Measures of inequality, assortative matching in the UK & the effect on within & between household inequality of increased marital sorting by education

不平等是在家庭层面衡量的，公共政策是基于这些衡量标准制定的。如果家庭将他们的资源全部集中起来，那么这种方法将准确地识别出社会群体之间的差距。如果不是这样，目前的不平等衡量方法可能会忽视家庭内部的差异，从而低估了问题。英国大学教育的参与率从20世纪90年代初的30%大幅增加到2014/15年的48%，其中女性的增幅最大（下议院图书馆2016年）。有可能越来越多的人正在寻找与自己教育水平相似的伴侣。这可能会导致家庭内部的不平等减少，因为夫妻双方的收入潜力相似，尽管减少不同措施之间的差异仍然值得研究。

Inequality is measured at the household level and public policy is based on these measures. Ifhouseholds pool their resources entirely then this measure will accurately identify disparitiesbetween groups in society. If not, current measures of inequality could understate the problem byignoring disparities within households. Participation in UK university education has increasedsubstantially from 30% in the early 1990s to 48% in 2014/15, the largest increases being amongwomen (House of Commons Library 2016). It is possible that more people are finding partners withsimilar levels of education to themselves. This could have caused inequality within households todecrease as earning potential of both partners is similar, which though reducing the disparitybetween measures is still worth investigating.