Time Trends in Within-Person Variation - Germany

Linear coefficient of Year on Indexed Within-Person Variance

Model Number Model Description Life Satisfaction Domain Satisfactions (Pooled)
Model 1 No Controls -0.645
(0.065)***
-0.124
(0.081)
Model 2 Demographic Controls (Age, Sex, Migration) -0.702
(0.066)***
-0.096
(0.085)
Model 3 Demographics + Panel Tenure (Linear) -0.625
(0.061)***
-0.067
(0.070)
Model 4 Demographics + Panel Tenure (Factor) -0.619
(0.049)***
-0.176
(0.057)**
Model 5 New Respondents Only + Demographics -0.715
(0.233)**
-0.210
(0.219)
Model 6 Balanced Panel + Demographics -0.619
(0.121)***
-0.115
(0.086)
Model 7 Continuous Stayers Only + Demographics + Panel Tenure -0.511
(0.079)***
-0.134
(0.074)+
Note: Models 1-3 and 5-7 use the Unbalanced Panel. Model 4 uses panel tenure as a set of dummy variables rather than linear. Model 6 uses Balanced Panel. Standard Errors given in parentheses. Two-sided p-values, with significance labels: + p < 0.10, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.