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This paper studies a new program designed to make food entitlements portable throughout
India. We first characterize the state of food entitlement portability using mystery
shoppers and surveys of migrants and distributors. We then inform households about
the program, and barriers to using it, through a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Treatment impacts on beliefs about entitlement portability were initially positive, but
later turned negative following a general rise in beliefs. These patterns are consistent
with our experiment increasing awareness of the program but decreasing trust in its
implementation. Migration to cities decreased, suggesting that access to food affects
migrants鈥� destination choices.
