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    Ralph Ploeger, Julie Lawson & Marco Bontje

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Ploeger, R., Lawson, J. & Bontje, M. The methodological challenge to comparative research. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 16, 1–5 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011520920182

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