Dataset for 'A genealogical approach to academic success'

Our genealogical data is drawn from the Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP), an online database developed as a historicalrecord of scientists with a Ph.D. in mathematics to keep track of mentor-mentee relationships. Each scientist is registered by a unique ID. The project also records the instituteand country where the Ph.D. degree was obtained, the year in which the degree was obtained, and, often, the title and subject classification of the thesis.We use this dataset to study whether ancestry size and ancestry diversity affects future academic success of scientists.