I am a Research Associate at J-PAL Global and the MIT Economics Department, working with Professors Ben Olken (MIT), Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School), and coauthors. My projects at work broadly fall into two categories: evaluating the impacts of social protection programs in South & Southeast Asia, and estimating the consequences of environmental damages. Since starting in August 2024, I have trained computer vision algorithms on property images from Pakistan, analyzed a tax administration RCT in Jakarta, and simulated nature with counterfactual temperature distributions and atmospheric models. My J-PAL page is here.
My personal research agenda centers around international migration and supporting those who live across borders, geographic or otherwise. Please see my ongoing projects here.
After a brief COVID stint at the University of Tokyo, I received a scholarship from the Grew Bancroft Foundation to attend Amherst College starting in August 2020. I graduated in May 2024 with a double major in economics and sociology. Occasionally I am a photographer; some selected images are here.
Please feel free to email me at hnakazawa@povertyactionlab.org. You can access my CV here.