People tend to pick spouses with similar educations. And movie stars do, too, despite additional options of wealth and fame. Karen Hopkin reports The tabloids love a good celebrity romance. But so do scientists. One has even used movie stars as models for understanding why people tend to marry partners with similar levels of education. The star-studded study appears in the Journal of Human Capital. [Gustaf Bruze, Marriage Choices of Movie Stars: Does Spouse’s Education Matter?] There are any number of reasons why individuals might wed their academic equals. The simplest being that they actually meet each other in school. It could also be that people with similar educational backgrounds wind up side by side in the workplace. Or maybe we’re more comfortable with someone whose earning potential is in our ballpark. To sort through the possibilities, Gustaf Bruze, an economist in Denmark, looked to the Big Screen. Thespians, he found, also tend to marry people with the same level of learning. So Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes each have formal education equivalent to completion of high school. Now, actors don’t usually meet their partners in school, and they’re not cast in movies based on their diplomas. Nor does their education level correlate with their box office earnings. So it can’t be about happenstance or about finance. Maybe it’s just that people with the same sort of education like the same movies—in this case, the ones they’re in.

人們傾向于尋找擁有相同文化背景的配偶。電影明星也是如此，雖然他們也會(huì)考慮財(cái)富和名聲等因素。Karen Hopkin 報(bào)道道。
小報(bào)喜歡名人的浪漫故事。科學(xué)家也是如此。一位科學(xué)家甚至用電影明星作為例子探究為什么人們趨向于跟與教育背景相似的人結(jié)婚。這項(xiàng)有關(guān)明星的研究結(jié)果發(fā)表在人類資本（Human Capital）的雜志上。（古斯塔夫•布魯茲，“電影明星的婚姻選擇：配偶的教育重要嗎？”）有很多原因可以解釋為什么人們會(huì)選擇與自己文化背景相當(dāng)?shù)娜?。最可能的原因是他們?cè)谏蠈W(xué)時(shí)認(rèn)識(shí)的。也有可能教育背景相似的人工作在同一個(gè)崗位上，相互有接觸的機(jī)會(huì)。或者是可能當(dāng)跟我們收入相當(dāng)?shù)娜讼嗵?，我們?huì)感到很舒服。為了從眾多可能性中找出最符合的，丹麥經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家古斯塔夫•布魯茲，從更寬的角度來(lái)看這個(gè)問(wèn)題。他發(fā)現(xiàn)演員們也傾向于與與自己文化背景類似的人結(jié)合。湯姆•克魯斯和凱蒂•霍爾莫斯就是很好的例子，他們都是高中畢業(yè)的?，F(xiàn)在演員們通常不是在學(xué)校認(rèn)識(shí)的，他們也不是根據(jù)他們的文憑而演對(duì)應(yīng)的角色。他們的受教育水平也和收入無(wú)關(guān)。所以這不可能是碰巧或者因收入而造成的。很可能擁有相同文化背景的人喜歡同一類型的電影，在這種情況下，他們都會(huì)選擇演那個(gè)電影。