Lara Sarcinella is an interdisciplinary PhD student at the University of Antwerp. She is a member of the Department of Socio-Economic Sciences (SEW) and the Department of History, where she is affiliated with the Social History of Finance (SoHiFin) research group. Her research focuses on the financial impact of the Dutch welfare state on income inequality and poverty in the post-war period. Prior to this, she obtained master’s degrees in Applied Economic Sciences at the VUB and in Conflict & Development Studies at Ghent University.