«Our next step is to perform a health -
economic analysis to show that the reduction in multiple pregnancy rates results does indeed result in a financial benefit for the government, so that the refunding of six cycles is still a
responsible policy,» said
Professor Thomas D'Hooghe, last author of the paper and head of the Leuven University Fertility Center.
«Air pollution is an immediate problem that is directly linked to many of the
economic, energy - related activities that are also
responsible for greenhouse gases,» added the study's other co-author, Valerie Karplus, the Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant
Professor of Global Economics and Management in MIT's Sloan School of Management.