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+---
+language:
+- en
+license: mit
+task_categories:
+- tabular-classification
+tags:
+- economics
+- despairchasm
+- computational-economics
+- behavioral-economics
+- emerging-terminology
+pretty_name: Despairchasm Economics Dataset
+size_categories:
+- n<1K
+---
+
+# Despairchasm Economics Dataset
+
+## Dataset Description
+### Summary
+Synthetic 200-row dataset for `Despairchasm` measurement and computational experiments.
+
+### Supported Tasks
+- Economic analysis
+- Behavioral Economics research
+- Computational economics
+
+### Languages
+- English (metadata and documentation)
+- Python (code examples)
+
+## Dataset Structure
+### Data Fields
+- `id`: Unique observation id
+- `county_period`: Synthetic county-period panel key
+- `mortality_gap`: Gap in deaths-of-despair mortality rates
+- `income_divergence`: Divergence in household income trajectories
+- `employment_insecurity`: Precarity and instability in local labor markets
+- `mental_health_burden`: Aggregate mental-health stress burden
+- `substance_use_risk`: Risk intensity for problematic substance use
+- `social_mobility_block`: Barriers to upward social mobility
+- `community_resilience`: Protective local resilience capacity
+- `despairchasm_index`: Composite term index
+
+### Data Splits
+- Full dataset: 200 examples
+
+## Dataset Creation
+### Source Data
+Synthetic data generated for demonstrating Despairchasm 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{despairchasm2026,
+title={{Despairchasm Economics Dataset}},
+author={{Economic Research Collective}},
+year={{2026}}
+}