Who Marries Whom?

学歴同類婚の増加→不平等の拡大に関して、一つの根拠としてBrossfeld and Timm（2003）341-342から引用。太字は私によるもの。

H.-P. Blossfeld and A. Timm (Eds): Who Marries Whom? Educational Systems as Marriage Markets in Modern Societies Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

"What is the relevance of these structural changes for social inequality? Since education is the most important determinant of occupational success and it is connected with valuable cultural resources, an increase in the formation of couples with equally educated partners and educational homogamy implies a rise in social differences between couples and families in modern societies. Social inequality engendered in individuals' life courses is further enhanced through couple formation and marriage because individuals then pool their advantageous or less advantageous socioeconomic resources , respectively . An increase in homogamy therefore enhances the inter-household distribution of economic well-being as well as class and status in modern societies. This is particularly true when women's labor force participation is increasing and the whole family system moves from male breadwinner towards dual-earner structures (Blossfeld, Drobnic 2001). The cumulative advantage within some families and the growing status differentiation between families in the course of increasing educational homogamy is also very likely to lead to a growing inequality of opportunities among the children of the next generation. These processes have to be studied in more detail in the future."