Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch

We appreciate the helpful suggestions of two referees, Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Lee Breckenridge, William Collins, Patrick Flaherty, Lawrence Katz, Christopher Rohlfs, Stuart Rosenthal, Steven Ross, Jesse Rothstein, and of workshop participants at Boston University, the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York University, Northwestern University, the Rand Corporation, Syracuse University, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-Merced, University of Connecticut, University of Rochester, and the annual meetings of the American Economic Association and the Society of Labor Economists. Excellent research assistance was provided by Nahuel Costilla, Angelina Morris, Nelson Oliver, and Mingjie Sun. We thank the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• October 2, 2007