Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija

Bureaucracy and Burden: Understanding Take-up of a Need-Based Financial Aid Program

Elizabeth Burland, Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija, Kelcie Ferrara-Gerson, Xavier Fields, Katherine Michelmore, Nathan Sotherland, Kevin Stange, Marissa Thompson, Megan Tompkins-Stange. September 2025

Topics: Policy, Politics, and Governance

Tags: Higher education

Social welfare programs, including college financial aid, often only reach a fraction of eligible beneficiaries. We examine this problem through the lens of Michigan’s Tuition Incentive Program (TIP), a state need-based grant aid program. We conduct a large-scale mixed-methods study using data… more →
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Forging a path to college persistence: An experimental evaluation of the Detroit Promise Path program

Stacey L. Brockman, Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija, Alyssa Ratledge, Rebekah O’Donoghue, Micah Y. Baum, Brian A. Jacob. March 2023

Topics: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary

Tags: Higher education, Equity, Student supports

Detroit students who obtain a college degree overcome many obstacles to do so. This paper reports the results of a randomized evaluation of a program meant to provide support to low-income community college students. The Detroit Promise Path (DPP) program was designed to complement an existing… more →
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