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"In the social science world, it&amp;amp;#8217;s a well-known fact that people marry individuals with similar education levels, but no one ever understood why. Some ideas were: 1.) money (individuals assume the person will have similar earning power), 2.) similar lifestyle and hobbies or 3.) couples just happen to meet each other in class, or at work where a lot of people have the same level of education. No matter the background&amp;amp;#133;same education level! But in a study published in Journal of Human Capital, Gustaf Bruze, an economist in Denmark, decided to look at movie stars&amp;amp;#8217; marriages. Why movie stars? They, too, marry people with similar education backgrounds, yet it&amp;amp;#8217;s not because of money or lifestyle. Actors&amp;amp;#8217; earnings have nothing to do with education, and actors aren&amp;amp;#8217;t likely to meet their partners in school, or be cast in a movie together because of their PhDs (or GEDs), yet they tend to marry someone with similar educational backgrounds. &amp;amp;#8220;What [the data] says is that men and women have very strong preferences for nonfinancial partner traits correlated with education,&amp;amp;#8221; Bruze said. &amp;amp;#8220;And educational sorting would remain even if the tendency of men and women to work with colleagues of a similar educational background were to disappear or if the role of educational institutions as a meeting place for future husbands and wives were to disappear.&amp;amp;#8221; Interesting! Do you have the same educational background as your partner? If not, how many years of schooling separate you two? What kind of challenges does it present in your relationship, if any? More Ways to Get Glamour: Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage. Photo: WireImage"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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