de Bel, V. (2026). Too much for the Dutch? How the Dutch baby boom affected kinship size in 2018. N-IUSSP. https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/too-much-for-the-dutch-how-the-dutch-baby-boom-affected-kinship-size-in-2018/

Bras, H., & de Bel, V. (2025). The end of endogamy? Two centuries of kin marriage in The Netherlands (1812-2021). Quaderni Storici, (1), 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1408/119356

de Bel, V., Danielsbacka, M., Jokela, M., Rotkirch, A., & Tanskanen, A. O. (2025). Adult Children’s Timing of Entry into Parenthood: Parental Investment, Education, and Gender. Human Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-025-09502-z

de Bel, V., Potarca, G., & van Duijn, M. (2025). “Fault Lines” and Substitution in the Family Network: Contact Between Children, Mothers, Fathers, and Maternal and Paternal Grandparents in Divorced and Non‐Divorced Families. Personal Relationships, 32(2), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.70017

de Bel, V., Bokányi, E., Hank, K., & Leopold, T. (2025). A parallel kinship universe? A replication of Kolk et al. (2023) with Dutch register data on kinship networks. Demographic Research, 52, 915–938. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2025.52.28

Vacchiano, M., de Bel, V., & Widmer, E. (2025). Being Your Own Boss: Network Determinants of Young People’s Orientations Towards Self-Employment. Social Indicators Research, 176(1), 195–217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03443-3

de Bel, V., & Widmer, E. D. (2024). Zonder wrijving geen glans? Mens & Maatschappij, 99(4), 389–393. https://doi.org/10.5117/MEM2024.4.006.BEL

de Bel, V., & van Duijn, M. A. J. (2024). Collecting Multi-Actor Family Network Data. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10040

Steinbach, A., Augustijn, L., & de Bel, V. (2024). The quality of the stepfather–child relationship in sole and joint physical custody. Family Relations, March, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.13056

de Bel, V., & Widmer, E. D. (2024). Positive, negative, and ambivalent dyads and triads with family and friends: A personal network study on how they are associated with young adults’ well-being. Social Networks, 78, 184–202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.02.004

Giradin, M., Widmer, E., Ganjour, O., Zufferey, M., de Bel, V., Huri, S., & Tettamanti, M. (2024). Une refamilialisation du social dans la crise sanitaire de COVID-19 ? Éléments d’interprétation issus d’une revue de presse de mars à juin 2020 dans plusieurs pays européens. In Sociograph – Sociological Research Studies (Vol. 65). [download]

de Bel, V. (2023). Multi-functional ties and well-being in family networks before and after parental divorce. Social Sciences, 12(11), 586. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12110586

de Bel, V., Snijders, T. A. B., & Widmer, E. D. (2021). Modelling ambivalent triads in family research. Social Science Research, 98(102577). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102577

de Bel, V. and Widmer, E.D. (2021). Nuclear Family. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, G. Ritzer (Ed.). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos1767

de Bel, V. (2020). Kringen in de vijver van het familienetwerk. Sociologie Magazine, 28(3), 30–31.

de Bel, V. (2020). The ripple effect in family networks. Relational structures and well-being in divorced and non-divorced families [University of Groningen]. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.126812050

Widmer, E. D., de Bel, V., Ganjour, O., Girardin, M., & Zufferey, M.-E. (2020). Dynamiques familiales et COVID-19: Réactions à la période de confinement. In F. Gamba, M. Nardone, T. Ricciardi, & S.
Cattacin (Eds.), COVID-19: Le regard des sciences social (pp. 159–177). Seismo.
https://doi.org/10.33058/seismo.20735 [Original publication in French, translations published in German and Italian]

de Bel, V., & Van Gasse, D. (2020). Knotting the safety net. A multi-actor family network approach in divorce research. In D. Mortelmans (Ed.), Divorce in Europe. New insights in trends, causes and
consequences of relation break-ups. (1st ed., p. 357). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25838-2

de Bel, V., Kalmijn, M., & van Duijn, M. A. J. (2019). Balance in family triads: How intergenerational relationships affect the adult sibling relationship. Journal of Family Issues, 40(18), 2707–2727. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19860181

Spiegel, T., de Bel, V., & Steverink, N. (2016). Keeping up appearances: The role of identity concealment in the workplace among adults with degenerative eye conditions and its relationship with wellbeing and career outcomes. Disability and Rehabilitation, 38(7), 627–636. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2015.1055378