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Daniel L. McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an
econometrics|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 Bachelor of Science|B.S. in Physics at
age 19, and a Doctor of Philosophy|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 because MIT did not have a statistics
department.  After his return, McFadden founded
the Econometrics Laboratory, which is devoted to
statistical computation for economics
applications.  He remains its director.

==See also==
* List of economists
* List of economics consultancies and think tanks

== External links ==
* http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/mcfadden/ Daniel
McFadden's homepage
*
http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/2000/index
.html 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics