Daniel McFadden

Daniel McFadden
McFadden in 2014
Born	(1937-07-29) July 29, 1937 (age 86)[1] Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Minnesota
Known for	Discrete choice
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (1975) Frisch Medal (1986) Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics (2000) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Econometrics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Southern California University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Leonid Hurwicz
Doctoral students	Axel Börsch-Supan Philip J. Cook Walter Erwin Diewert Jonathan Feinstein Donald J. Harris Fred Mannering John Rust Kenneth E. Train Hal Varian Clifford Winston
Academic background
Thesis	Factor Substitution in the Economic Analysis of Production (1962)

Daniel Little McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an American econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice".^[2] He is the Presidential Professor of Health Economics at the University of Southern California and Professor of the Graduate School at University of California, Berkeley.