Daniel Little McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an American econometrician. He won the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. He won the prize "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice".^[1]

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Daniel McFadden
Born	(1937-07-29) July 29, 1937 (age 88) Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality	United States
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)
Scientific career
Fields	Econometrics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley, MIT, University of Southern California
Doctoral advisor	Leonid Hurwicz
Doctoral students	Walter Erwin Diewert Axel Börsch-Supan Jonathan Feinstein Donald J. Harris Hidehiko Ichimura [ja] Fred Mannering John Rust Kenneth E. Train Hal Varian Clifford Winston

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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.