Table 5.

Sensitivity Analyses

Specification	Pubs in Yrs 1–5	Citations in Yrs 1–5	NIH funding in Yrs 6–10 (/$100,000)
(1) Baseline	0.79 (0.98)	33.79 (62.18)	6.48** (1.79)
(2) No covariates	−2.29 (1.51)	−79.20 (73.80)	4.57** (2.03)
(3) Including Institutes with Few Grants or Higher Error Rates	0.84 (0.98)	33.10 (62.41)	6.73** (1.82)
(4) Restricting Sample to Institutes with Lower Error Rates	0.45 (1.21)	5.36 (80.40)	7.43** (2.12)
(5) Dropping Observations at Cutoff	0.62 (0.91)	7.65 (59.24)	6.49** (1.68)
(6) Using Observations within 100 Points of Cutoff	0.67 (2.72)	353.93** (177.08)	14.62** (4.84)
(7) Using Observations within 150 Points of Cutoff	0.81 (1.44)	61.64 (90.63)	6.03** (2.58)
(8) Using Observations within 250 Points of Cutoff	0.63 (0.72)	−9.17 (45.73)	5.46** (1.33)
(9) Using Observations within 300 Points of Cutoff	0.68 (0.57)	−45.15 (36.75)	4.21** (1.03)
(10) Including only linear term in the rating	−0.30 (0.66)	−164.06** (44.03)	0.04 (1.30)
(11) Including 3rd order polynomials in the rating	0.14 (1.86)	85.65 (120.56)	7.42** (3.37)
(12) Only using Variation Attributable to Cutoff	1.00 (1.03)	43.10 (66.10)	6.90** (1.87)

Notes: The specifications are identical to those in Table 3 except as indicated.

^**indicates statistical significance at the 5 percent level;

^*indicates significance at the 10 percent level.