The Pontus Roos Memorial Foundation, represented by the committee members Helen Roos and Tommy Andersson, have announce the winner of this year’s stipend.
Pontus Roos was a creative and resourceful person, firmly convinced that practical problems in the industrial and service sector could benefit from advanced economic analysis. The aim of the Foundation is to annually award a stipend to a PhD student or a young researcher in economics at Lund University.
This year’s stipend is awarded to Sarah Rosenberg with the motivation:
"Sarah Rosenberg’s project aims to fill a significant gap in our understanding of the long-term effects of breastfeeding by leveraging the random variation in birth timing around due dates. Her innovative approach will investigate whether births during Sweden's summer vacation, a period with potentially limited lactation support, lead to lower breastfeeding rates in the first three months of life. By using this variation as an instrumental variable, Sarah will estimate the long-run impacts of breastfeeding on children's health, education, and earnings. This research promises to provide more precise estimates and groundbreaking insights into the sustained benefits of breastfeeding, extending beyond early childhood into adulthood"
