TABLE 3.

PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING (PSM) ESTIMATES OF THE IMPACT ON OUTCOMES BY COMPARATIVE FUNDING-STATUS TYPES

VARIABLES	Number RPG Awards	Number RPG Applications	Probability RPG	Probability R01	Never RPG
Reach vs. Not Funded	0.174***	0.801***	0.071***	0.078***	−0.119***
N = 5,215	[0.043]	[0.167]	[0.017]	[0.015]	[0.018]
Reach vs. In Order	−0.096*	−0.495**	−0.050**	−0.038*	0.063**
N = 9,062	[0.048]	[0.183]	[0.018]	[0.016]	[0.019]
Reach vs. Skip	−0.176**	−0.333	−0.051**	−0.047**	0.025
N=2,538	[0.063]	[0.220]	[0.019]	[0.017]	[0.022]
Skip vs. Not Funded	0.243***	0.655***	0.085***	0.083***	−0.083***
N=5,211	[0.053]	[0.181]	[0.019]	[0.016]	[0.021]
Skip vs. In Order	−0.047	−0.342*	−0.051**	−0.025	0.069***
N=9,058	[0.048]	[0.165]	[0.016]	[0.014]	[0.019]
In Order vs. Not Funded	0.246***	0.983***	0.106***	0.086***	−0.140***
N = 11.735	[0.034]	[0.153]	[0.012]	[0.010]	[0.014]

Note: Robust Standard errors in brackets.

^***p<0.001,

^**p<0.01,

^*p<0.05

Source: Authors’ calculations. IMPACII andNIH/NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates, 1996 to 2008.