---
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}}
}