Gary Kleck

Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Eppes Hall

112 S. Copeland Street

Tallahasse, FL 32306-1206

United States

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Did Australia’s Ban on Semiauto Firearms Really Reduce Violence? A Critique of the Chapman et al. (2016) Study

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 14 May 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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What Do CDC's Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Defensive Gun Use, Centers for Disease Control

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How the Hemenway Surveys Distorted Estimates of Defensive Gun Use Frequency

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2018
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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The Effect of Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime Rates: A Critique of the Donohue et al. (2018) Analysis

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3589
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 14 Jul 2008
Tomislav Victor Kovandzic, Mark E. Schaffer and Gary Kleck
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Department of Justice Sciences, Heriot-Watt University - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation and Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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crime, homicide, gun levels, endogeneity

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The Uses of Selective Spin in Reporting Gun Research Findings: Comment on Luca, Malhotra, and Poliquin (2017)

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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firearms waiting periods

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The Impact of Right-to-Carry (RTC) Laws on Crime Rates: Comments on Aneja et al. (2014)

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Gun control laws; Violence

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Cherry-Picking Spikes in Gun Sales: Comment on Levine and Mcknight (2017)

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2018
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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gun accidents, gun sales

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Interstate Gun Movement Is Almost Entirely Due to Migration, Not Gun Trafficking

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Dec 2018
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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The Impact of the Repeal of Missouri’s Handgun Permit Law on Homicide: Comment on Webster et al. (2014)

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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gun control, permit-to-purchase

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Irrelevant Tests of the Self-Protective Value of Firearms: Comments on Branas et al. (2009)

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 12 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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firearms, self-protection

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Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5357
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 24 Jan 2006
Gary Kleck, Tomislav Victor Kovandzic and Mark E. Schaffer
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama at Birmingham - Department of Justice Sciences and Heriot-Watt University - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation
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Crime, homicide, gun levels, endogeneity, GMM, counties

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The Hazards of Data-dredging in Gun Control Research: Comment on Webster et al. (2020)

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Mar 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Do Mass Shooters Prefer Large-Capacity Magazines?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 05 Apr 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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mass shootings, laarge-capacity magazines

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Do Wounded Criminals Get Medical Treatment?

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Apr 2020
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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gunshot wounds, medical treatment

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The Impact of Firearm Levels on Homicide Rates: The Effects of Controlling for Cultural Differences in Cross-National Research

Number of pages: 32
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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The Prevalence of Defensive Gun Use: Possible Sources of Error and the Results of 21 National Surveys

Number of pages: 37
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Do Higher Gun Ownership Levels Reduce Community Feelings of Safety?

Number of pages: 16
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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gun levels, fear

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The Small Arms Survey Methods for Estimating National Civilian Firearm Totals: An Assessment

Number of pages: 7
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Small Arms Survey

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Unemployment and Crime: Explaining the Apparent Nonrelationship

Number of pages: 33
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Rates of Compliance with Universal Background Check Gun Laws

Number of pages: 10
Gary Kleck
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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universal background checks, gun control