Daniel McFadden
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Daniel McFadden Net Worth

Daniel McFadden is an American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences co-recipient. He is known for developing the theory and methods of discrete choice to analyze the behavior of individuals or households in making decisions such as where to work, where to live, or when to marry. He has also designed and developed an early transistorized computer and an X-ray telescope. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California, where he studies basic problems of the health care sector. He has received numerous awards, including the John Bates Clark Medal, the Frisch Medal, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Economist
Birth Day July 29, 1937
Birth Place Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., United States
Age 86 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Leo
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, MIT, University of Southern California
Doctoral advisor Leonid Hurwicz
Doctoral students Walter Erwin Diewert Hal Varian John Rust Axel Börsch-Supan Vassilis Hajivassiliou Jonathan Feinstein Hidehiko Ichimura (ja)

💰 Net worth

Daniel McFadden, a renowned economist in the United States, is projected to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M in 2024. With a long and illustrious career in the field of economics, McFadden has made significant contributions to the study of individual choice and behavior, particularly in his groundbreaking work on discrete choice models. Throughout his career, he has been recognized for his expertise and has received numerous accolades, including the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000. As a highly respected figure in the economic community, his net worth reflects both his professional accomplishments and financial success.

Biography/Timeline

1962

McFadden was born 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.

1964

In 1964 McFadden joined the faculty of UC Berkeley, focusing his research on choice behavior and the Problem of linking economic theory and measurement. In 1974 he introduced Conditional logit analysis.

1975

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 remains its Director. He is a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security. In 2000 he won the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics.

2011

In January 2011 McFadden was appointed the Presidential Professor of Health Economics at the University of Southern California (USC), and the announcement of this appointment was published on January 10, 2011. McFadden will have joint appointments at the USC Price School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences to examine fundamental problems facing the health care sector, looking specifically at how consumers make choices about health insurance and medical services.

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