Areas of Research/Interest: Education; legal and institutional environments of schools; social stratification; student achievement and socialization; formal organizations; self employment.

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	Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study, Stanford University Press, 2007, coedited with Yossi Shavit and Adam Gamoran. Click here to buy.
	The Reemergence of Self-Employment : A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality, Princeton University Press, 2004, coedited with Walter Muller. Click here to buy.
	Judging School Discipline:  The Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2003) with Irenee Beattie, Richard Pitt, Jennifer Thompson and Sandra Way. Click here to buy.
	The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education, McGraw Hill, 2000, coedited with Irenee Beattie. Click here to buy.

Arum, Richard and Gary LaFree.  2008.  "Educational Attainment, Teacher/Student Ratios and Adult Incarceration Risk Among U.S. Birth Cohorts Since 1910," Sociology of Education 81/4.
 
Arum, Richard, Michelle Budig, and Josipa Roksa. 2008. "The Romance of College Attendance: Higher Education Stratification and Mate Selection," Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 26/2:107-122.
 
Stevens, Mitchell, Elizabeth Armstrong and Richard Arum.  2008. "Sieve, Incubator, Temple, Hub: Empirical and Theoretical Advances in the Sociology of Higher Education," Annual Review of Sociology. 34:127-152.
 
Guthrie, Doug, Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa and Sarah Damaske. 2008. "Giving to Local Schools: Corporate Philanthropy and the Receding Welfare State," Social Science Research 37: 856–873.
 
LaFree, Gary and Richard Arum.  2006.  "The Impact of Racially Segregated Schooling on the Risk of Adult Incarceration Rates Among U.S. Cohorts of African-Americans and Whites Since 1930," Criminology 44/1:77-108.

"Schools and Communities: Ecological and Institutional Dimensions," Annual Review of Sociology, 2000.  Click here to read.

"Labor Market Regulation and the Growth of Self-Employment," with Michelle Budig and Don Grant, International Journal of Sociology, 2000.

"High School Experience and the Risk of Incarceration," with Irenne Beattie, Criminology, 1999.  Click here to read.

“Invested Dollars or Diverted Dreams:  The Effects of Resources on Vocational Student Educational Outcomes,” Sociology of Education, 1998.  Click here to read.

“Do Private Schools Force Public Schools to Compete?” American Sociological Review, 1996.  Click here to read.