We study how forcing financially distressed consumer debtors to repay a larger fraction of debt can lead them to …. Finally, we find that those debtors who misreported income had a lower probability of default on their debt repayment plans …

Whether concerned with kinship or with kula, anthropology's interest in credit and debt goes back to the very … debt's powerful nature and effects. Following Mauss, credit and debt are treated as an indissoluble dyad that contributes … surrounding credit and debt in various ethnographic settings as coconstitutive of their material effects …