M. Kamrul Islam, Sherman Folland and Oddvar Martin Kaarbøe provide empirical support to the common belief that social capital helps people avoid stress related maladies.

Florence Jusot and Marta Menéndez develop and apply methods to measure the role of opportunities versus effort in creating inequalities in health.

Jean Guo, Setti Raïs Ali, and Lise Rochaix demonstrate how improvements in community social capital cause better community health.