Gender Sensitivity to Peer Math Ability : 9783639450330 : 07 Aug 2012 : Revision with unchanged content. College curriculum choices have strong effects on students' future incomes, with the highest salaries often going to math, science, and engineering (MSE) majors. Prior investigations suggest that both college environment and gender affect how students choose their curriculum. This begs the question: Do women and men chose their curriculum content with different sensitivity to college environment, and how does this affect their wage outcomes? This work examines the effects of peer math ability at college, total credits achieved in MSE, and GPA on the earnings of young college graduates, using survey data to track students from high school through college into the job market. Average quantitative SAT score of the school attended is used to determine if the ability of a student's peers has a significant effect on how many MSE credits the individual chooses. Evidence presented in this