Anybody not saying the stock market is a moron.

Well, so long as your portfolio is properly diversified and you don't pussy out when prices crash. That's when you're supposed to buy, fuckwads.

You can make this a point of you focusing on the micro economy, but what is the macro economy made up of?

That's just not a correct question to ask.

What's the difference between Hitler and the Boston bombers?

The Boston bombers could actually end a race.

What's eight inches long, red and makes my girlfriend cry when I put it in her mouth?

Who are the worlds fastest readers?

What's the first thing you do after you rape a deaf girl?

but remember my answer? One word.

How are you failing to grasp that this is exactly what made it such a stupid, poor answer?

Three pregnant women are knitting sweaters for their babies at the OB/GYN waiting room.

The first one takes a pill out of her purse and says, "I want my baby to have a strong nervous system, so I'm taking a folate pill."

The second one takes a pill out of her purse and says, "I want my baby to have healthy blood, so I'm taking an iron pill."

The third one takes a pill out of her purse and says, "This is thalidomide."

The other two women look in horror. "WHY?!"

The third one calmly replies, "I just fucked up the sleeves on this sweater."

...

That's on the same level as my answer, only more explaining.

You basically just said "It's the same but better".

Think before you speak.

What's the difference between an ISIS training camp, and a school?

Next time specify if you want a specific kind of answer.

Oh my God, fuck off.

the jellyfish is my favorite animal

Jellyfish are fucking evil. They should be exterminated.

Cool. Will start checking the local public library first, then the college library and finally amazon.

A couple of those are online pdfs, do a google search first of all.

Get my A-level results August 13.

Probably fucked them up.

Lol.

1. The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

Basically, in early 2008, Oregon opened up a waiting list for its Medicaid programme to low-income adults who had previously failed to attain enrolment. 90,000 people applied for 10,000 openings, creating a beautiful natural experiment, allowing economists to study the effects of Medicaid coverage. Oregon used a lottery to allocate the places.

Four papers were eventually released enumerating the effects: the first studied self-reported health, healthcare utilisation and medical debt; the second dealt with clinical outcomes; the third with emergency department use; and the fourth with labour market outcomes.

The chief findings of these studies were that:

An increase in healthcare utilisation, namely though higher hospitalisation rates, emergency-dept. visits, outpatient visits, prescription drug use and and preventative-care use.

Decreased financial strain through fewer medical debts, and a virtual elimination of bank-breaking out-of-pocket payments.

Improved self-reported health and lower rates of depression, but no impact on actual physical health outcomes.

No effect on employment or earnings.

2. The effect of military service on lifetime earnings

Josh Angrist's PhD thesis tried to test how military service impacted people's lifetime earnings. This is notoriously difficult to measure, since certain personality traits which lead to people joining the army in the first place could also cause a propensity for lower earnings later in lifetime.

So Angrist used the draft during the Vietnam War as a natural element and analysed the results. He found that, among white men, serving in the army reduced lifetime income by 15pc.

3. The impact of the minimum wage in New Jersey's fast food industry

I'll just quote their abstract for this one: “On April 1, 1992, New Jersey's minimum wage rose from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour. To evaluate the impact of the law we surveyed 410 fast-food restaurants in New Jersey and [neighbouring] eastern Pennsylvania before and after the rise. Comparisons of employment growth at stores in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (where the minimum wage was constant) provide simple estimates of the effect of the higher minimum wage”.

4. The impact of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic on the post-1940 US population

Douglas Almond sought to test the Barker hypothesis, which claims that a foetus's prenatal environment may have an impact on their health decades into their life. During the time that Spanish Flu impacted the US, 33pc of all women of childbearing age contracted it.

Using U.S. Census data collected in 1960, 1970 and 1980 which identifies the individuals’ place and time of birth, Almond found that individuals who were in utero during the pandemic had, on average, increased rates of physical disability (pictured below), reduced educational attainment, and lower income and socioeconomic status.

5. The effect of Ramadan on children in utero

Another one from Almond. During Ramadan, there is a high compliance rate among pregnant Muslims, despite the fact that many Islamic scholars claim Ramadan is not obligatory for such women. Conducting a study on children aged 7, Almond found that children whose pregnancies overlapped with Ramadan performed worse in maths, reading and writing. The effects were most significant among children whose first three months of gestation overlapped with Ramadan.

6. The effects of the 1944-45 Dutch famine on children in utero

Official rations in occupied Netherlands during this period dropped to as low as 500 calories a day, and 20,000 people died of starvation. The west of the country was harshly effected, while the north and south escaped the worst of it. This allowed researches to study the effects of famine on prenatal development; the results were higher rates of diabetes, schizophrenia and obesity in later life.

7. The impact of mass immigration on Miami's labour market

Most economists agree that the average American would be better off if more low- and high-skilled immigrants were allowed to move into the US, but this faces considerable popular push-back in the US and Europe. David Card analysed the effects of the Mariel Boatlift, wherein 125,000 Cubans arrived in the US between April and September 1980.

This caused the Miami labour force to grow by 7pc, and yet Card found that this large increase in unskilled labour didn't impact the employment prospect or earnings of native unskilled labour in the Miami area.

8. The effect of class sizes on performance in Israel

Joshua Angrist returns, and this time he's studying the effects of an 800-year-old Israeli law. The rule is derived from the teachings of Maimonides, who said: "Twenty-five children may be put in charge of one teacher. If the number in the class exceeds twenty-five but is not more than forty, he should have an assistant to help with the instruction. If there are more than forty, two teachers must be appointed." A strict application of this rule would mean that a school with eighty students would have two classes of forty, while a school of eighty-one would have three classes of twenty-seven.

This has created sharp discontinuities in Israeli class size, so Angrist used this to study the effects of class size on performance. He found that reductions in class size improved maths and reading scores for fifth graders, improved reading scores for fourth graders and had no effect on third graders.

9. The impact of MTV's "16 and pregnant" on teenage pregnancy

Phillip Levine and Melissa Kearney drew on Google and Twitter trends, and found that searches and tweets about birth control and abortion spiked when the show was being aired and in areas where it was popular. They found that the show resulted in a 5.7pc reduction in teen pregnancies between June 2009 and the end of 2010, which can account for 33pc of the total reduction in teen pregnancy during this period.