Systematic Literature Review on Remittance Costs 2015-2025

Systematic literature review of academic papers on remittance costs, compiled from queries run on Ideas-RePec, EconLit, Web of Science, and Scopus databases. The review covers articles published in English from 2015 to 2025, filtered by accessibility, and uses a multi-dimensional framework for analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyze publication trends over the 2015-2025 time range to identify shifts in remittance cost research focus.
• Synthesize findings using the described multi-dimensional framework to map theoretical approaches to remittance costs.
• Extract and categorize key terms like 'Remittance Cost*' and 'Cost* of Sending Remittance' from the literature corpus for thematic analysis.
• Compare the coverage and results of queries across the four specified academic databases (Ideas-RePec, EconLit, Web of Science, Scopus).

Strengths

• Systematic review methodology applied across four major academic databases (Ideas-RePec, EconLit, Web of Science, Scopus).
• Explicit temporal coverage of literature from 2015 to 2025.
• Uses a defined multi-dimensional analysis framework (METRICS) for data synthesis.

Limitations

• Sample size and specific row/column counts are unknown, limiting quantitative assessment.
• Limited to English-language publications and filtered by accessibility, which may introduce language and publication bias.
• The dataset represents a literature review, not primary remittance transaction data.

Provenance

Source

ICPSR Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Systematic literature review using defined search queries on Ideas-RePec, EconLit, Web of Science, and Scopus databases, synthesized with the METRICS framework.

Time Range

2015 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-23, based on queries run in November 2025.

Geography

Global