Using the U. S. Survey of Food Intake of Individuals (CSFII) and the National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS), Aguiar and Hurst (2005) estimate the effects of unemployment or retirement status on food expenditure and on time spent on home production and consumption. [...] These demographic characteristics are: age of the head of the household, sex of the head of the household, their education level, marital status, household size, and a dummy variable for having kids under 15 years of age. [...] The public-use datasets comprise two main files: the summary household file and the detailed 4 The price of food is not reported in the sample. [...] In order to correct for this bias we re-weight the calorie/nutrient intake of food “at home” purchases by the inverse of their share in the total number of meals. [...] The second column of the table looks at the consumption of food at home only.