Daniel McFadden
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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".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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
[edit]McFadden was born on July 29, 1937, in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a B.S. in Physics, and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Science (Economics) five years later (1962). While at the University of Minnesota, his graduate advisor was Leonid Hurwicz, who was awarded the Economics Nobel Prize in 2007.<ref name = laureates>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
[edit]In 1964, McFadden joined the faculty of University of California, Berkeley, focusing his research on choice behavior and the problem of linking economic theory and measurement. In 1974, he introduced conditional logit analysis.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1975, McFadden won the John Bates Clark Medal. In 1977, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1981, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
He returned to Berkeley in 1991, founding the Econometrics Laboratory, which is devoted to statistical computation for economics applications. He is a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security. He won the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics in 2020 and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2006.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In January 2011, McFadden was appointed the Presidential Professor of Health Economics at the University of Southern California (USC), which entails a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Price School of Public Policy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Political views
[edit]In June 2024, 16 Nobel Prize in Economics laureates, including McFadden, signed an open letter arguing that Donald Trump’s fiscal and trade policies coupled with efforts to limit the Federal Reserve's independence would reignite inflation in the United States.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
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[edit]External links
[edit]- Daniel McFadden's homepage
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- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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- Economists from North Carolina
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- University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
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- People from Raleigh, North Carolina
- 20th-century American economists
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- Fellows of the Econometric Society
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- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Members of the American Philosophical Society