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Gender's Role in Manuscript Acceptance: Sex in the Journal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Carolyn R. Harper  and
Cleve E. Willis
Carolyn R. Harper
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Cleve E. Willis
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Abstract

Women authors fare poorly at the hands of referees in some economics journals, especially when the review process is not blind. Using data on the 155 manuscripts submitted to the NJARE for publication during the period 1984–88, we found no evidence of differential referee acceptance rates for manuscripts with female and male lead authors.

Thus it is quite possible that the name “Miss” transmits through the board or division some vibration which is not registered in the examination room.

Virginia Woolf

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Research Article
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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , April 1989 , pp. 58 - 62
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Copyright © 1989 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

The capable assistance of James Scanlon in data entry and the editorial suggestions of Julie Caswell, Dan Lass and two anonymous reviewers are acknowledged with appreciation. We are especially indebted to the current editor, James Dunn, for supplying the data for manuscripts submitted for the 1987–88 issues. The usual disclaimer applies.

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