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.

人们倾向于寻找拥有相同文化背景的配偶。电影明星也是如此，虽然他们也会考虑财富和名声等因素。Karen Hopkin 报道道。
小报喜欢名人的浪漫故事。科学家也是如此。一位科学家甚至用电影明星作为例子探究为什么人们趋向于跟与教育背景相似的人结婚。这项有关明星的研究结果发表在人类资本（Human Capital）的杂志上。（古斯塔夫•布鲁兹，“电影明星的婚姻选择：配偶的教育重要吗？”）有很多原因可以解释为什么人们会选择与自己文化背景相当的人。最可能的原因是他们在上学时认识的。也有可能教育背景相似的人工作在同一个岗位上，相互有接触的机会。或者是可能当跟我们收入相当的人相处，我们会感到很舒服。为了从众多可能性中找出最符合的，丹麦经济学家古斯塔夫•布鲁兹，从更宽的角度来看这个问题。他发现演员们也倾向于与与自己文化背景类似的人结合。汤姆•克鲁斯和凯蒂•霍尔莫斯就是很好的例子，他们都是高中毕业的。现在演员们通常不是在学校认识的，他们也不是根据他们的文凭而演对应的角色。他们的受教育水平也和收入无关。所以这不可能是碰巧或者因收入而造成的。很可能拥有相同文化背景的人喜欢同一类型的电影，在这种情况下，他们都会选择演那个电影。