Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty.

"code is available at https://github com/allisonmorgan/faculty_ses ."

"Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"We thank E. Colunga, B. Donovan, B. Fosdick, T. Harris-Tryon, H. Lamothe, R. Manduca, J. Pyne, S. Spielman, K. Spoon, J. Van Cleve and S. Way for helpful comments, and all survey participants for providing their valuable opinions and time. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (award No. SMA 1633791 to A.C.M., A.C., D.B.L. and M.G.), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (award No. FA9550-19-1-0329 to A.C., D.B.L., M.G. and N.L.), National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (award No. DGE 1650115 to A.C.M.) and California Center for Population Research at UCLA (CCPR), which receives core support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (grant No. P2C-HD041022 to J.E.B.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript."