Education as Public Good or Private Resource:

Driving a career in Tehran: Experiences of female internet taxi drivers

“…During university years, they typically stay with and are funded by their parents unless they need to move to another city to study, in which case most parents fund their housing and other costs as well as the university costs. Unfortunately, to some extent, this trend has led to credentialism or over emphasis on academic or other formal qualifications by employers and ordinary Iranians (Malekzadeh, 2015).…”