%0 Report
        %A Bruns, Stephan B.
%A Doucouliagos, Anthony
%A Doucouliagos, Chris
%A König, Johannes
%A Stanley, T. D.
%A Zigova, Katarina
        %T The Delayed Acceptance of Female Research in Economics
        %D 2025
        %8 2025 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 17649
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17649
        %X 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.
        %K social norms
%K economics journals
%K acceptance time
%K gender