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Daniel McFadden

American economist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1937 · age 89

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".

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2015Honorary Doctor of the Cergy-Pontoise UniversityAward2001Honorary Doctor of the Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyAward2000Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in EconomicsAwardPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred NobelAward1986Frisch MedalAward1975John Bates Clark MedalAward1970Fellow of the Econometric SocietyAward1937Born29 July 1937

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Honorary Doctor of the Cergy-Pontoise University2015
Honorary Doctor of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology2001
Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics2000
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2000
Frisch Medal1986
John Bates Clark Medal1975
Fellow of the Econometric Society1970
Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fisher-Schultz Lecture

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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.

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Born 1937 · age 89