While much empirical work concerns job tenure, this paper introduces the concept of school tenure - the length of time … one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort … longer own school tenure but suffer from that of their peers. Using the number of times the student moved school during the …

Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate … whether, conditional on absolute achievement, within school-cohort rank in English and math affects choice of college major … large as the effects of absolute performance in math and English. We identify subject choice in school as an important …