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We analyze data from 927 remarried men and women to examine the association between spouses educational attainment, social class, and age in their first and current union. Applying marginal homogeneity models, we test two competing hypotheses: current unions of remarried people are more homogamous than their first unions (the learning-hypothesis) and remarried peoples current unions are less homogamous than their first unions (the marriage market hy-pothesis). With respect to education, the evidence supports the learning-hypothesis for remar-ried men, but not for remarried women. With respect to social class, the evidence supports neither the learning-hypothesis nor the marriage market hypothesis. Finally, with respect to age, we find, for both men and women, support for the marriage market hypothesis. We con-clude that the remarriage market may have become more beneficial to remarrying men to find a more educationally homogamous partner than their first partner. Moreover, greater age het-erogeneity of available spouses in the remarriage market appears to be an important determi-


nant of weaker age homogamy in remarriage.

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