Whatsnew

Author: arthurlw

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -823,6 +823,7 @@ Groupby/resample/rolling
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.resample` and :meth:`Series.resample` were not keeping the index name when the index had :class:`ArrowDtype` timestamp dtype (:issue:`61222`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.resample` changing index type to :class:`MultiIndex` when the dataframe is empty and using an upsample method (:issue:`55572`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.agg` that raises ``AttributeError`` when there is dictionary input and duplicated columns, instead of returning a DataFrame with the aggregation of all duplicate columns. (:issue:`55041`)
+- Bug in :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.agg` where applying a user-defined function to an empty DataFrame returned a Series instead of an empty DataFrame. (:issue:`61503`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.apply` and :meth:`SeriesGroupBy.apply` for empty data frame with ``group_keys=False`` still creating output index using group keys. (:issue:`60471`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.apply` that was returning a completely empty DataFrame when all return values of ``func`` were ``None`` instead of returning an empty DataFrame with the original columns and dtypes. (:issue:`57775`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.apply` with ``as_index=False`` that was returning :class:`MultiIndex` instead of returning :class:`Index`. (:issue:`58291`)