Interview Details

Title & Link

Daniel L. McFadden – Interview - NobelPrize.org

Publish Date

December 13, 2000

Interviewees

Daniel McFadden, James Heckman

Interviewers

Adam Smith, Bertil Holmlund

Publisher

Nobel Foundation

Topics

Approaching economic enquiry

Collection and quality of data

Current research in healthcare

Experiments in economics

Growing up on a North Carolina farm

Impact of their studies on policy decisions

Impact of their work on policy-making

Influence of economics on other sciences

Learning from psychology and sociology

Replication of econometric studies

Role of data in empirical research

Role of econometrics

Transitioning from physics to economics

Use of experiments in economics

People Mentioned

Wassily Leontief

Works Mentioned

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Places Mentioned

Lindau, Germany

University of California at Berkeley

University of Chicago

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