Description
In this Behavioral Insights for Government (BIG) presentation, Eileen Chou reviews her research on the role of signatures in public policy. She examines the possibility that e-signatures do not exert the same symbolic weight for people's behavior, exposing a potentially critical, and largely overlooked, problem in public policy uses of e-signatures. Chou provides evidence that different types of e-signatures have different effects on curbing dishonest behaviors and securing prosocial commitments.