Research

Saied Toossi. 2024. "The effect of universal free school meals on children’s food hardship." Food Policy, 124: 102606.

Saied Toossi. 2023. "The Distribution of and Access to Free Meal Sites Serving School Aged Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Texas." Journal of School Health, 93(5): 395-401.

Saied Toossi. 2022. "Think of the Children? The Effect of Children on Support for Welfare." Public Opinion Quarterly, 86(1): 176–190.

Saied Toossi and Pengju Zhang. 2019. “Video Gambling Adoption and Tax Revenues: Evidence from Illinois.” Public Budgeting & Finance, 39(1): 67-88.

Saied Toossi. 2017. “Incentivizing healthy eating in children: An investigation of the “ripple” and “temporal” effects of a reward-based intervention.” Appetite, 117(1): 58-66.

Leslie Hodges, Saied Toossi, Jessica E. Todd, and Cayley Ryan-Claytor. 2024. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, infants, and Children (WIC): Background, trends, and economic issues, 2024 edition. EIB-267, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Katherine Baldwin, Brian Williams, Christopher Sichko, Francis Tsiboe, Saied Toossi, Jordan W. Jones, Dylan Turner, and Sharon Raszap Skorbiansky. 2023. U.S. Agricultural Policy Review, 2022. EIB-260, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Saied Toossi. 2023. Cost of School Meals and Households’ Difficulty Paying for Expenses: Evidence From the Household Pulse Survey. EB-37, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Saied Toossi and Jordan W. Jones. 2023. The Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape: Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report. EIB-255, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Katherine Baldwin, Brian Williams, Francis Tsiboe, Anne Effland, Dylan Turner, Bryan Pratt, Jordan W. Jones, Saied Toossi, and Leslie Hodges. 2023. U.S. Agricultural Policy Review, 2021. EIB-254, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Jordan W. Jones, Saied Toossi, and Leslie Hodges. 2022. The Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape: Fiscal Year 2021 Annual Report, EIB-237, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Saied Toossi, Jordan W. Jones, and Leslie Hodges. 2021. The Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape: Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report, EIB-227, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Saied Toossi. 2023. "One-Third of Households With Children Paying for School Meals Reported That Doing So Contributed to Financial Hardship." Amber Waves, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Jordan W. Jones and Saied Toossi. 2023. "U.S. Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs Continued To Respond to Economic and Public Health Conditions in Fiscal Year 2022." Amber Waves, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Saied Toossi, Jordan W. Jones, and Leslie Hodges. 2022. "Pandemic-Related Program Changes Continued to Shape the U.S. Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape in Fiscal Year 2021." Amber Waves, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Saied Toossi. 2021. "Free Meal Sites Expanded Rapidly To Provide Meals to Children During the Early Months of the Pandemic." Amber Waves, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Leslie Hodges, Jordan W. Jones, and Saied Toossi. 2021. "Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Transformed the U.S. Federal Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape." Amber Waves, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Saied Toossi, Juliana Cohen, Joseph Clift, Lindsey Turner, Wendi Gosliner, and Marlene Schwartz. 2023. "School Food Case Study: United States of America." London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 

Saied Toossi. 2021. "COVID-19 Working Paper: Filling the Pandemic Meal Gap: Disruptions to Child Nutrition Programs and Expansion of Free Meal Sites in the Early Months of the Pandemic." AP-093, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Sabrina K. Young, Saied Toossi, Jordan W. Jones, Alicia Atwood, Joanna Buscemi, and Marian L. Fitzgibbon. 2020. "SBM Recommends Increased Access To Federal Food Assistance During And After The Covid-19 Pandemic." Position Statement, Society of Behavioral Medicine.