearers and potential benefits to receivers
<p>Conspecifics can provide social cues about the presence of key features of the surrounding environment, such as food or predators. Attending to social cues may therefore potentially benefit receivers, or at least be worth following. Yet, bearing social cues could also be costly, particularly if it increases the likelihood of close-range interaction with non-kin. Here, we experimentally-seeded social cues in the wild onto focal individuals of the social hermit crab (<em>Coenobita compressus</em>), testing (1) the 'potential benefits to receivers' hypothesis, which predicts that receivers will follow social cues to orient towards valuable resources, and (2) the 'costs to bearers' hypothesis, which predicts that bearers of social cues will experience direct (physical) costs or indirect (constrained movement) costs due to interaction with receivers. Consistent with hypothesis (1), in natural encounters, conspecifics that crossed paths frequently made antennal contact, potentially gathering social information at close range. In experiments, naïve conspecifics followed focal individuals bearing 'positive' social cues (about a valuable food resource) significantly more often than they followed individuals bearing less attractive ('neutral' or 'ambivalent') social cues, pointing to a potential benefit. Consistent with hypothesis (2), individuals bearing positive social cues incurred greater direct and indirect costs, being physically flipped more often and achieving shorter displacements compared to individuals bearing other social cues. We conclude that experimentally-seeded social cues in the wild can confer costs to bearers and potentially benefit receivers. Broadly, the costs of bearing social cues, revealed here, underscore the importance of not overlooking that social cues may be costly.</p>
The cost of noise: Stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments
<p>Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer punishment: when agents have an opportunity to sanction defectors, classical behavioral experiments suggest that cooperation can take root. Overlooked from standard experimental designs, however, is the fact that real-world human punishment---the administration of justice---is intrinsically noisy. Here we show that stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in the repeated public good game. As punishment noise increases, we find that contributions decrease and punishment efforts intensify, resulting in a 45% drop in gains compared to a noiseless control. Moreover, we observe that uncertainty causes a rise in antisocial punishment, a mutually harmful behavior previously associated with societies with a weak rule of law. Our approach brings to light challenges to cooperation that cannot be explained by economic rationality and strengthens the case for further investigations of the effect of noise---and not just bias---on human behavior.</p>
Data files for "Estimating a Social Cost of Carbon for Global Energy Consumption"
<p>Data files for "Estimating a Social Cost of Carbon for Global Energy Consumption".</p> <p>Findings of the paper can be replicated using these data files, along with code at https://github.com/ClimateImpactLab/energy-code-release-2020/.</p> <p> </p>
Data from: Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?
<p class="MsoNormal">In wild animals, injuries often arise from intraspecific contests, and therefore may reveal challenges and selection pressures related to social conflict. We evaluated whether known aggressive patterns predicted injury patterns in wild blue monkeys, in which most injuries of known cause resulted from conspecifics. After describing injuries and their causes in 12 groups monitored over 13 years, we compared injury distributions across age-sex class and season. Adult males were much more likely, adult females about equally likely, and immatures much less likely to sustain injuries relative to random expectation. Among adult males, injuries were most common in the mating season. Using multivariate models, we examined how individual, social, and demographic factors predicted injury rates in adult females and immatures. Rates were higher for adult females versus all immatures, for individuals in smaller groups, and for those living in groups frequently exposed to novel adult males and with few immature members. Among older juvenile and adult females, these trends persisted; additionally, pregnant and lactating females were injured less often than others, but there was no evidence that dominance rank influenced injury rates. For juveniles, injury rates increased similarly with age in both sexes, providing only limited evidence that heightened aggression motivates natal dispersal by males. Most findings supported the hypothesis that aggression increases injury risk. Costs of within-group aggressive competition may manifest in ways other than injury, however, especially for females. We highlight the importance in comparative analyses of considering both within- and between-group aggression and demographic variables as influencing injury risk. <span> </span></p>
Experimentally-seeded social cues in the wild: Costs to bearers and potential benefits to receivers
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Data from: Social living simultaneously increases infection risk and decreases the cost of infection
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Data from: Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?
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The cost of noise: Stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments
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Data from: The price of insurance: costs and benefits of worker production in a facultatively social bee
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Data from: The social cost of lobbying over climate policy
Domestic political processes shape climate policy. In particular, there is increasing concern regarding the role of political lobbying over climate policy. This paper examines how lobbying spending on the Waxman-Markey bill, the most prominent and promising U.S. climate regulation to date, altered its likelihood of being implemented. We combine data from comprehensive U.S. lobbying records together with an empirical method for forecasting the policy's effect on the value of publicly-listed firms. Our statistical analysis suggests that lobbying by firms expecting losses from the policy was more effective than lobbying by firms expecting gains. Interpreting this finding through a game-theoretic model, we calculate that lobbying lowered the probability of enacting the Waxman-Markey bill by 13 percentage points, representing an expected social cost of $60 billion (in 2018 dollars). Our findings also reveal how future climate policy proposals can be designed to be more robust to political opposition.
Data from: Social complexity influences brain investment and neural operation costs in ants
The metabolic expense of producing and operating neural tissue required for adaptive behaviour is considered a significant selective force in brain evolution. In primates, brain size correlates positively with group size, presumably owing to the greater cognitive demands of complex social relationships in large societies. Social complexity in eusocial insects is also associated with large groups, as well as collective intelligence and division of labour among sterile workers. However, superorganism phenotypes may lower cognitive demands on behaviourally specialized workers resulting in selection for decreased brain size and/or energetic costs of brain metabolism. To test this hypothesis, we compared brain investment patterns and cytochrome oxidase (COX) activity, a proxy for ATP usage, in two ant species contrasting in social organization. Socially complex Oecophylla smaragdina workers had larger brain size and relative investment in the mushroom bodies (MBs)—higher order sensory processing compartments—than the more socially basic Formica subsericea workers. Oecophylla smaragdina workers, however, had reduced COX activity in the MBs. Our results suggest that as in primates, ant group size is associated with large brain size. The elevated costs of investment in metabolically expensive brain tissue in the socially complex O. smaragdina, however, appear to be offset by decreased energetic costs.
Data from: Inclusive fitness benefits mitigate costs of cuckoldry to socially paired males
Background: In socially monogamous species, reproduction is not always confined to paired males and females. Extra-pair males commonly also reproduce with paired females, which is traditionally thought to be costly to the females' social partners. However, we suggest that when the relatedness between reproducing individuals is considered, cuckolded males can suffer lower fitness losses than otherwise expected, especially when the rate of cuckoldry is high. We combine theoretical modeling with a detailed genetic study on a socially monogamous wild fish, Variabilichromis moorii, which displays biparental care despite exceptionally high rates of extra-pair paternity. Results: We measured the relatedness between all parties involved in V. moorii spawning events (i.e. between males and females in social pairs, females and their extra-pair partners, and paired males and their cuckolders), and we reveal that males are on average more related to their cuckolders than expected by chance. Queller–Goodnight estimates of relatedness between males and their cuckolders are on average r = 0.038 but can range up to r = 0.64. This also increases the relatedness between males and the extra-pair offspring under their care. These intriguing results are consistent with the predictions of our mathematical model, which shows that elevated relatedness between paired males and their cuckolders can be adaptive for both parties when competition for fertilizations is strong. Conclusions: Our results show how cuckoldry by relatives can offset males' direct fitness losses with inclusive fitness gains, which can be substantial in systems where males face almost certain paternity losses.
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