Daniel McFadden
Daniel L. McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an economist|econometrician who won (jointly with James Heckman) the 2000 Nobel Memorial 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 and received his B.S in Physics at age 19 from the University of Minnesota, where he later received a Ph.D in Behavioral Science (Economics) in 1962. In 1964, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley and focused his research in areas including choice behavior and the problem of linking economic theory and measurement. In 1977, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but he returned to Berkeley in 1991 because MIT did not a statistics department. After his return, he founded the Econometrics Laboratory (which is devoted to statistical computation for economics applications) and is its current director.
