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Some traditional "explanations" of levels and trends in illegitimacy rates are reviewed. After discussing the four immediate causes of levels and trends in illegitimacy rates, we study the relationship between economic events and illegitimacy rates in developed nations. Trends in unemployment Some traditional "explanations" of levels and trends in illegitimacy rates are reviewed. After discussing the four immediate causes of levels and trends in illegitimacy rates, we study the relationship between economic events and illegitimacy rates in developed nations. Trends in unemployment are not related to illegitimacy trends; the level of wealth is not associated with high or low rates. In the 1950-1960 decade a strong negative relationship between the rate of economic growth and change in illegitimacy rates was documented for 11 early and 12 late marriage countries. A multivariate analysis, which included two demographic variables and economic growth rates, examined the direct and indirect effects of economic growth rates on illegitimacy rates. Analysis of the relationship of family of family allowance benefits and illegitimacy allowed us to reject the idea that the introduction of these programs has stimulated illegitimacy rates.

Abstract
This paper examines the effect of inequality and redistribution on growth in a panel of developed OECD countries with dynamic fixed effects (DFE) estimates. It is found out that redistribution is neutral to growth while disposable inequality is weakly positive for long-run aggregate output. Population growth is also a determinant of aggregate output. On the other hand, the analysis does not find evidence of a significant effect of both inequality and redistribution in the short-run as well as of top and bottom inequality. The analysis suggests that in economies that are more unequal a win-win process to increase equality and growth through redistributive taxes is likely to be effective, even if the overall effect is low and time demanding.
JEL classifications: O11, O15, O47, E62, H23
Keywords: Inequality, Redistribution, Growth

Perhaps never in the history of economic thought, and certainly not since the crash of 1929, has economic analysis lagged so far behind the demands of policy as it does at present. The elevation of economic development to the top ranks of policy issues, in under-developed and advanced countries alike, has caught professional economists more than ever unprepared to deal with the most pressing economic problem of the moment. One result of this unusually large inflationary gap between the demand for solid policy recommendations and the supply of them has been an unprecedented concentration of economists' effort on the study of economic growth. The technical assistance programmes under the United Nations, the International Cooperation Administration, the Colombo Plan, other bilateral programmes, and the Ford Foundation have given economists opportunities for "laboratory work" on a scale never before open to them. In the universities, too, more and more economists have redirected their interests in research towards economic development.