% ============================================================================ % UQO Working Paper 42 — JOURNAL-LENGTH VERSION (Agent H) % Preamble copied from ../manuscript/main.tex (same packages and macros). % Every number in sections/*.tex carries a LaTeX comment naming its source % file under ../analysis/, ../docs/ or ../protocol/. % ============================================================================ \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article} % --- Encoding & Language --- \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2212}{--} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2192}{$\rightarrow$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2265}{$\geq$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2264}{$\leq$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00D7}{$\times$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2026}{\ldots} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2248}{$\approx$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{03B2}{$\beta$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{03C4}{$\tau$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{0394}{$\Delta$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{03B1}{$\alpha$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{03C1}{$\rho$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{03C3}{$\sigma$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{0398}{$\Theta$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2208}{$\in$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2227}{$\wedge$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00B2}{$^2$} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2713}{yes} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2714}{yes} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2011}{-} \usepackage[english]{babel} % --- Page Layout --- \usepackage[ letterpaper, top=1in, bottom=1in, left=1in, right=1in ]{geometry} % --- Typography --- \usepackage{mathptmx} % Times-like font (text + math) \usepackage{microtype} % Improved typographic refinements \usepackage{setspace} \onehalfspacing % 1.5 line spacing % --- Math --- \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm} % --- Tables --- \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{threeparttable} \usepackage{siunitx} \sisetup{ input-symbols = {()}, table-format = -1.3, parse-numbers = false } % --- Figures --- \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{subcaption} \usepackage{algorithm} \usepackage{algpseudocode} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{adjustbox} \usepackage{fvextra} \usepackage{float} % --- Colors & Links --- \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage[ colorlinks = true, linkcolor = NavyBlue, citecolor = NavyBlue, urlcolor = NavyBlue, breaklinks = true ]{hyperref} % --- Bibliography --- \usepackage[authoryear,round,semicolon]{natbib} \bibliographystyle{aer} % --- Captions --- \usepackage[ font = small, labelfont = bf, labelsep = period, justification = justified, singlelinecheck = false ]{caption} % --- Headers & Footers --- \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} % --- Section Formatting --- \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries}{\thesection.}{0.5em}{} \titleformat{\subsection}{\normalsize\bfseries}{\thesubsection.}{0.5em}{} \titleformat{\subsubsection}{\normalsize\itshape}{\thesubsubsection.}{0.5em}{} % --- Appendix Support --- \usepackage[toc,page]{appendix} % --- Misc --- \setlength{\emergencystretch}{1.5em} \usepackage{enumitem} \setlist{nosep,leftmargin=*} % --- Theorem environments (as in the monograph's Section 3) --- \newtheorem{proposition}{Proposition} \theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{definition}{Definition} \newtheorem{assumption}{Assumption} % ============================================================================ % METADATA — journal version of WP42 % ============================================================================ \newcommand{\WPnumber}{42} \newcommand{\WPtitle}{The Autonomous White-Collar Worker: A Randomised Tool-Access Experiment on Claude Code Across Ten Occupations} \newcommand{\WPsubtitle}{Journal version of UQO Working Paper No.~42} \newcommand{\WPauthor}{Simon-Pierre Boucher} \newcommand{\WPaffiliation}{Département des sciences administratives, Université du Québec en Outaouais} \newcommand{\WPemail}{simon-pierre.boucher@uqo.ca} \newcommand{\WPaddress}{283, boulevard Alexandre-Taché, Gatineau (Québec) J8X 3X7, Canada} \newcommand{\WPdate}{November 2026} \newcommand{\WPversion}{1.0} \newcommand{\WPabstract}{\input{sections/abstract}} \newcommand{\WPkeywords}{autonomous agents; computer-use agents; Claude Code; task-based automation; labor economics; experimental economics; benchmarks; reliability; cost-effectiveness} \newcommand{\WPjel}{C93; J24; O33; L86; M15; C88} \graphicspath{{../analysis/figures/out/}{../manuscript/figures/}} \begin{document} \input{sections/titlepage} \input{sections/introduction} \input{sections/framework} \input{sections/benchmark} \input{sections/design} \input{sections/results} \input{sections/discussion} \input{sections/conclusion} \input{sections/appendix_pointer} \clearpage \bibliography{../literature/references} \end{document}