The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2000
Awarded on: 2000-10-11
"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA
Daniel L. McFadden
Born: 1937-07-29 in Raleigh, NC, USA
Gender: male
Field: American economist
Biography
Daniel Little McFadden 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". 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.