Daniel McFadden

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**Daniel L. McFadden** <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:McFadden.jpg
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Born	July 29, 1937 Raleigh, North Carolina <tr><th>Residence</th><td>Image:Flag of the United States.svg USA</td></tr><tr><th>Nationality</th><td>Image:Flag of the United States.svg American</td></tr><tr><th>Field</th><td>Econometrics</td></tr><tr><th>Institution</th><td>University of California, Berkeley</td></tr><tr><th>Alma Mater</th><td>University of Minnesota</td></tr><tr><th>Academic Advisor</th><td>Leonid Hurwicz</td></tr><tr><th>Notable Students</th><td>Walter Erwin Diewert</td></tr><tr><th>Known for</th><td>Discrete choice</td></tr><tr><th>Notable Prizes</th><td>John Bates Clark Medal (1975) Frisch Medal (1986) Nobel Prize in Economics (2000)</td></tr>

Daniel L. McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an econometrician who won (jointly with James Heckman) the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice". He is currently the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

McFadden was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a B.S. in Physics at age 19, and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Science (Economics) five years later (1962). In 1964, he joined the faculty of UC Berkeley and focused his research in areas including choice behavior and the problem of linking economic theory and measurement. He won the John Bates Clark Medal in 1975. In 1977, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but returned to Berkeley in 1991. After his return, McFadden founded the Econometrics Laboratory, which is devoted to statistical computation for economics applications. He remains its director.