Larry Kenny received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1977. He joined the Florida faculty in 1975, and has served the Department as Chairman from 1991 until 1997. He has also served as a Visiting Scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Kenny has published widely on many public policy issues, examining the determinants and effects of term limits, explaining the voting behavior of legislators, estimating the impact of voting rights legislation, and examining how U.S. inflation and tax policies are determined. Professor Kenny has also investigated the decline in the number of school districts, economies of scale in schooling, geographical differences in teacher salaries, private schooling, and the effects of competition and government intervention on school efficiency.