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for higher education in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sweden, inequality rates for most other countries were largely stable or even increased—a conclusion that is consistent with the maximally maintained inequality (MMI) thesis. The direct and indirect effects of private funding tend to cancel each other out. They therefore conclude that there is probably more inclusion and less diversion under school expansion. The edited volume offers a good representation of the fourth generation of comparative stratification research that seeks to elucidate the extent to which organizational variation across countries affects intergenerational mobility and educational attainment. The detailed information about inequality of higher education in individual countries would be invaluable to comparative researchers with similar interests. However, without taking a truly comparative design, some of the findings are suggestive at best. Furthermore, without controlling for the importance of public examination results, high-school GPA, and/or class ranks, the stated effects of social origin may have been exaggerated. In fact, the inclusion of qualifying examination results and/or high school GPA in Australia, Switzerland, and the United States dramatically reduces the direct effects of social origin to non-significance. The lack of school career data in many countries may also limit our understanding of the dynamics of higher education and underestimate the relative success of certain non-traditional routes. One key feature of advanced industrial economies is the prolonged and protracted paths in educational trajectories during emergent adulthood, where the old rigid educational tracks have gradually dissolved and movements between school and work are becoming more common. It is unclear how variation of such flexibility across countries would affect educational inequality. Nonetheless, it is hopeful that building on current findings, future works that explore these issues would certainly enhance our understanding of the dynamic role of the family and how institutional arrangements (isomorphism and differentiation) condition inequality outcomes. INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY, AND LIFE COURSE