Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales find in a working paper that once the value of a family's house falls to below 50 percent of its mortgage balance, the default rate rises to 17 percent, even among those who can afford to make payments. This to me shows how un-ruthless people are about default--about how responsible they feel to make their payments.
(ht to Leigh Ann Coates for pointing out the paper to me).
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