My Research

All of my research can be downloaded from my SSRN author page HERE.


REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (reverse chronological)

  1. Thornton, J. (2022) Fiscal Shocks and Nonprofit Employment. Applied Economics. Forthcoming.

  2. Thornton, J. & Lecy, J. (2022) Are federal grants harmful to nonprofit financial health? Claims versus evidence. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, forthcoming.

  3. Kuan, J. & Thornton, J. (2021) Nonprofits as Multi-Sided Platforms. Academy of Management Review. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2019.0216

  4. Harrison, T. & Thornton, J. (2021) Further Evidence on Competition in Nonprofit Donor Markets. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640211057394 .

  5. Thornton, J. & Lecy, J. (2019) Good Enough for Government Work? An Incomplete Contracts Approach to the Use of Nonprofits in U.S. Federal Procurement. Nonprofit Policy Forum. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2019-0037

  6. Thornton, J.; Stokes, C.; McCarty, S. (2019) Religious Observance and Intertemporal Choice. Religion and Education. in press. https://doi.org/10.1080/15507394.2019.1643216

  7. Thornton, Jeremy & King, David. (2017) Financing Social Enterprise in the very long run. ACRN Oxford Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives 6.3 - Special Issue FRAM/SSFII: 29-70. http://www.acrn-journals.eu/resources/jofrp0603c.pdf

  8. Gayle, P.; Harrison, T; & Thornton, J. (2017) Entry, Donor Market Size, and Competitive Conduct among Nonprofits. International Journal of Industrial Organization. (50), 294-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2016.10.003

  9. Thornton, J; McCarty, S; & Stokes, C. (2017) Divine Restraint: An Experimental Analysis of Religious Preference and Intertemporal Discounting. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (67), 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2016.12.002

  10. Lecy, J. & Thornton, J.(2016) What Big Data Can Tell Us About Government Grants to the Nonprofit Sector: Using the FAADS. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 45(5), 1052-1069. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764015620902

  11. Thornton, J., Lohrke, F., Gonas, J.(2015). The Social Entrepreneur as Trailblazer - A Role for the Social Enterprise in a Market Economy. ACRN Oxford Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives, 4(4). 145-167. http://www.acrn-journals.eu/resources/jfrp0404i.pdf

  12. Harrison, T. & Thornton, J. (2014). Too Many Nonprofits? An Empirical Approach to Estimating Trends in Nonprofit Demand Density. Nonprofit Policy Forum. 5(2), 213-229. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2014-0009

  13. Thornton, J. (2014). Flypaper Nonprofits: Federal Grants and Nonprofit Expenditures, Public Finance Review. 42(2), 176-198. https://doi.org/10.1177/1091142112446845

  14. Broom, L.; Thornton, J & Carson, C. (2013). Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations: Uses and Applications in a Social Entrepreneurship Curriculum. Journal of Learning in Higher Education, (Fall), 49-60. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1144104

  15. Helms, S.; Scott, B. & Thornton, J. (2013). New Experimental Evidence on Charitable Gift Restrictions and Donor Behaviour. Applied Economic Letters, 20(17), pp. 1521-1526.https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2013.829172

  16. Thornton, J. & Helms, S. (2013). Afterlife Incentives in Charitable Giving, Applied Economics, 45(19), 2779-2791. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2012.678984

  17. Helms, S. & Thornton, J. (2012). The Influence of Religiosity on Charitable Behavior: A COPPS Investigation, Journal of Socio-Economics, 41 (4), 373-383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2012.04.003

  18. Helms, S.; Scott, B. & Thornton, J. (2012). Choosing to Give More: Experimental Evidence on Restricted Gifts and Charitable Behavior. Applied Economic Letters, 19 (8), 745-748. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2011.599784

  19. Thornton, J. & Cave, L. (2010). The Effects of Organizational Form in the Mixed Market for Foster Care. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics , 81(2), 211-245. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.2010.00410.x

  20. Thornton, J. (2010). Explaining Unrestricted Giving by Charitable Foundations: A Transaction Cost Approach. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28(1), 44-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2009.06.001

  21. Thornton, J., & Belski, W. (2010). Financial Reporting Quality and Price Competition Among Nonprofit Firms. Applied Economics, 42, 2699-2713. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840801964583

  22. Castaneda, M., Garen, J., & Thornton, J. (2008). Competition, Contractibility and the Market for Donors to Nonprofits. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 24 (1), 215-246. https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewm036

  23. Childs, B., Gonas, J., & Thornton, J. (2008). Are Donor Advised Funds Always the Best Economic Choice. Journal of Financial Planning (June).

  24. Thornton, P., & Thornton, J. (2008). Why They Don't Go: Surveying the next Generation of Mission Workers. EMQ (April), 204-210.

  25. Thornton, J. (2006). Nonprofit Fund Raising in Competitive Donor Markets. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 35 (2), 204-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764005285951

  26. Thornton, J., & Thornton, P. (2006). Agency Incentives in International Development Partnerships. Faith & Economics , 46/47 (Spring/Fall), 1-24.


WORKING PAPERS

  1. Thornton, J & Kuan, J. “Less than Zero: A positive theory of negative prices in the nonprofit sector”