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What was corrected
The article cited a Benartzi-Thaler 2004 Journal of Consumer Research study, an Abraham-Spletzer 2009 unemployment-duration finding, a Lusardi-Tufano 2015 Journal of Consumer Affairs study, an Urban Institute Financial Health Network causal ,000 effect, and an almost-always-correct debt-versus-savings rule.
Fixed each citation to the correct authors, journals, and study topics, reframed the ,000 finding as correlational, separated the two named organizations, and qualified the debt-versus-savings guidance.
Why this is better
The studies exist but were attributed to the wrong journals or topics, and some claims were stated more causally or absolutely than the evidence supports. Corrections fix the citations and scope the claims rather than adding new sources.
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