1. Thornton, A. (under review) Assessing the quality of household headship rates in the 2022 South African Census.
2. Kerr, A., Thornton, A. and Wachira, P. (accepted) How many people are employed in South Africa? Accepted for publication by South African Journal of Economics.
3. Mosomi, J. and Thornton, A. (2026) Childcare and Labor Market Trajectories by Gender During the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa. Feminist Economics: 1-40. DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2026.2628782.
4. Thornton, A. (2023). Trends in household formation and living alone in South Africa, 1995-2011. Development Southern Africa. Vol. 41 (2): 243-275. DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2023.2243971.
5. Thornton, A. (2023). Leaving the parental home in post-apartheid South Africa. Population, Space and Place. Vol. 29(8). DOI: 10.1002/psp.2698.
6. Thornton, A., Bhorat, B., Lilenstein, A, Monnakgotla, J. and van der Zee, K. (2022) Crime, income and inequality: non-linearities under extreme inequality in South Africa. Economic Development and Cultural Change. Vol. 72(1). DOI: 10.1086/719646.
7. Thornton, A., and Wittenberg, M. (2022) Reweighting the OHS and GHS to improve data quality: representativeness, household counts, and small households. South African Journal of Economics. Vol. 90(4): 513-534. DOI: 10.1111/saje.12319.
8. Bhorat, H., Kanbur, R., Stanwix, B. and Thornton, A. (2020) Measuring Multi-Dimensional Labour Law Violation with an Application to South Africa. British Journal of Industrial Relations. Vol. 59(3): 928-961. DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12580.
9. Fleisch, B., Schöer, Roberts, G. and Thornton, A. (2016) System-wide improvement of early-grade mathematics: New evidence from the Gauteng Primary Language and Mathematics Strategy. International Journal of Educational Development. Vol. 49: 157-174.