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degreeflation-economics

id int64 1 200	year int64 2.01k 2.03k	degree_requirement_intensity float64 0.09 0.96	credential_supply_pressure float64 0 0.89	skill_mismatch float64 0.09 0.79	wage_premium_decay float64 0.11 0.75	entry_barrier float64 0.05 0.8	underemployment_rate float64 0 0.66	skills_based_hiring float64 0.07 0.95	degreeflation_index float64 0.2 0.69
1	2,016	0.364704	0.508528	0.511375	0.391376	0.145446	0.461608	0.212586	0.429666
2	2,019	0.445126	0.425747	0.300941	0.511921	0.534088	0.462783	0.11297	0.478233
3	2,015	0.279295	0.466795	0.321945	0.365833	0.519418	0.349815	0.581601	0.381442
4	2,011	0.704038	0.330526	0.478347	0.177733	0.550974	0.436014	0.568627	0.459078
5	2,014	0.747426	0.695811	0.428294	0.611913	0.446869	0.462415	0.821029	0.547379
6	2,018	0.51194	0.44446	0.349139	0.441573	0.452033	0.410602	0.624106	0.433812
7	2,026	0.487888	0.290625	0.712323	0.310672	0.377019	0.312217	0.568271	0.42633
8	2,024	0.094798	0.281748	0.193894	0.126926	0.268582	0.129546	0.501386	0.205868
9	2,014	0.753511	0.588949	0.51806	0.471936	0.478446	0.330648	0.226086	0.562468
10	2,011	0.781309	0.49772	0.448277	0.196582	0.458266	0.372759	0.439659	0.488858
11	2,010	0.898343	0.751573	0.536763	0.609295	0.490107	0.404474	0.350712	0.640199
12	2,011	0.623536	0.472212	0.416458	0.191336	0.361154	0.253426	0.533067	0.412009
13	2,022	0.517806	0.416171	0.399265	0.352685	0.403155	0.473584	0.685732	0.42182
14	2,026	0.836054	0.481397	0.511999	0.27252	0.461573	0.263273	0.31938	0.51497
15	2,009	0.330559	0.483233	0.394074	0.274207	0.386396	0.311989	0.283478	0.393726
16	2,010	0.689589	0.586856	0.610354	0.537234	0.520841	0.46238	0.529846	0.5707
17	2,023	0.694327	0.266347	0.360997	0.320535	0.346207	0.40332	0.680763	0.406522
18	2,011	0.697354	0.566233	0.304344	0.257034	0.3665	0.423001	0.702087	0.440651
19	2,023	0.64485	0.345567	0.424998	0.526058	0.305595	0.376402	0.71419	0.436725
20	2,013	0.51591	0.485061	0.245699	0.405869	0.284856	0.258317	0.518712	0.386306
21	2,014	0.604382	0.410282	0.655089	0.329895	0.502449	0.375741	0.145064	0.521347
22	2,020	0.829655	0.477262	0.5462	0.336197	0.519429	0.499005	0.073497	0.583473
23	2,014	0.302881	0.490226	0.319505	0.667031	0.180573	0.516763	0.908817	0.378104
24	2,020	0.800073	0.486352	0.507876	0.570304	0.666752	0.447955	0.552337	0.581847
25	2,023	0.756522	0.428758	0.441133	0.354806	0.313037	0.523983	0.527328	0.484677
26	2,013	0.750161	0.535134	0.63622	0.652893	0.390605	0.551065	0.317627	0.604256
27	2,024	0.630581	0.402714	0.500233	0.467719	0.443395	0.489548	0.594686	0.489315
28	2,022	0.791624	0.375083	0.570348	0.25842	0.523862	0.37771	0.331559	0.517914
29	2,018	0.736888	0.580134	0.521565	0.280442	0.524704	0.315554	0.203016	0.537995
30	2,021	0.8598	0.634806	0.640504	0.541762	0.616109	0.376426	0.817934	0.597848
31	2,017	0.62632	0.461228	0.473662	0.434666	0.448555	0.383393	0.813411	0.459432
32	2,022	0.44963	0.390703	0.48773	0.45439	0.51735	0.307446	0.256876	0.462862
33	2,018	0.581445	0.428625	0.34824	0.577114	0.329848	0.273662	0.130895	0.46993
34	2,009	0.527914	0.521306	0.316746	0.549586	0.517722	0.425454	0.723292	0.462286
35	2,013	0.543883	0.679056	0.529317	0.345723	0.363488	0.331139	0.836677	0.454208
36	2,016	0.909452	0.797607	0.585461	0.466667	0.650915	0.58977	0.488983	0.671296
37	2,014	0.906581	0.530789	0.639209	0.300491	0.741336	0.548832	0.437347	0.625244
38	2,013	0.853169	0.562026	0.663961	0.428119	0.492116	0.27812	0.588582	0.561912
39	2,020	0.588509	0.564765	0.551984	0.450936	0.456229	0.658924	0.414638	0.549284
40	2,017	0.544361	0.489814	0.406002	0.450465	0.381633	0.484918	0.941339	0.43158
41	2,024	0.417762	0.347635	0.282371	0.391725	0.314268	0.206868	0.863084	0.31897
42	2,009	0.758157	0.343616	0.4818	0.288343	0.392422	0.362024	0.538166	0.459395
43	2,022	0.666266	0.305635	0.397187	0.146791	0.501459	0.536363	0.388082	0.449777
44	2,018	0.399226	0.6359	0.430776	0.319938	0.415845	0.28821	0.685212	0.413291
45	2,008	0.501347	0.557951	0.461409	0.482408	0.326097	0.61558	0.114879	0.521237
46	2,009	0.78571	0.683866	0.436605	0.548191	0.433274	0.409091	0.763486	0.541834
47	2,019	0.616421	0.429722	0.419921	0.228775	0.381965	0.497053	0.449593	0.44841
