Daniel McFadden

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**Daniel L. McFadden**
Photo:Berkeley Lab
Born	July 29, 1937 Raleigh, North Carolina
Residence	USA
Nationality	American
Field	Econometrics
Institution	University of California at Berkeley
Alma Mater	University of Minnesota
Doctoral Advisor	Leonid Hurwicz
Doctoral Students	Walter Erwin Diewert
Known for	Discrete choice
Notable Prizes	John Bates Clark Medal (1975) Frisch Medal (1986) Nobel Prize in Economics (2000)

Daniel L. McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an econometrician who won (jointly with James Heckman) the 2000 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "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 the University of California, 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.