- Mosomi, J. and Thornton, A. (accepted 2023) Childcare and labour market trajectories by gender during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. Accepted for publication by Feminist Economics.
- 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.
- Thornton, A. (2023). Leaving the parental home in post-apartheid South Africa. Population, Space and Place. Vol. 29(8). DOI: 10.1002/psp.2698.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.