The results show that getting into further education at either education level does not increase the likelihood that men will form families.
These results challenge the common idea that education hinders family formation for women but helps men find a partner.
In fact, today, highly educated women in several high-income countries are more likely to form families than women with less education.
However, women born after 1975 who obtain higher education are more likely to form families than their peers with lower levels of education.
Our causal results show that increases in educational attainment raise the probability that women form families by their late thirties.

Education makes women, not men, more likely to have children