ABSTRACT
A growing body of research points to the far-reaching economic and demographic implications of religious intermarriage. Several studies find that interfaith marriages are at a higher risk of divorce than intrafaith unions. Lehrer and Chiswick (1993, p. 398) report that, depending on the specific religious group involved, the probability that a homogamous couple would see their union dissolved before their fifth anniversary:
ranges between 0.13 and 0.27; for heterogamous couples, the probability ranges from 0.24 for the most stable intermarriages to 0.42 for the least stable. With the exception of age at marriage, changes in none of the other variables considered here produce such a large variation in the probability of marital dissolution.
