@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp17649,
            	author={Bruns, Stephan B. and Doucouliagos, Anthony and Doucouliagos, Chris and König, Johannes and Stanley, T. D. and Zigova, Katarina},
            	title={The Delayed Acceptance of Female Research in Economics},
            	year={2025},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={17649},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17649},
	abstract={We investigate gender differences in the time taken to accept empirical articles. On average, female-authored economics articles take notably longer to accept. Acceptance delay is nine weeks longer when solo-authored and five weeks longer for all female teams. This gender gap cannot be attributed to differences in author affiliation, research productivity, research quality and novelty. Female-authored articles are of higher quality, as measured by citations, reflecting higher research thresholds for female-authored work. The gender composition of editorial boards does not affect acceptance time for female authors. Nevertheless, this gender gap narrows as female representation in an area of  research deepens.},
	keywords={social norms;economics journals;acceptance time;gender},
            }