48	2,021	0.423937	0.48089	0.53517	0.35567	0.493947	0.208987	0.681246	0.416882
49	2,026	0.693573	0.491806	0.570607	0.2757	0.464156	0.40148	0.384357	0.50971
50	2,014	0.828972	0.594258	0.466702	0.357123	0.564811	0.326998	0.37464	0.553887
51	2,017	0.882307	0.447096	0.620523	0.358601	0.710506	0.451737	0.283885	0.608453
52	2,020	0.750604	0.676651	0.48723	0.416064	0.617301	0.550266	0.851131	0.558954
53	2,026	0.77131	0.731708	0.627927	0.345029	0.547821	0.231296	0.43315	0.569906
54	2,024	0.541001	0.611565	0.51244	0.447469	0.57162	0.458303	0.195015	0.550109
55	2,011	0.880131	0.46347	0.530923	0.253551	0.500396	0.188779	0.346177	0.515641
56	2,011	0.377291	0.610063	0.358222	0.511182	0.329993	0.332388	0.688818	0.412929
57	2,011	0.347974	0.442031	0.347195	0.425126	0.314238	0.265206	0.318465	0.385729
58	2,021	0.569501	0.610352	0.379945	0.556813	0.510649	0.412934	0.197736	0.535525
59	2,022	0.788893	0.767932	0.574742	0.371813	0.482803	0.490678	0.272609	0.609325
60	2,017	0.651895	0.41446	0.440199	0.236246	0.44937	0.267435	0.387385	0.444212
61	2,026	0.6577	0.44701	0.424537	0.462922	0.541433	0.397706	0.444259	0.503781
62	2,010	0.804005	0.690588	0.597678	0.580127	0.560331	0.528172	0.315382	0.644738
63	2,026	0.559998	0.524211	0.40677	0.315601	0.356824	0.364992	0.411589	0.445968
64	2,012	0.840347	0.652699	0.589839	0.435555	0.680304	0.208372	0.247614	0.608291
65	2,013	0.606034	0.295258	0.490532	0.320397	0.37384	0.347294	0.282949	0.443166
66	2,016	0.56971	0.590278	0.43389	0.686632	0.343203	0.4351	0.483639	0.515507
67	2,015	0.743687	0.334007	0.545486	0.414073	0.438578	0.408452	0.426039	0.503758
68	2,015	0.853178	0.598949	0.395288	0.47646	0.512672	0.305562	0.51697	0.543502
69	2,026	0.55453	0.500519	0.443271	0.289706	0.464507	0.217574	0.834632	0.40684
70	2,015	0.683456	0.479202	0.500176	0.356519	0.366582	0.398502	0.277928	0.500212
71	2,017	0.643374	0.418514	0.540121	0.355932	0.475167	0.440104	0.458121	0.494573
72	2,010	0.615778	0.578549	0.445177	0.373731	0.341652	0.250423	0.647524	0.445354
73	2,011	0.735682	0.447162	0.460356	0.524429	0.474466	0.413761	0.951802	0.485692
74	2,013	0.740911	0.833523	0.466302	0.704557	0.475448	0.452247	0.498656	0.615732
75	2,011	0.722264	0.477393	0.660971	0.352558	0.544312	0.343071	0.397124	0.541552
76	2,024	0.500786	0.314247	0.406966	0.309137	0.412145	0.397533	0.401202	0.412138
77	2,008	0.470025	0.494517	0.402541	0.402226	0.498155	0.416658	0.287353	0.470598
78	2,019	0.8991	0.623315	0.670837	0.433032	0.691322	0.581381	0.254751	0.67368
79	2,026	0.411517	0.125743	0.16418	0.27215	0.391969	0.41987	0.714798	0.294868
80	2,022	0.200255	0.50972	0.090653	0.358405	0.099366	0.340237	0.735392	0.262196
81	2,014	0.535067	0.418853	0.384286	0.526011	0.349442	0.341955	0.133125	0.468464
82	2,016	0.592271	0.596959	0.341661	0.445175	0.348356	0.213256	0.591193	0.438023
83	2,009	0.862759	0.378429	0.507812	0.290014	0.501077	0.44056	0.936595	0.483043
84	2,026	0.747066	0.541322	0.457967	0.495502	0.535367	0.28314	0.490889	0.528327
85	2,015	0.80901	0.664957	0.416134	0.620854	0.552212	0.455186	0.641072	0.582342
86	2,026	0.645301	0.409567	0.590186	0.470283	0.529659	0.473792	0.571517	0.520146
87	2,008	0.773411	0.629894	0.610225	0.156606	0.424154	0.405937	0.635104	0.512312
88	2,017	0.920552	0.648974	0.696152	0.466263	0.661324	0.483095	0.425582	0.661118
89	2,008	0.523261	0.274336	0.420239	0.376186	0.388417	0.312663	0.572062	0.394583
90	2,011	0.645596	0.698072	0.447441	0.454406	0.375705	0.229112	0.150603	0.524062
91	2,021	0.57896	0.360516	0.54366	0.280218	0.475121	0.32287	0.265845	0.463684
92	2,010	0.559194	0.428833	0.587174	0.437644	0.386061	0.412611	0.450455	0.483196
93	2,020	0.555237	0.595674	0.413514	0.269007	0.423734	0.357759	0.547753	0.448612
94	2,013	0.583107	0.500672	0.557716	0.442078	0.455797	0.423854	0.184563	0.527763
95	2,009	0.629694	0.639925	0.452167	0.543185	0.803111	0.505688	0.846327	0.562131
96	2,010	0.488754	0.486265	0.447174	0.500006	0.319611	0.408175	0.789381	0.427678
97	2,024	0.53008	0.73696	0.436044	0.751655	0.471935	0.558217	0.539323	0.568839
98	2,016	0.21594	0.120238	0.25533	0.158052	0.144406	0.255413	0.586725	0.209335
99	2,008	0.804382	0.461327	0.342777	0.349435	0.600207	0.386159	0.758005	0.488182
100	2,012	0.769492	0.758836	0.72255	0.315231	0.594359	0.584796	0.382979	0.6378

