TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bruns, Stephan B.
AU  - Doucouliagos, Anthony
AU  - Doucouliagos, Chris
AU  - König, Johannes
AU  - Stanley, T. D.
AU  - Zigova, Katarina
        TI  - The Delayed Acceptance of Female Research in Economics
        PY  - 2025/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17649
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17649
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - social norms
KW  - economics journals
KW  - acceptance time
KW  - gender
        ER  -