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Daniel McFadden
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American economist
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Daniel L. McFadden is an American economist, statistician, and university teacher born in Raleigh in 1937. He has served as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, Berkeley. McFadden was educated at the University of Minnesota and worked under doctoral advisor Leonid Hurwicz. He resides in California and speaks English.
His research focuses on economics and econometrics. Notable works include *Foundations of Stated Preference Elicitation*, *Contingent Valuation of Environmental Goods*, and *Structural analysis of discrete data and econometric applications*. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society.
McFadden has received the John Bates Clark Medal, the Frisch Medal, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, and the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He has influenced doctoral students such as Hal Varian, Donald J. Harris, and W. Brian Arthur.
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- Works
- 12
Top works
- Joint estimation of freight transportation decisions under non-random sampling
- Production Economics : a Dual Approach to Theory and Applications
- Foundations of Stated Preference Elicitation
- Contingent Valuation of Environmental Goods
- Structural analysis of discrete data and econometric applications
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-07-29 ) July 29, 1937 (age 88) , Raleigh, North Carolina , U.S.
- 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)
- 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
- Thesis
- Factor Substitution in the Economic Analysis of Production (1962)
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2000
“for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Daniel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Raleigh
- Occupation
- statistician
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- University of Minnesota
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Leonid Hurwicz
- Field of work
- econometrics
- Image
- Daniel McFadden 01.JPG
- Residence
- California
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- date of birth
- 1937-07-29
- member of
- Econometric Society
- Commons category
- Daniel McFadden
- influenced by
- Leonid Hurwicz
- name in native language
- Daniel L. McFadden
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
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". 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.
Early life and education
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