Daniel McFadden

Daniel L. McFadden was born the July 29th 1937. This econometrician received in 2000, with James Heckman, the " Nobel Prize of économie". The jury rewarded his contribution with the theories and methods of the analysis for the discrete choices. He is currently professor with the university of Berkeley.

McFadden is born in Raleigh in North Carolina. It obtains Bachelor de Science in physics with old 19 years to the Université of Minnesota then PhD of philosophy in behavioral sciences (economy) 5 years later in 1962. In 1964, it integrates the Université of Berkeley in California, and focuses its research on the behaviors of choice, and the bonds between the economic theory and the economic measures. In 1975, it is rewarded by the medal John Bates Clark. In 1977, it goes to the Massachusetts Institute off Technology, but goes back to Berkeley in 1991 because MIT did not have a department of statistics. After its return, it founds the laboratory of econometrics, which is devoted to statistical data processing applied to the economy.

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