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Degreeflation Economics Dataset

Dataset Description

Summary

Synthetic 200-row dataset for Degreeflation measurement and computational experiments.

Supported Tasks

Economic analysis
Labor Economics research
Computational economics

Languages

English (metadata and documentation)
Python (code examples)

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

id: Unique observation id
year: Synthetic annual labor-education observation
degree_requirement_intensity: Intensity of formal degree requirements in vacancies
credential_supply_pressure: Pressure from growth in degree holders
skill_mismatch: Mismatch between required and utilized skills
wage_premium_decay: Decay in degree wage premium over time
entry_barrier: Barrier to labor market entry from credential screens
underemployment_rate: Share of graduates in below-skill jobs
skills_based_hiring: Adoption of skills-based hiring alternatives
degreeflation_index: Composite term index

Data Splits

Full dataset: 200 examples

Dataset Creation

Source Data

Synthetic data generated for demonstrating Degreeflation applications.

Data Generation

Channels are sampled from controlled distributions with correlated structure. The term index is computed from normalized channels and directional weights.

Considerations

Social Impact

Research-only synthetic data for method development and reproducibility testing.

Additional Information

Licensing

MIT License - free for academic and commercial use.

Citation

@dataset{degreeflation2026, title={{Degreeflation Economics Dataset}}, author={{Economic Research Collective}}, year={{2026}} }

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