When asked why they don’t get married, low-income couples say that there is an “economic bar to marriage.” We used data from a survey of a sample of 4,444 unmarried, low-income parents to see how couples who met a set of economic achievements – what we call “the economic bar to marriage” – were more likely to marry. Our results showed that low-income parents who met the economic bar to marriage were 47 percent more likely to marry than couples who did not.