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Erik Hurst, an economist at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, said in an interview, that all time away from work is not equal. If one spends their off-hours cooking, Professor Hurst suggested that when they get richer, they can buy a microwave or order takeout. That seems to be what has happened over the last few decades. Using several different definitions of leisure, Professor Hurst and Mark A. Aguiar, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, analyzed time-use surveys done from 1965 to 2003.