Abstract
What factors account for the decision to marry exogamously in second marriages in a community with a long history of valuing endogamous marriage? That question is addressed by an analysis of a subsample of remarried Jewish respondents drawn from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey. While several demographic and family background factors: sex, denominational family background, religious education, year of marriage, and academic attainment are found to predict a first intermarriage, only two are significantly related to exogamy in remarriage: academic attainment and year of marriage. Surprisingly, academic attainment increases the likelihood of endogamy in first marriage, but exogamy in remarriage. The findings suggest that previous theories bearing on the subject require greater integration of structural, cultural, and interactionist assumptions about mate selection.
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